This book is definitely a page-turner. It's hard to put down and unfolds like a mystery, but when you get answers to something, it comes with more questions.

The MC, the biologist, is such an interesting character in that she is so utterly strange/logical/and maybe repressed emotionally, likely stemming from her trouble childhood. Her narrative is both highly logical and unreliable at the same time, giving the story a near believability.

4/5 stars because the ending wasn't as good as the start. I was absolutely absorbed by the whole thing until it hit me with the Spoiler"it's aliens". The cosmic horror just wasn't here to match the hyped levels at the beginning.