Renato R.

I liked it a lot. It's a strange beast though: definitely a scifi story, with an intriguing handful of “science inventions”, it is nonetheless not a story about those. Maybe that's what makes it a really good scifi story; it's really about the people, not the science.

You can read the rest of this review on my blog at
https://renatoram.ch/p/the-sparrow-by-mary-doria-russell/

Understanding the Feegle's accent was a challenge, but they are funny as hell.

The authors continue to relentlessly pursue the evolution of the setting and the characters.

The long time jump was a bold move, and it was very useful to avoid a slump where the new status quo would either stay as it is (boring) or change too fast (unrealistic).

Knowing only a couple of books remain in the saga, I'm curious to see where it all will go.

The series continues to be good fun. This specific installation has a middle that's a bit slow, possibly on purpose, but if you reach past the bump, the pace picks back up.

The authors are relentlessly exploring the consequences of the world-changing events that happen basically in every book of the series, without shying from big, sweeping changes. Quite the contrary, they lean in and really go for it: suddenly there's a new Frontier? Guess what, Land Rush happens!

In more than a way, this book plays on the isolation and the lawlessness of the life in the newly colonized Frontier: what do the laws of civilized society really mean, when that civlilized society is something like 3 years away?

I can still distinctly remember the very first scene.

This book (and its sequels) really tend to graft to the back of your imagination.