mind is: blown. I felt like I was constantly trying to figure every character out but also I was just in for the ride.

I have to say that while I hated Aurora Rising, this book was a lot more immersive and has better writing in general (how are they written by the same people??) And the audiobook performance really is A+

If you like fast-paced, tense, emotional, and thought-provoking sci fi stories with strong themes about familial/platonic/romantic love, you will enjoy this.

“It’s not the bullets that kill you. It’s moments like these. One piece at a time.”

— overall thoughts: 4.5 —

It’s written like Daisy Jones & The Six for the first part: through a series of interviews about something that happened; then shifts to the present and everything gets wild. Literally one after another.

There’s humor and a romance… that I didn’t hate it…. I actually shipped them whoops

The world building is more structured and more descriptive that Aurora Rising. It didn’t feel like i was expected to know everything that was going on. It just felt like I had to piece together a puzzle.

Someone please tell me if Aurora Rising and this series are related or they just both call humans(?) Terran.

“Perhaps bravery is the face humanity wraps around its collective madness.”

The fact that katie and ezra had such a well established chemistry even though they were not even physically together for most of the story completely blew me away. I was so invested in their relationship. I think the reason that I didn’t feel like it was some kind of insta-love was because we knew that they already met before chaos happened.

It’s thought provoking. Especially since we have an A.I. character somewhere. Ethical concerns are put into play with the chaos that’s always heartbreaking interesting to read.

And even though not much history for each character is given and we’re mostly just living in the moment chaos, I was too engrossed by their dynamics and the fast paced plot. Not to mention the unique writing style that lived up to my expectations and more.

I probably would not have enjoyed this as much if I read it fully with my eyeballs (physical or ebook) because the audiobook really just is a whole experience. Highly recommend the audiobook.

I stayed up until 4am to finish this and I’m just happy that this was more than some teenage space love affair.



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PRE READ:

I literally just removed this from my TBR pile but after listening to a sample of the audiobook I don't think I can pass it up XD might read it just because of the production