Bright and Dangerous Objects

De: Anneliese Mackintosh

Narrado por: Erica Sullivan

Commercial deep-sea diver Solvig has a secret. She wants to be one of the first human beings to colonize Mars, and she is one of a hundred people shortlisted by the Mars Project to do just that. But to fulfill her ambition, she will have to leave behind everything she has ever known - for the rest of her life.

As the prospect of heading to space becomes more real, 37-year-old Solvig is forced to define who she really is. Will she come clean to James, her partner, about her plans? Or will she turn her back on the project and commit to her life on Earth? Maybe even try for a baby, like James is hoping? Is there any way she can start a family and go to Mars? Does she even want both things?

Intimate and captivating, Bright and Dangerous Objects explores the space between ambition and obligation, grappling with questions women have faced for centuries while investigating a future that humanity is only beginning to think about.

In frank, honest, and moving prose, author Anneliese Mackintosh moves from sea to sky, head to heart, and present to future, asking all the while what it means when our wildest dreams begin to come true.

©2020 Anneliese Mackintosh (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Emotional and True to Life

I had just finished reading a romance story when I wanted something different. I found this title by accident and gave it a try. I'm so glad I did.

This is a first person narrative of a woman nsned Selvic wrestling with so many universal self truths : Is she a sexual creature, does she deserve happiness, should she stay in a relationship when her capacity to feel seems to come and go with the tides? She has applied to be one of the first humans to go to Mars even if it kills her. She's afraid not of going but if not going if that makes any sense.

The MC's miscarriage hurt me emotionally. As a transwoman who will never know the mixture of joy, sadness, fear and anxiety of being pregnant, it pulled no punches as it stayed real the whole way through. I felt Selvic's pain.

I want to thank the author and VA for sharing this journey with me. It'll stick with me a long time.

Don't waste your time

Great starting concept, but never any resolution to any of the actually interesting parts of the story. Decent narration though.

sad book

sad book. baby dies. mom dies. dog dies. not much sci Fi. bunch of drama.