I'm so ambivalent about these books because the plot and story is so interesting and the writing always takes me something like a third of the book to get used to it and to stop finding a distraction.
But the story itself is so good. I love a good locked room mystery in space and MRK delivers here.

I have a few additional comments - one is the absolute gut-punch that is people asking about kashrut in space because it's 2020 and that still happens much less often than I wish it did. The globalization that happens as a result of catastrophe means that, while the world itself may be worse when it comes to loss of life, the moral world is growing by leaps and bounds in the book and you see that in the little glimpses of a world that is more seriously reaching towards post-racism than ours is even now.

Also, the amount of work that MRK put in to accurately, unglamorously, and compassionately depicting anorexia was extraordinary. In particular, the way she wrote about food from this character's perspective was an extraordinary use telling through showing.

The third comment is me being a jerk. I am so so pleased for the people whose names I recognize who have been Tuckerized in this book and I know it's a big deal to them and, every time it happens, I have to stop reading and walk away for a while because it basically kills any narrative momentum and investment I have in the story until I can go back to the story with some distance from having been in it and thrown violently out. I hate it so much, you guys, and I'm so sorry.