A review by emmalong
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

3.0

this one was good, but not great. i gave the first two books in this series five stars so this took me by surprise. i think we were following WAY too many characters here. i understood the reason, really dive into life on the Fleet and the Exodan way (humans coming from Earth and living elsewhere in the universe) but it was spread too thin on too many POVs. the parts where Chambers touched on how humans feel about their home planet were really endearing and encompassed so many feelings that i think would be super accurate if it were our reality now. overall, none of the characters really stuck with me and i feel like this book could've covered some of the characters we already knew, rather than introducing so many new ones and then not exploring them deliberately enough. just okay, but i'm excited to read the last book in the series!