It was all over the place and infuriatingly convenient. I just needed to know more about this whole new planet that was built on this ashes of earth, trying to do better than the humans of the past. How did they find this inhabitable planet? How is it 'earth adjacent' (which is the actual name of the planet)? How do TICCERs work? how does the clock component of them make the heart survive? As a medstudent, the medical aspects of the book made me lose my braincells because of how either too vague or actually impossible in practice.

I had so many questions while reading, especially regarding the history of this world.

The worldbuilding was barely there, everything was *gestures vaguely* and the reader is just expected to go with it. The concept behind this book is a really good one, but it unfortunately was executed very poorly. But aside from that, it was just.too forcefully angsty and I didn't buy into that. The writing was trying too hard, like you know when you can see the author putting words together trying to make the sentence be flowery and have a deeper meaning than they actually do but instead they just happen to not make sense at all? That's how I felt reading a lot of the passages in this book. Well, that's a lie, I liked that out of three main characters two are sapphic and one is aroace, but that's it. I'm sorry but.this book is a hot ass mess? I just.I didn't like anything about it. CW: parental emotional and physical abuse, stabbing wounds, surgery, blood, illness, graphic death of a child

Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor