Thank you to the author and publisher Orenda Books for access to read this as an advance reader’s ebook as part of a blog tour with Random Things Tours. This is an honest and voluntary review.

 

A beautiful yet realistic sci-fi tale.

 

Lennox, Ava and Heather are brought together by accident. Amongst over a dozen afflicted by a massive stroke on the same night, these three are the only ones to recover, doing so at a pace and to an extent that stuns doctors. Drawn to a stranded octopus-like creature they call Sandy, the three turn their lives upside down to try and help them.

 

I loved this story. For anyone who has read the author’s crime series The Skelfs, his foray into science fiction won’t come as a huge surprise. A sense of awe at the possibilities of the universe emerges through the science student youngest in that family. A similar sense of the vastness of space and the wonders of worlds beyond ours permeates this book.

 

But, at its heart it’s a story of connection, of belonging and wanting to belong. Of found families providing stability and support, and hope, even if some of the members happen to have tentacles.