Really enjoyed this historical fiction, especially as it doesn't shy away from addressing racial and religious inequities of the time. A wonderful story! More reviews at spinesinaline.wordpress.com!

I feel like I learned a lot from this book along with enjoying the story and pacing. I know little about the history of astronomy and even less about Mormonism and this is such an engaging and educational read. As I described to friends, this is historical fiction done right in that it explicitly addresses colonialism and racial and religious inequities of the time, rather than pretending it was just a different time then.

The MC is Mormon, which means she’s faced with a lot of stereotypes outside her home community, but when she meets several Black people on her journey, she critiques her own understandings of race and acknowledges that there are privileges she experiences on the basis of her skin colour. It felt very realistic and honest and I especially loved the author’s note where the Eves goes into more detail on all that she couldn’t include in the book as well as her own Mormon background.