Sci-fi. Set on a planet on which one side is always day and the other is always night, ten or twelve generations after the arrival of a massive ship bearing the remnants of humanity from a dying Earth. Only the narrow strip of twilight between the two halves of the planet is suitable for human life. Follows two characters who come from very different places in the gradually failing human experiment to make life on this planet work over the long term. Sadly, while I liked this book, I definitely didn’t love it. It’s clever with interesting worldbuilding and moments of insight into our world today, and the writing is generally good, but something about the interface between character and plot just didn’t grab me for a good part of the book. There were certainly moments where I felt hooked, like the section close to the end where the author got to show in great detail something she had obviously been itching to show since the very start, but a lot of the time I had trouble caring about the characters and feeling compelled by their emotional trajectories and consequent choices. I’m definitely not giving up on this author, whose work at io9 I really liked, and I’m keen to go back and read her first novel, but this one just didn’t quite do it for me.
Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.