A review by morganthebee
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

3.0

I've been struggling with my rating on this one. Objectively I think it's well written, and I went into it wanting to love it, but I struggled with all the exposition about science and not a lot of storytelling. As a result the characters felt underdeveloped other than Ariadne herself, whose perspective we're seeing. I also felt like it took ages for anything to actually get going, and I considered dropping it for the first quarter of the book because I was struggling so much to get into it. I usually love sci-fi, including the sciency parts, but this story just wasn't rounded out enough and didn't do it for me.