Rounded down from 2.5 stars.

This is a tough one to review. The science, the exploration, the adventure, and the characters were all good; but every time Bova attempts to write about romance, or love triangles, or sex, or really any sort of interpersonal relationship or human emotion, I just want to crawl under a rock and die. There was a lot of the cringey stuff in this one, and it was all very very very very bad. I feel sorry for his wife.