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Far from the Light of Heaven
by Tade Thompson
Finishing its ten year voyage, the colony ship Ragtime arrives at the colony planet Bloodroot, but when the Captain wakes from hypersleep, she finds some of her passengers dead and the ship AI unhelpful. Bloodroot sends her an investigator to help, and working together they try to find the culprit. What they find is weirder and more far-reaching than either of them could have imagined.
This was a really interesting mystery/thriller/space opera. It starts off as pure mystery, then is very definitely a ticking-clock thriller, all with lots of space opera. It starts off really strong, but then as things get explained and connecting stuff happens in other places, it peters off and stuff just ends abruptly. The ending has a lot of “and this happened” with very little explanation or development, and feels very unsatisfactory. I feel like things needed to be fleshed out a bit at the end, just so it’s not so abrupt and jumpy. Still, a really strong start and interesting world-building, so still going to give it 4 stars.
This was a really interesting mystery/thriller/space opera. It starts off as pure mystery, then is very definitely a ticking-clock thriller, all with lots of space opera. It starts off really strong, but then as things get explained and connecting stuff happens in other places, it peters off and stuff just ends abruptly. The ending has a lot of “and this happened” with very little explanation or development, and feels very unsatisfactory. I feel like things needed to be fleshed out a bit at the end, just so it’s not so abrupt and jumpy. Still, a really strong start and interesting world-building, so still going to give it 4 stars.