Title: The Vanished Birds
Author: Simon Jimenez
Series: Standalone(?)
Genre: Sci-fi/Adult
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Publication Date: January 14th, 2020
Edition: Kindle Edition
Source: NetGalley
Synopsis:
A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time.
"This is when your life begins."
Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her; all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky.
A boy, broken by his past.
The scarred child does not speak, his only form of communication the beautiful and haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs and their strange, immediate connection, Nia decides to take the boy in. And over years of starlit travel, these two outsiders discover in each other the things they lack. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside of herself.
For both of them, a family.
But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy. The past hungers for him, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.
Review:
I can not express how happy I am that I found this book. I have read several Sci-fi books, and I have enjoyed very few of them. This was such an enjoyable book. The characters are fantastic, the found family aspect of it all. Thinking about it, it gave me FireFly vibes a little.
The first few chapters, or the first chapter (they are long chapters), follows a different boy over the course of his life, from birth to his death and the time over the years where he meets Nia and wants to have something more than he as a farmer, but learns that he's not as special as he thought. After his story is done, it follows a different boy (Ahro) and Captain Nia.
This was beautifully written, the characters are all wonderfully diverse. And the plot, while not entirely clear at first is really interesting. There are parts that lag a little, and some of the off-shoots of the plot aren't clear how they fit in with Nia and Ahro, quickly weave together nicely.
I struggle to talk about this book, and books like this and either, not spoil anything, or just recite the entire book.
This was beautifully written, the characters are all wonderfully diverse. And the plot, while not entirely clear at first is really interesting. There are parts that lag a little, and some of the off-shoots of the plot aren't clear how they fit in with Nia and Ahro, quickly weave together nicely.
I struggle to talk about this book, and books like this and either, not spoil anything, or just recite the entire book.
If you like books set in space, and found family then you might like this one too.
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