This was excellent -- just a really solid example of good science fiction. I loved the character growth for Kyr, and the space that the book made for characters to be nuanced and make mistakes because of past trauma without excusing bad decisions.

The book really benefitted from genre awareness and using that to build and then subvert expectations. I, in particular, liked how the dystopian doomsday preppers in outer space, such a common genre, turned out to be a fascist cult led by a charismatic leader with strong analogies to modern religious doomsday prepper cults.

It reads quickly and easily, but left me with a lot to think about and touched on a lot of relevant topics.