Record of a Spaceborn Few

Love this author and this series, but this is the least successful so far. We’re moving further away from the original characters and follow five new (mostly) unrelated characters. It just felt disjointed. And I cared more about some vs. others, e.g. Eyas the caretaker who does funeral rites. Learning more about Exodans and the culture of humans who left earth was really interesting though.

I received an Advance Reader Copy from Goodreads and Avon/Voyager At Harper Collins and offer an honest review.

I received my copy of this book in the Summer of 2018. I do not like to read a series out of order, and I had not read ANY of Becky Chambers’ material yet. I finally got to read the first book, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in January of 2019, the second, A Closed and Common Orbit later that same summer, and then misplaced this book with some other books for my grandchildren.

After recently finding my copy again, I started a slow read between other books, and then finished with flourish (and a highlighter for passages) this week.

My receiving of the copy of this book may not have provided any up front promotional hype, but it did create a fan of Becky Chambers’ stories.