Really fun story with really lovely flaws in the characters. And that's just the best positive of this story.

It's a story about building a community and it spans several human lifetimes. It's also a story about relationships and learning and it has the nicest (still flawed) beauty bush I've ever encountered.

Honestly, it feels like very much the old sci-fi that I read as a child where there were really wild things happening that mostly taught me about what humans can be like.

I also love the sound of the word fippokat.