Renato R.

I liked it a lot. It's a strange beast though: definitely a scifi story, with an intriguing handful of “science inventions”, it is nonetheless not a story about those. Maybe that's what makes it a really good scifi story; it's really about the people, not the science.

You can read the rest of this review on my blog at
https://renatoram.ch/p/the-sparrow-by-mary-doria-russell/

The authors continue to relentlessly pursue the evolution of the setting and the characters.

The long time jump was a bold move, and it was very useful to avoid a slump where the new status quo would either stay as it is (boring) or change too fast (unrealistic).

Knowing only a couple of books remain in the saga, I'm curious to see where it all will go.