A review by dejahentendu
Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

First contact! Conspiracies, government agents, conspiracy theories, warring alien factions - this book has them all in spades. And yet, the story almost seems languid for much of it. This was not a drawback for me. I liked the slow burn for much of the novel, with the reveals coming slowly. The main focus was on how completely disparate life forms and societies would interact. Where would we understand each other,  and where would we be horrified. Quite nicely done. 

The narrator was mostly quite good, but overdid it a few times. 

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