Really out-there sci-fi mystery. The sci-fi elements did a really good job at illustrating the theme of the value of human life. However, I think that the strangeness of the narration somewhat took away from the mystery. The story was told through the perspective of Abi, an omniscient AI, yet framed through the perspective of a singular villager, Emory, so it was difficult to determine how much information was being purposefully held back from the reader by Abi. The characters were interesting. I liked how the differences between the villagers and the elders got more and more apparent as the book went on.