A Closed and Common Orbit

Holy shit this one got to me. There are very few books that can bring you to tears, but this is one of them. It does the telling-two-stories-in-alternating-chapters thing, which has become annoyingly popular. As usual, one of the stories is much stronger than the other, but both stories and enough to stand up on there own. Like A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Chambers focuses on writing characters rather than story. The plot is paper thin, but you keep turning the page regardless because you want to know what happens to these characters.