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I had a hard time getting into this one. Like all my reading in early January, I read it in fits and starts, which didn't help. But I also found it just not as compelling. It has the exact same plot as the first book in the series: Find answers and escape. But instead of a terrifying uninhabitable planet stalked by an unknown danger that takes over the minds of your own crewmates, our protagonists are being held captive on a military spaceship and being studied. The answers searched for were less about what is happening and more about their captors' plans so they can escape. The weird stuff happening to their bodies was just kind of accepted as cool new stuff they could do, with no concern or even curiosity about it. There was a political angle with a separatist faction seeming like it would become a driving force. And there was zero horror, space or otherwise. It was just overall unexciting and I didn't feel like bothering to continue.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Kidnapping, Confinement, Death, Violence, and Medical content
Minor: Terminal illness and Excrement
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