Many things were possible. Almost anything. They lived at the very outer bounds of what was known.

This novella had so many things that should have kept me on the edge of my seat. Space-traveling nuns! Living spaceships! Huge conspiracies! What could go wrong?

Well, something did. Despite all these cool ideas stuffed into the small book, the way they were executed simply failed to grasp my interest. People talked. Events happened. I kept wondering when the fun stuff was going to begin, and it kind of never did. There was a small part about the living spaceships early on that had me curious, but more from the worldbuilding standpoint. And there were some interesting moments in the final third of the book when the entire conspiracy plot was getting tied together. Perhaps it's a format-specific problem; some stories work fine in novella format, and some just need more space to develop characters and concepts.