Ellis's Reviews > Light from Uncommon Stars

This book has a lot of heart but almost no tension, the food descriptions are lush and decadent and there's probably no way to read it and not have an intense craving for a donut and that's nice, but there are several bursts of intense violence that sort of come out of nowhere and there's also way too much going on. My interest waned when the focus was on the space alien family who'd escaped an intergalactic war and ran a donut shop while also building a star gate or the violin repairing woman who came from a long line of sexist violin repairing men and suffered from feelings of inadequacy as a result, because I was much more interested in the trans violin prodigy who was maybe going to sell her soul to a demon and her cursed teacher, and I wish Aoki had chosen one path to tread rather than combining multiple story lines.