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A review by inuyasha
First Cosmic Velocity by Zach Powers
3.0
"i now know that leaving one place is not the same thing as returning to another."
more like 3.5 stars, i think. i'm still digesting. firstly, i have no idea who wrote any of the copywrite for this book - both the book jacket description and goodreads come across as wildly sensationalist and very pulp, which is not... this book at all. in fact, the whole thing about "twins not existing anymore" is never even mentioned in the text - very strange! this feels more contemporary fiction than historical or lit, but the marketing definitely doesn't reflect that.
maybe this isn't a great book, and maybe where powers decide to stay historically accurate and where he decides to fictionalize are odd, but this book is about loneliness - loneliness of duty, of family, of nationalism, of space. and it hit a weird spot for me, two weeks into quarantine, two weeks since i've left my house for anything. the mad, itching insanity of the younger leonid in space felt eerily relatable at a certain point. (also, a huge part of this book is about a character's relationship to a dog, and how they find their humanity through that connection, and i just adopted a rescue two weeks ago. like i said, maybe not a fantastic book, but it hit weird and personal and just right for me right now.)
more like 3.5 stars, i think. i'm still digesting. firstly, i have no idea who wrote any of the copywrite for this book - both the book jacket description and goodreads come across as wildly sensationalist and very pulp, which is not... this book at all. in fact, the whole thing about "twins not existing anymore" is never even mentioned in the text - very strange! this feels more contemporary fiction than historical or lit, but the marketing definitely doesn't reflect that.
maybe this isn't a great book, and maybe where powers decide to stay historically accurate and where he decides to fictionalize are odd, but this book is about loneliness - loneliness of duty, of family, of nationalism, of space. and it hit a weird spot for me, two weeks into quarantine, two weeks since i've left my house for anything. the mad, itching insanity of the younger leonid in space felt eerily relatable at a certain point. (also, a huge part of this book is about a character's relationship to a dog, and how they find their humanity through that connection, and i just adopted a rescue two weeks ago. like i said, maybe not a fantastic book, but it hit weird and personal and just right for me right now.)