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But unfortunately, I feel like this book is reminding me why I don't read a lot of fantasy because I just don't really care. I'm just not really invested in anything that's happening.

I'm glad that I finally read it, though, because I feel like I've been hearing about this book for such a long time, and I feel like this author is really talented when it comes to the writing style, and I really felt like I knew these characters while I was reading. I agree with this blurb on the back that describes this book as being funny and horrifying, brilliant and riveting.

But I feel like for most of this, I was really struggling with the pacing of the story. You know, I really loved the idea of this book having this romantic storyline with this character named Caleb, but I don't think I ever felt fully invested in the romance the way that I wanted to be.

Like this book has amazing characters that you actually care about, you know, because I feel like that was my one flaw with Orbital was that it's a really gorgeously written book, but I never felt like I got to know any of the astronauts. And I think because of that, like that's what held me back from wanting to give that book five stars because as gorgeous as the writing was in Orbital, like I really wanted to like feel more attached to the characters.

But I love this book for so many reasons. I think not only was it such beautiful, you know, like commentary about grief and like going through hard things. This book just felt so human to me.

This is such a well-crafted and perfect sci-fi novela. This one is taking place in the future and we're following this crew of astronauts.

I loved both Abigail and Erica as characters, and I actually really liked the exploration of their kind of like complicated relationship. I do see a lot of the negative reviews talking about this book saying that the relationship between Erica and Abigail can be like inappropriate at times, which I do agree that like sometimes their relationship does like push the boundaries of what's appropriate for like a teacher student relationship. But I actually think that's part of what made this book so interesting and so thoughtprovoking.