Children of God is the sequel to The Sparrow. It picks up right after the events of hte first book, both on Earth and Rakhat. It started off strong with the immediate aftermath of the first book, but as the book went on I struggled to see what it was supposed to be about and the ending fell completely flat for me. It felt like it was supposed to be a groundbreaking answer to the theological questions raised in the first book, but I think it came out of nowhere and there wasn’t enough support in the rest of the story to justify it. Overall I liked the story enough, but it was not as good as I epxected after the first book. I had some difficulty following the different timelines. In the first book there were only two, but relativity made tracking events in multiple timelines across the two planets challenging.
Children of God
- Author: Mary Doria Russell
- ISBN: 9780307414748
- Format: ebook
- Start: 2025-12-06
- Finish: 2025-12-11