This was recommended in many places, and I thought to give it a shot.

Overall impression was: "Meh". There's a lot to like about this book, but there are just so many things which didn't fit together properly.

The protaganist, Cora, remains pretty much a cipher. While she's clearly meant to be Latinx, there's just nothing about her life or her reactions to the world around her which signify any of that, or indeed which give her any real presence as a character.

More to the point, her reactions to the aliens in the story are just incredibly difficult to understand, and her actions are incomprehensible. All of this, together with the very dry (like a desert) prose just made this all unexciting and puzzling.

There's also an (off-screen) character who is just essentially Julian Assange, perhaps a little less personally repulsive, but still just Assange with a different name. This meant that I never engaged with the mythos element of the book.

Ellis has clearly put a lot of thought and effort into her aliens - the construction of their society and overarching goals is done well, a slow reveal over the extent of the book.

I just wish she'd put the same effort into the people.