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@ansate You and I are often in agreement on books, but we will differ here. It is very rare that I set a book aside without finishing, but this one of of the few.

@ansate I always seem to take less away from Klune's books than most people. It sounds like you may be the same.

@ansate I'm very interested to hear what you thought of this.

This book was pleasant enough, but it lost all of its momentum before it ran out of pages, so the ending just felt weak. I was personally at a place that I wasn't wanting a very challenging read, and this worked very nicely.

@ansate Is this another you are reading because of me? I love this series. It just keeps getting better.

@ansate After that ending it is difficult not to just go right on to the next one. Enjoy!

This book is filled with sorrow and loss, but also hope. The two books of this series are beautiful. The detailed worldbuilding meshes well with the sibling series, but is separate enough to be fresh and new. Künsken lovingly handles issues of gender identity, poverty, and the crimes people commit for survival, sometimes with a gentle caress and sometimes with a fist to the face. He explores how governments react to those self-preserving crimes, and also how the governed may deal with their intuitions. There is a lot of hard SF here too. Near-future science on a vivid and believable Venus drive the story.

@ansate LOL! That's amazing!!!

@ansate Have you read these before? If not, I envy you. This is my most favorite series of all time and I wish I could read them for the first time again. Instead I am content to reread them at least annually. Enjoy!