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Godfall
by Van Jensen
Godfall is a well-written scifi novel centered around David, a small-town sherrif who sees life suddenly change when an "asteroid" heading to Earth ends up being a gigantic (miles-long) dead alien. Naturally, when the alien crashes into his town, so, too, does the curious world, with reporters and the government racing to investigate this new development. This leaves David with a job more complicated than ever, doing his best to protect the "insiders" of the town from the changing culture as "outsiders" rush in.
There’s a lot going on in this book — a lone wolf small town cop, a religious end-of-times cult, a drug ring, murders, and of course let's not forget the alien body — and I was relieved that Van Jensen more or less pulls it all together in the end. I really appreciated David as a main character. He was somehow wholesome and deeply rooted in his community, and yet also a loner searching for his — and the town's — place in the world. His strict adherence to the idea of insiders vs outsiders in his town seemed characteristic of small-town life, as did the inevitable blind spots that rise up as a result. There are quite a few characters in the novel, and I did at times get a bit lost inside of them. I appreciated how this book navigated trans representation and various community reactions to it.
While this is a scifi book, it's heavily grounded in our typical world. I consider it light on the scifi themes and heavy on the character development and murder mystery. It will be a great choice for fans of serial killer thrillers and police procedurals.
There’s a lot going on in this book — a lone wolf small town cop, a religious end-of-times cult, a drug ring, murders, and of course let's not forget the alien body — and I was relieved that Van Jensen more or less pulls it all together in the end. I really appreciated David as a main character. He was somehow wholesome and deeply rooted in his community, and yet also a loner searching for his — and the town's — place in the world. His strict adherence to the idea of insiders vs outsiders in his town seemed characteristic of small-town life, as did the inevitable blind spots that rise up as a result. There are quite a few characters in the novel, and I did at times get a bit lost inside of them. I appreciated how this book navigated trans representation and various community reactions to it.
While this is a scifi book, it's heavily grounded in our typical world. I consider it light on the scifi themes and heavy on the character development and murder mystery. It will be a great choice for fans of serial killer thrillers and police procedurals.