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This book takes a “bottle episode” idea and marries it to the trope of “Who is the traitor?” and produces a story about how one girl has to save the world. Almost literally.

Sabotage in space makes for a good mix of sci-fi, mystery, and people in mortal peril due to a significant limitation of resources. The Deep Sky takes this mix of threads and puts them in the hands of Asuka, last picked as a member of this unique mission to send life to another planet in the hopes of saving humanity. As an alternate, Asuka struggles with a lot of questions as to her place in the crew and the ship, and even her relationship with herself and her family history.

The story was fast-paced, had good characters (even though in some regards it felt like they were talking at each other rather than to or with each other), and an underlying simmer of distrust. As a whole, this was engaging, and Asuka carried the plot.

*I received a free ARC from Netgalley and the publisher to read and review. All opinions are my own.