Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis

(Titan Books, 2021)

Reviewed by John Dodd

If you haven’t read Axiom’s End, there are things discussed in this review that will reveal parts of the plot, take the time to go and read that book before looking at this review.

What if aliens existed and they came down to Earth, what would first contact really be like? This was the question that was answered in Axiom’s End, the first book in this series.

Where this goes, is what happens after first contact, when you know aliens exist, but the truth of who and what they truly are is still unknown. At the end of the first book, when Ampersand bonds with Cora, a new perspective of life begins, where what was just a story of physicality goes further into the psyche than the first book ever considered to do.

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