Proxima

If I had not bought that at full price I would have DNFed it.

This is neither character driven nor plot driven, this is world building driven.
If you are fine with that, you get a beautifully drawn alien world with lots of unique things but the plot is thin at best. While the description of the earth and how we got here is lacking, the alien world is fantastic.
Baxter's ideas are, as always, grandios, interesting and though provoking but the execution is so poor in this one.
The story only really starts at around 45%, the first half of the book is basically pointless filler with story lines that go nowhere and are never picked up again. Maybe those are for book 2, idk, I am not gonna read it.
It gets interesting in the second part of the book but that too is drawn out only to end at a cliffhanger, which was infuriating to say the least.
It put me off so much that this will be the last Baxter book I will read for some time.

Oh and the book has nothing to do with the text on its back. Literally nothing.

Disclaimer: I ‘read' this on audible, if that is of importance.