Paperback, 432 pages
English language
Published Feb. 16, 2018 by Orbit.
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless -- people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.
Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again -- but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future.
It felt like it took a turn and lost the thread. Or perhaps it was two different books.
This is a very good story of alien contact. It seemed to me to be talking about two alien biosphere's, the one that dropped from space and the one that Nigeria represents to an old white, dude like me. The narrator is unreliable and somewhat unlikeable and the story is told in a non-linear time line. The story is very much grounded in its sense of place and is much an afro futurist viewpoint as a novel of first contact. Recommended but I am not going to jump to the next one in the series with any great speed as there is just too much other good stuff to read.
