I quite enjoyed the second of this series by Lindsay Ellis. I think it developed both the characters of the first novel and the philosophical ideas that were raised. We spend a significant portion of the narrative outside the perspective of Cora, the POV character jn Axiom’s End, which I think helps with the growing world we find ourselves in. I do think the book suffers a little bit from “middle of a trilogy” syndrome, with lots of things left open for a potential third novel. The themes of the novel and what it means to be human absolutely resonate with what is happening in our world today, and even though it is ostensibly a period piece (set in 2008) it feels like these are arguments that could be happening today. I don’t know what that says about us, that things haven’t changed all that much in 10+ years.

I was given an advance copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.