Loved itI love the character work in this one and especially I do put this book at the rank that I do because of the fact that I lean into really seeing myself in the character of Nicole
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The Relentless Moon (2020)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive It's 1963, and riots and sabotage plague the space program. The climate change caused by the Meteor is becoming more and more clear, but tensions are rising, and the IAC's goal of getting humanity off Earth is threatened. Astronaut Nicole Wargin lives two lives; one as a politician's wife on Earth, and the other as an astronaut on the newly-established Moon Base. But when sabotage strikes, she finds that her two worlds are colliding - with deadly consequences.
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- 9781713577447
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- 384 pages
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Loved it
Loved itThis is a book that I found initially kind of slow and challenging to get into and it turned into a really interesting experience where I felt like I love the story I love this world this alternate history. This is the kind of science fiction I love but I was like interrogating my own experience reacting to the main character throughout the whole story cuz I tend to find this main character unlikeable but this was such a good example of a book where the unlikeable character makes it more interesting in a way. Anyway I'm always going to love the Lady Astronaut novels and this is another one where Kowal just knocked it out of the park.