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Before Mars by Emma Newman
Aug. 22nd, 2019 06:52 pmBefore Mars
3/5. A geologist and artist is dispatched from future corporate dystopia Earth to Mars. Except when she gets there, she discovers a note in her own handwriting telling herself not to trust a member of the team. And her wedding ring has been swapped for a fake. And then things get weirder.
I can see that this series is doing interesting things with this post-democracy Earth, and Newman is correct in her endnote to say that not enough books touch on postpartum depression in the way this book does. But I think I'm going to stop here, because I'm two books in, and that's two for two on stories of the creeping and pervasive effects of mental illness, and two for two on a pivotal scene of awful community-wide confrontation of a mentally ill person. It's stressful and not my idea of a good time, even if in this instance our protagonist turns out to be more right than not about reality.
3/5. A geologist and artist is dispatched from future corporate dystopia Earth to Mars. Except when she gets there, she discovers a note in her own handwriting telling herself not to trust a member of the team. And her wedding ring has been swapped for a fake. And then things get weirder.
I can see that this series is doing interesting things with this post-democracy Earth, and Newman is correct in her endnote to say that not enough books touch on postpartum depression in the way this book does. But I think I'm going to stop here, because I'm two books in, and that's two for two on stories of the creeping and pervasive effects of mental illness, and two for two on a pivotal scene of awful community-wide confrontation of a mentally ill person. It's stressful and not my idea of a good time, even if in this instance our protagonist turns out to be more right than not about reality.