Excellent read!

I enjoyed the story and the characters … and the bird vignettes which I realized were clues but never appreciated until the big reveal. Thanks!

What I like about this book is that it’s about so many things. I’ll let you discover almost all of them, but the one theme that stands out the most is despair versus hope. It’s in so much of the story, whether Asuka’s heroic efforts in training, in the crew’s struggle to fix their ship’s course, or if Earth’s humans will even survive. Kitasei’s story starts with Asuka surviving a disaster and ends with her hoping she has averted one. Just uplifting and thrilling and emotional all at the same time.