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[alyson]

This is the sequel to The Sparrow, which I reviewed recently.

Here is the plot synopsis: our main character from the first book, Sandoz, is on Earth and is being asked to go back to the planet he'd visited, Rakhat. In a layering of perspectives and timeframes, in the meantime, we learn what happened on Rakhat after he left.

As I see it, looking at the two books together, The Sparrow was a well-sculpted story whose purpose was to be a catalyst. The nice thing was that it was well-rounded and complete on its own, with its own points of interest, as a catalyst.

Children of God encapsulated the overall reaction to the story of the first book. Everything that was started, finished in this book. I enjoyed it, and liked the challenging fairness of every viewpoint it gave--it's like, how would you know how to judge people and history if you knew how every single one of them saw everything?

It would have been interesting to have read Children of God first, simply so that I could tell with more of an objective view whether it was as independently readable as The Sparrow.
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