The Kindest Embrace If Firm Enough Can Suffocate

De: Rowan Alexandria Bennett

Narrado por: Lexi Melody Holcomb

Wisteria Elken (she/her) has always wanted to be a stellarnaut, to be entrusted with the monumental responsibility of linking the terrestrial world with the millions living in the zero-g environments of spacesteads. To do so, she’ll need to leave the only home she’s ever known and journey to the whirling lights and towering spires of humanity’s greatest metropolis, the City of Poets.

One problem. Well, a million problems, but one particularly pressing problem: Wist is transgender.

From everything she’s heard, the executives of Kell Princeton, the premiere spacefaring ultracorp, will not allow for a transgender stellarnaut. Can Wist survive the grueling trials set forth by Kell Princeton without revealing her true identity?

This sci-fi novel set in an entirely other world weaves together themes of LGBTQ+ romance, the overcoming of anxiety and bigotry, a revolutionary spirit, a love for poetry, and rich explorations of dystopian and cyberpunk genres.

©2025 Rowan Bennett (P)2025 Rowan Bennett

Absolutely Fantastic!!!!

I absolutely adored this book, hands down. The story is very realistic in the sense that good people do bad things and the bad people aren't always obvious. The portayal of dysphoria was very similar to how I've always experienced it and that was a very tethering detail. Every turn in this book made me hold my breath and pray. Sadly quite a few retakes by the narrator (phenomenal btw) made it in to the narration which can be a bit jarring but thats small potatoes compared to this masterpiece of a book.