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Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis
It was okay.
+ I didn't love the direction this book went in. Plot-wise it was fine but character-wise... eh. That said I did like the ending enough that I will read the next book.
+ On the ending - I was glad that Cora and Ampersand were once again on the same page and back together; I liked his agreement to tell the truth; I was pleased that Nikola survived; I'm intrigued by their decision to attempt higher language; and I found them deciding to leave Earth interesting. The book left off at a point where I did want to see what would be next.
+ I liked Nikola. Everything about him worked for me.
+ I really liked the relationship between Nikola and Kaveh.
+ I liked Kaveh. He worked pretty well as a POV. I thought it was a good decision to end the book on his final article.
+ Cora... eh. This is not the direction I thought the character was going to go in and it frankly wasn't fun to read. I wanted her more involved, learning more, growing. Instead she gets trapped in her head, by her emotions and fear and PTSD, and falls apart. It wasn't badly done or anything, it just wasn't what I wanted or expected. Kaveh ends up getting more POV, more agency, more action and it annoyed me.
+ I also didn't like how Cora and Ampersand's relationship went. Again, as with Cora, it was believable enough but I wanted their bond to grow and we don't actually get that until the very end after a lot of angst and drama first.
+ Cora/Kayeh... it was there. Kind of side-eyeing him for starting a relationship with Cora when she clearly wasn't well.
+ The fact that Cora was able to quit and walk away from ROSA so easily felt off. I had a hard time believing that they'd let her just walk like that.
+ It bothered me that Nikola brought up the plan to take a bunch of genetic samples and them to a new world in another galaxy and Kaveh considered it, seriously considered to possibility, but never once in his consideration did he think "I can't abandon my family/friends to death" or to try and figure out how he could save others. He didn't even bring it up as an alternate plan! Sure, he eventually decided he couldn't go through with the plan in large part because of those he'd leave behind but it's weird that they weren't the first thing he thought of.
+ I didn't love the direction this book went in. Plot-wise it was fine but character-wise... eh. That said I did like the ending enough that I will read the next book.
+ On the ending - I was glad that Cora and Ampersand were once again on the same page and back together; I liked his agreement to tell the truth; I was pleased that Nikola survived; I'm intrigued by their decision to attempt higher language; and I found them deciding to leave Earth interesting. The book left off at a point where I did want to see what would be next.
+ I liked Nikola. Everything about him worked for me.
+ I really liked the relationship between Nikola and Kaveh.
+ I liked Kaveh. He worked pretty well as a POV. I thought it was a good decision to end the book on his final article.
+ Cora... eh. This is not the direction I thought the character was going to go in and it frankly wasn't fun to read. I wanted her more involved, learning more, growing. Instead she gets trapped in her head, by her emotions and fear and PTSD, and falls apart. It wasn't badly done or anything, it just wasn't what I wanted or expected. Kaveh ends up getting more POV, more agency, more action and it annoyed me.
+ I also didn't like how Cora and Ampersand's relationship went. Again, as with Cora, it was believable enough but I wanted their bond to grow and we don't actually get that until the very end after a lot of angst and drama first.
+ Cora/Kayeh... it was there. Kind of side-eyeing him for starting a relationship with Cora when she clearly wasn't well.
+ The fact that Cora was able to quit and walk away from ROSA so easily felt off. I had a hard time believing that they'd let her just walk like that.
+ It bothered me that Nikola brought up the plan to take a bunch of genetic samples and them to a new world in another galaxy and Kaveh considered it, seriously considered to possibility, but never once in his consideration did he think "I can't abandon my family/friends to death" or to try and figure out how he could save others. He didn't even bring it up as an alternate plan! Sure, he eventually decided he couldn't go through with the plan in large part because of those he'd leave behind but it's weird that they weren't the first thing he thought of.