nicasio's review against another edition
3.0
Four stars for roughly the first 2/3 and 3 for the last third, unfortunately. There was a lot in here that I was very into (the creeping horror of the opening, the trek across the winter, the differing attitudes towards history), but in the end I didn't buy the romantic weight that was given to Vika and Pierre's relationship, which ended up so emotionally central to the closing third, and so my ability to invest in their characters diminished. I was also disappointed by how predictably gender and sexuality were depicted for the alien species.
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