At the end of the first book, when Ampersand bonds with Cora, a new perspective of life begins, where what was just a story of physicality goes further into the psyche than the first book ever considered to do. Where this goes, is what happens after first contact, when you know aliens exist, but the truth of who and what they truly are is still unknown. What if aliens existed and they came down to Earth, what would first contact really be like? This was the question that was answered in Axiom’s End, the first book in this series. While examining the question of what makes a human, Ellis investigates what makes a monster.If you haven’t read Axiom’s End, there are things discussed in this review that will reveal parts of the plot, take the time to go and read that book before looking at this review. In Truth of the Divine, Lindsay Ellis deepens her exploration of the reality of a world faced with the presence of extra terrestrial intelligence, probing the essential questions of humanity and decency, and the boundaries of the human mind. Originally taken as a hostage, he and Cora end up forming a bond of their own that neither of them could have predicted, caught up in an interstellar battle that will decide the future safety of life on earth, however you define it.
Kaveh Mazandarani, two-time Pulitzer prize nominee, friend of Cora’s father Nils, sees more than he’s meant to. In the madness near the crash site, one reporter gets caught up in the melee. Something that Cora has never seen before, even though at this point she would have sworn she’d seen everything. It marks the return of Obelus – and the arrival of something else. With their personhood designation up in the air, the sky lights up again. And neither does the government, since Ampersand isn’t giving them the answers they need to decide their legal status, namely: where did they come from? What do they want? What are they capable of? In Truth of the Divine, the human race is at the brink – they know they are not alone, but they don’t fully understand who has arrived. Truth of the Divine is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times bestselling video essayist Lindsay Ellis.
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