What is the most plausible explanation here?” (c) “Just because something is possible, it doesn’t make it plausible. This need to prove that we are not the worst of ourselves can sometimes make us better people. Living with injustice is one of the hardest things in the world. Lovely Martian setting, evil gov-corps doing horrible stuff and so on. All the 'ze', 'hir' nonbinary designations? Weird but fun. I'm probably turning into one of those readers who will always jump on the next book no matter what she writes.
No spoilers, but the plot is rather cool and much bigger than the blurb implies. And that is also okay because she's complicated and sympathetic and real and often depressed.Īs it turns out, she has good reasons. We're in for a great story where the reveals are numerous, emotional, disturbing, and often made me turn against our protagonist. She's there and a number of little things don't add up.
She doesn't seem all that sure of herself despite being recognized as an excellent painter, but none of that really matters. Is she lucky? Is she turned into a pawn for others? Not an engineer or a put-upon corporate slave, but an artist slipped into the corporate works on Mars. In this third book, related only by its housing in the greater worldbuilding and future history shared with the others, we're given a very different kind of character. It's a whole slew of wonderful worldbuilding quirks, a dedication to deep mystery, and extremely complicated characters often riddled with mental health issues and/or very real plot complications. Is she caught up in an elaborate corporate conspiracy, or is she actually losing her mind? Regardless of what horrors she might discover, or what they might do to her sanity, Anna has to find the truth before her own mind destroys her.Sometimes it's quite hard reviewing books for which you KNOW are rather groundbreaking but do so in a quiet manner and stretch the quality across a span of books. Finding a footprint in a place the colony AI claims has never been visited by humans, Anna begins to suspect that her assignment isn't as simple as she was led to believe. She unpacks her wedding ring, only to find it has been replaced by a fake. Throwing herself into her work, she tries her best to fit in with the team.But in her new room on the base, Anna finds a mysterious note written in her own handwriting, warning her not to trust the colony psychologist. Already she feels like she is losing the connection with her husband and baby at home on Earth-and she'll be on Mars for over a year. After months of travel, Anna Kubrin finally arrives on Mars for her new job as a geologist and de facto artist-in-residence.
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