A review by hivequeen
Planetfall by Emma Newman

4.0

This book was a 5 star until the end. Newman did such a great job of building everything up and making me want to know what the big secret was, then it was all just kind of anticlimactic. I don't think the ending was bad necessarily, it just felt sortof like a letdown. I'm not sure what would've satisfied me tho tbh.

Spoiler

I think the main problem for me wasn't what was in the final room of God's city, it was more that she built up this whole conflict with Sung-Soo and the others, and then just didn't really resolve it. Maybe the problem is that the whole ending felt unfinished, as if none of the narrative threads were really tied up. Maybe a few plot lines were ended, like Marco dying, but other than that it mostly felt like a cop out. I think I would've felt more satisfied with Renata's death if it didn't feel like the story was going a random direction when there was still action happening. Why put the attack on the colony in at all? It felt unnecessary and unfinished.

Despite all that, I still gave it 4 stars because I was hooked throughout most of it!