Ancestral Night

, #1

512 pages

English language

Published Dec. 13, 2019 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4732-0874-2
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4 stars (22 reviews)

Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants.

She thinks she knows who she is.

She is wrong.

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Review of 'Ancestral Night' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I went into this looking for a fun sci-fi romp, and instead got some philosophical navel gazing on the nature of intelligent life, one woman working through her cult upbringing baggage, and a general feeling like this book was written with a purpose in mind and directed at somebody specific, rather than to tell a story to a general audience.

Haimey Dz is a salvage mechanic, part of a crew of two (plus an AI, plus two cats) who plumb the depths of white space looking for derelict ships to recover and sell off. One of their salvage trips goes awry, however, when Haimey inadvertently takes on an alien symbiote that ends up augmenting her sense of space around her. Despite wanting nothing to do with this alien taking up residence under her skin, Haimey finds herself pursued by people intent on taking it from her. Things happen, and she …

Review of 'Ancestral Night' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I love space opera, and I love stories that examine what it is to be human. Ancestral Night hits both those notes, and a few others (truly alien minds, transhumanism, extreme body modification, etc.).

There are at least one or two spots where I had to put the book down and wonder if Bear would really do this to me (or, her characters anyway), and just had to trust that she knew where the story needed to go. And it went. Looking forward to the second book, which I will be starting as soon as I hit "post" on this review!

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