The Sound of Stars

I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Whoops totally forgot to write this review quickly, so here are the important tidbits”

Ellie is demi & bisexual Black 17 year old with anxiety who reflects on racism in US before the aliens even arrived. Morris is a little meh, but the most romantic being ever, who also experiences hardships as a ‘lesser' being (labmade v. true)
The book has some great quotes – romantic and ones speaking to the divided world we live in. It really relates to our world and think this would be a good alternative or additional reading for high school required reading lists.

It is an interesting concept, but was slow for me. I never really got into it and the ending while a different way to do things, made this book feel like less, like a prequel that only hints at all the great things that will come, but because this is a standalone we will never get.

I will recommend this to people looking for apocalypse sci-fi novels and beautiful writing. So, not my kind of book, but I will try another book by this author in the future.