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*SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW AHOY. *
On the plus side, I'm glad that clones in space is indeed turning out to be a viable subgenre I can look forward to reading again in the future, as this makes the fifth book I've read in that theme in the past couple years. I believe I'm in the minority here, but this is not the type of story structure I can enjoy. The author spent nearly 200 pages building up a connection between the reader and the characters and their relationship, and the mystery they were solving, and then HE BLEW ‘EM OUT AN AIRLOCK! I don't care if the sentiment was supposed to be that it would add to the romance that whichever version of themselves they were, they would learn to work together/love each other, that it's supposed to build suspense in the middle of solving the mystery, it reads as redundant to me to repeat certain steps of getting to know each other and realizing something is wrong and trying to solve it, when you could have just written another 50- 100 pages (without the halt in between) where they just discover the clones in the engine room, and then the overall plan and grow closer during that, and then the ultimate ending, and you would not have had to have what reads as a stalling mechanism, to me, in the middle. Just my natural impatience, but I basically called bullshit and started skim reading by the half way point. Read enough to know it followed the story beats on repeat like I was afraid it would as soon as it hit part two. I did give a thorough read to the first exposition/explanation dialogue with OS Prime and the letters. I gather there were reflections on what helps make a long standing successful romantic relationship, how humans/clones can survive knowing that kind of fate, not being able to leave that isolated environment, but if there were golden takeaways I didn't catch any. 🤷🏼♂️ Feel free to consider this a DNF on my part as that's exactly what I felt like doing about half way through.
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