Author Hood

That which many space thrillers tend to overlook, The Crimson Divide understood and addressed real well, that reaching another planet doesn't automatically make humanity wiser🙇‍♀️

Set two years after the establishment of Jezero City, this one explored how quickly the idea of a shared future could begin to fracture when resources started to become scarce, loyalties...conditional and the political power refuses to stay behind on Earth🤞
The Mars setting was no doubt brilliant to read but the real element and excitement came from watching pioneering civilisation struggle with problems that were really painfully familiar...mistrust, ambition, factionalism and the desire to control what others had built🙌
Liked reading the way the narrative widened its scope through the story.
That which initially appeared to be a crisis within a vulnerable colony, developed into a more complicated conflict that involved military interests, shifting alliances, sabotage and questions about independence🤌
The arrival of the Bogatyr added an awesome geopolitical dimension and the unexplained disturbances beneath the Martian surface...brought forward a completely different kind of uncertainty🥲

Another plus point was that the book didn't treat its characters as mere instruments for delivering some scientific or political ideas.
Vihaan and Zara remained in the centre of the emotional movement of the story and their decisions carried the weight of people trying to protect...not just a settlement but altogether the possibility of a future worth having🤞

For me, the best thing about the book was the question it hovered around...it being that if humanity carried its old divisions to a new world, could it genuinely create something new there???🤞
"The Crimson Divide" is a cinematic sequel but it presented the most engaging conflict between the dream of civilisation and the instincts that threatened to destroy it🙌

Rating:- ⭐🌟🌟⭐

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