3.5 out of 5 stars

It has been twenty-two years since Ren and the others in the colony arrived on this planet far beyond earth. It was a place that was untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war and held a promise to reveal our place in the cosmos. They made their home at the bottom of an organic alien structure and in that structure is Lee Suh-Mi the founder of the colony.

But the truth of what happened to Suh-Mi is not known to the other colonists, Renata Ghali is one of the few who knows exactly what happened and she has kept that secret since. The arrival in the colony of a stranger from one of the other ships threatens the status quo, especially when they learn that he is related to Suh-Mi. He is there for a reason and if the other colonists were to discover the truth, who knows what might happen

I really liked this story. The world-building is very well done, in particular the alien structure and the way that the characters interact with it. I liked the varied characters, there is an unreliable narrator, the disrupter and the sneaky type and they all go to make the story work really well. The plot was well mapped out and there was enough in there to keep me reading it, which is always a good thing. If there was one flaw, there were too many loose ends and unanswered questions in this, but it is the first in a series of four, so I am hoping that they get answered in the rest!

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