Ahoy there me mateys!  I received this sci-fi eARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  So here be me honest musings . . .

I really enjoyed the first companion book in this series, ancestral night, and was looking forward to reading this.  This book is set in the same universe as the previous novel but follows a different character.  Dr. Jens works for an intergalactic hospital as a search and rescue specialist.  Her life turns upside down when a ship with a distress call turns out to be an ancient generation ship from Earth where all the crew has been cryogenically frozen and an insane shipmind is in charge.

The positives of this book is that I loved the beginning and the setting.  I loved the idea of the space hospital and how it functioned.  I loved all the different species working together to save each other.  I thought the rescue missions were an interesting concept.  Dr. Jens was an overall cool character who happens to be in chronic pain.

Sadly, this book just didn't completely work for me.  While I liked Dr. Jens, she spent too much of the book blaming herself for things out of her control.  The elements I liked (frozen people, ship sabotage, Helen) turned out to not be the focus.  The "conspiracy subplot" for me turned out to be a) lackluster and b) very predictable.  I wanted more about the unfrozen people and Helen adjusting to the change of waking up far in the future.  I wanted more search and rescue missions.  And the ending and resolution was lame.  I wanted answers and focus on other things.

Cool elements and ideas but ultimately rather disappointed me.

So lastly . . .

Thank you Saga Press!