I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Planetfall is a science-fiction novel about a colony of people who have travelled to another planet to find a God prophesied by their leader. Years later, the people are settled above ‘God City’ but when a newcomer - related to others they believed lost in transit- arrives, he shakes things up in more ways than one and secrets are revealed.

This book is really intriguing, and it’s quite simply written and explained. There were a lot of things I really liked about it, such as the way the people lived in this interesting no-waste environment and how everything appeared to be 3D-printed and almost made of some kind of living, organic material.

Renata is a character who has a lot of different aspects to her, and I loved how she was slowly revealed. She’s a diverse character as well - she appears to be either gay or bisexual - and also suffers from some mental health issues such as extreme hoarding which appears to be related to anxiety and memories she wants to forget.

The mystery around Suh-Me, and how they came upon Atlas and found God City and the colony was really interesting, I just wish we got a bit more from it. I could have dealt with some more world building - I feel like I did have an idea of what God City and the colony looked like but I also felt like my imagining of it was probably wrong, and bit surreal. I also would have liked to know more about how the people came together to follow Suh-Me in the first place, how they were able to just get on a massive ship like the Atlas as well and find some random planet. It was all a bit weird.

There were parts of this that I enjoyed, but in the end it left me feeling fairly neutral and I’m not sure if I’ll read the sequel.