A review by clarke
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

1.0

I nearly DNFed this book early on. It seems to sell itself as a positive book - with hope and found family. There is a little of that between the disjointed multiple narratives, but there is also transphobia, misgendering, violence, sexual assault and exploitation, racism and many other similar topics throughout the book. I didn't feel there was acceptance outside of most of the core characters who quite simply didn't really care about mundanities or things they considered trivial like gender. This book was trying to do too much with multiple storylines and I didn't care about any.
I still don't see the point of Lan Tran and her family's storyline or the scifi ascent at all other than a convenient escape from hell at the end or some handy technology? And just some casual murder? I don't get it
I found many of the chapters samey and this was a chore to read
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