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The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

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Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i really enjoyed this one!
took me a while to get through because it was one of my camp reads but i was actively excited to get back to it when i had a chance.
super interesting world, setting and plot. it felt realistic but also really enjoyably scifi-y. i wish i got a little more explanation on why the world was so destroyed and what specifically happened to her family, but i get that it wasn't really the focus of the book (they literally left earth behind both figuratively and literally). 
both the school and the ship were so fleshed out and had such interesting concepts that i almost wanted a separate book about each, but i felt like balancing the two between flashbacks and current day served the story as it exists very well. 
the mystery on the ship was tense and exciting to see progress right up until the end when the perpetrator is revealed which i felt was a little iffy. it didnt really make sense to me for it to be her and i felt like there weren't really any clues, but it could have been because of how chopped up my reading of this was, i tended to forget some details. 
emotionally touching and really sweet.
i looooveee sentient ai so that always gains points for me.
i am obsessed with the diversity especially with the ease it's handled with. this is a world that feels so chill around lgbtq people while still having relevant and realistic issues remaining with gender in a wider sense (men vs women on the mission) as well as race somewhat (though it was competition between countries more than it was actual racism for the most part, although that is touched on too)
generally loved the world and characters but the plot and ending were a teensy bit weak. 

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Beautiful and painful - a space murder mystery, but also a reflection on time, relationship, purpose and hope. 
I cried like 4 times

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This book is like A Long Way From A Small Angry Planet had a child with Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. Novel blend of whodunnit with serious novel and hard science fiction. Especially love that there are no men on this 80 person story. Really helps the plot shine — and I’d never before considered that bc people assigned male at birth can’t carry children, they debatably need not have a place on deep space missions. I will be following this author closely!

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Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
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The main character annoyed me, as did the allusions to racism and fascism and eugenics with no real intent to explore. Asuka is entirely irritating, again. Matter of fact, at one point she effectively co-signs eugenics talk by describing a character as “born for their intellect at this moment in time.” The plot is water-thin, and see through as a mystery.

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Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 There were a lot of things this book did that were interesting.  It contained a cast of characters that were all designated female at birth in a spaceship headed toward Planet X. I could only count four male characters in the novel, the main character’s father and brother, a random guy at a party, and a crew member.  No one was physically described. The novel had a lot to say about technology and politics. It was the technology that most interested me.  It had the potential to be a truly horrifying novel.  It wasn’t.  It was boring.  The flashbacks were the worst and didn’t add a lot of context to the current timeline.   I never connected to any of the characters, the only ones I could differentiate were Ruth and Micky and that was primarily because I didn’t like them.  The science was hazy.  The current timeline was fuzzy.  The timeline post-explosion was clear and broken up by shift, but how long had they been awake? The fact that they were all being artificially inseminated was an odd detail that was never fully explained.   Also, I wish the characters just had been identified primarily by one name.  It was confusing that they had first names, last names, and nicknames that were not derived from either. That probably would have been less of a problem if there hadn’t been so many characters that did not have distinct characteristics. 


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A Murder mystery in space- really enjoyed this, appreciated the lovable characters and speculative political elements resulting from (presumed) environmental catastrophe woven into the background. I appreciated the tidy ending, as it’s not something I get with a lot of what I’ve been reading recently. Highly recommend to anyone who enjoys a good mystery (sans the copaganda that plagues the genre) 

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