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Klara and the Sun meets S. A. Barnes's Dead Silence with a touch of Becky Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild-Built in Nebula Award-winning author A.D. Sui's darkly philosophical, locked room murder mystery, as a death monk and a team of researchers trapped onboard a spaceship of the dead encounter…

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How do I even begin to explain this book. It was breathtaking in every way. I was captured first by the characters, who are so full that they felt real. But the writing and plot quickly captured me as well and I found myself unable to escape the story. Even when I wasn't reading, I was haunted by what I had just read. It's one of those rare books that I wanted to reread as soon as I was done my first read.

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