It’s been 17-years since Ambrose and Kodiak crash landed on Minerva. Life as the only humans on Minerva hasn’t been without its hiccups, but they’ve happily raised a family together. However, their family is about to go through a number of new hurdles, including ones they never could’ve predicted. In the distant past, the original Ambrose and Kodiak wake up and learn they’ve been manipulated and lied to. Will these two find their way to each other, and will they manage to get their own unedited messages to their clones?
While I loved the first book, I did think it could’ve worked as a standalone with an open ending. I still think that, but I did really enjoy reading this! I love that we got rotating narrators this time around as well, so we follow Owl and Yarrow in the present, and Ambrose and Kodiak in the past. I especially love that we finally got to see things from Kodiak’s perspective! I enjoyed getting to know the new characters as well as finally meeting the original Ambrose and Kodiak and learning about what happened to them.
That said, I’m glad we didn’t get many Yarrow chapters because I found them to be a chore to read at times. I’m just disappointed by the lack of depth despite seeing and experiencing part of his story through his own eyes. I wish that Yarrow’s story took an entirely different path, especially because there were other ways to create drama on Minerva whether or not it was impacted by long dead people back on Earth. It just felt like an abandoned mental health plot once we started to see the whole picture.
All in all, I enjoyed the book, but I can’t see the story going further than this. I really liked getting multiple POVs this time around, and I liked that we bounce between the past and present. I’m looking forward to checking out the author’s other works since, overall, I really enjoyed this series.
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