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The Siren Depths
by Martha Wells
Moon is reunited with his birth colony and discovers its unusually close ties to the Fell. This is the first book in the series which I've sincerely enjoyed, as opposed to picking favorite parts from a just-okay whole. By now I've grown invested in the cast, particularly in the intimacies that surround Moon. Raksuran social dynamics can still be tedious, like the bickering among queens and the realistic but still frustrating tendency towards poor communication--but this feels increasingly like a convincing non-human culture, particularly in its sexual politics, with its own prejudices and unwritten rules. This book also does much to complicate the Fell, and Raksuran/Fell relations and history; it's a necessary antidote to the limitations of the first book, more ambiguous, more nuanced. The plot still is just okay--Wells has a great mind for setpieces and as always depicts exhaustion particularly well, but the end is unbalanced and underexplored. But perhaps my central complaint is that I wanted to keep reading--I'm settled into the world and series, now, and didn't want the book to end.