Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The battle with this giant book was real. I started it months ago, then restarted it around New Year and completed over 10 books in between. The third attempt this month finally ended in victory.

Two storylines alternate with slightly different characters each time. One follows a community of intelligent spiders. The other follows the last surviving humans, flying mostly frozen in a thousand-year-old spaceship called Gilgamesh.

It’s no secret they’re heading for a crash. The deus ex machina pulls the strings toward a carefully arranged finale we can see from the orbit.

I liked the spiders. I didn’t like much else. From what I’ve heard, the second part is easier to read.

3/5.