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Medium-soft sci-fi with medium romance
So this is billed as a sci-fi romance. But from my perspective, there was no justification provided for why the POV character was so obsessed with the other character. At least not at the beginning. So the yearning felt very melodramatic until later in the book, and until the end tbh -- the characters never did anything to express their feelings before being separated and, well, I'll leave you to find out for yourselves what happens at the end. If soft sci-fi is purely vibes with no need for the science to make sense, and hard sci-fi is Liu Cixin, then this is somewhere in the middle in that there are a lot of jargon-y scientific explanations but it doesn't necessarily make sense and there are also vibes. Which is kind of an 어중간한 style that I don't like. Well I've only written negative things so far -- why did I give it 4 stars? Because once I pushed through maybe about 50%, it got better, and the last 25% was really good. Budget 김초엽 / Story Of Your Life vibes.