The Rosewater Insurrection

In part two, we learn alot more about the alien, Wormwood. There have apparently been aliens around since the Cambric Explosion, about 500 million years ago. In Chapter 1, we actually see the world from the eyes of an alien, which speaks directly to us, the reader. The aliens are similar to us in the way they have treated their own planet. It is wasted and withered, its landscape barren, its orbit full of mechanical parts and dead satellites. They continue to live in space stations for a while before they decided to go completely virtual. In fact, in reality they have become extinct. By the way, we also learn that Femi Alaagomeji is maybe the person on the world with the fewest xenoforms inside her body. She only has 2% xenocells. As Femi is also the most beautiful person in the entire series, I wonder if she is perceived as beautiful because of her "human purity". Yet on the inside, Femi is not much human at all. She is described by a writer in the story as having dead eyes. And although everyone is attracted to Femi, she never has any personal relationship to someone else that we learn of (she had a husband that died violently, though). Since this is Afrofuturism, what was missing or only mentioned in passing by was a civil war. This is Africa, so we get our civil war in the second book of the series. Civil war is the worst form of war, as we learn fast. I thought the book started to slowly. But at one certain point, all different story meanderings started to roll at the same time, and swoosh, the book draw me in again.