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hypatia13 's review for:
The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
This was excellent. The story was very well done, the characters were excellent, and it was both heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny. The author does a very good job of imagining a realistic first contact scenario, and also exploring issues of faith, belief, and free will. I liked this enough that I probably won't read the sequel - I don't think there's any way it can live up.