This is an amazing book! The concepts are brilliant and innovative science fiction and showcase the author's background as an anthropologist in both the description of the humans and their interactions and in the unique alien culture they encounter.

This is also a cruel book! It reveals really on that it contains horrors and then it keeps the details from you for oh so long, occasionally dangling them in front of you to remind you not to get complacent.

I'm definitely reading the sequel, but I think I need a break with something lighter first!