If you are up for a solid space opera romp where a person who's alone finds a team in the middle of a new universe she didn't know existed, and that person is also a woman of color who dates women, then boy do I have the book for you!
Vivian Liao is a great character, and this is a space opera that's almost a portal fantasy--on the day she's about to undertake actions to completely transform life on earth by way of becoming a benevolent tech dictator, she is instead pulled into space, and is immediately on the run and gathers a group of four other people who are attempting to deal with the mysteries of the universe. There's a structure and a mythos to the universe at large, and they're well developed while also fairly standard representatives of the space exploration genre, but it's really Viv and her four new friends that I cared about. As a related comment, there's a revelation about two thirds of the way in that feels like it should be a bigger surprise than it is, but because the overall story is compelling enough, I didn't find that to impact my enjoyment of it. This book doesn't reach the heights of the novella he co-wrote last year, but it's a very good read.
Grade: B
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