Review: Otherworldly by Dwain Worrell

Otherworldly by Dwain Worrell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I was provided an ALC of this book via Netgalley, all opinions are my own. In fully transparency, I picked this book as my Amazon Prime First Reads book for February so I also own the ebook version.

This started out really interesting but as the book went on I found it got more confusing. The concept is really interesting. Cleo and her crew are sent to check out a planet and determine it's terraforming capability. Cleo is a bit of a loner making her a perfect candidate for a solo mission to the planet's surface. Upon arrival she find the planet to be strange, and when another crewmate starts to experience similar things she begins to wonder if they aren't actually alone in space. The book just gets weirder from there, and I won't spoil it because it is actually pretty interesting.

I enjoyed Cleo's robot companion Shakes who is only speaks in rhyme, it added a bit of humor to some of the more serious situations, or some poetry to some of the more emotional scenes. As Cleo traverses the planet and the different sphere's the action picks up as she attempts to find the other members of her crew. She also has to deal with the dangers the planet throws at her which is where I found the story to get confusing, I may have to go back and read those parts again because I'm still not sure what was going on. There was alot going on at one point and I lost track of what was happening.

Overall I thought the worldbuilding was well done and the plot was unique. The pacing was good and while I found bit of it a little confusing I think that was more of a me issue than an issue with the writing.

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