4.5 stars. I really enjoyed this book!

It is optimistic, accepting, loving, and just a great outlook of space and planet exploration with a crew of 4 people that just all get along. They are hungry for knowledge, are doing science for science's sake, and get great enjoyment out of discovery. It made me very happy. There's a little bit of turmoil and it sounds like things aren't going so well on Earth, but these four? They are fantastic! I loved each of the characters! And it gives you some questions to ruminate on after the book is over.

Strangely, the narrator for this book was a narrator in The Initial Insult. I enjoyed her character MUCH MUCH more in this than in the other book! LOL.