The House Was the Real Main Character
As far as science fiction goes, this is a very good concept. The standout is the house—it is bio-sentient, it warns the owners when something is wrong, and, in a deeply relatable human twist, it is promptly ignored. Except this house is a living thing that eventually demands to be heard.
Sable and Cael work together with the familiar rhythm of a married couple, despite not actually being married. They clearly love each other but constantly procrastinate talking about it, proving that "tomorrow" is the ultimate relationship graveyard.
Oddly, the entire novel reads a bit like a computer-generated document. Emotions are pushed entirely aside, which is a trait the human characters seem to adopt as well. Ultimately, it kept me turning the pages—not because I cared about what happened to the humans, but because I desperately wanted to see how the house turned out.
