All in all, a somewhat odd book that I think mostly works. The romance was really sweet and really cute. Patrick and Curt are great together and just adorable, but they’re also great as their own, separate entities. I liked all the side characters (except the ones you’re not supposed to like), and most of this book I really enjoyed.

I didn’t care for the interview transcript stuff. That always just feels like a cheap way to info dump to me, and I didn’t care any more for it here. (And there’s so much of it. Ugh.)(But admittedly, Neal DeGlasse Bryson and Bill McCann the Science Man did make me laugh.)

And I felt like the ending was weak. In a lot of ways, this book ends after Hermes I lands back on Earth, and everything else (but for a few important conversations) just feels like one extended epilogue.