The novel is an intimate first person perspective from Ren, and given Ren and her nature, we get a closed, almost claustrophobic look at the world through her eyes. The world outside the borders of the colony and God’s city is, at best, sketched in, suggested, rather than explored and seen. The novel isn’t, as I thought, and frankly purchased the book to read, a deep and abiding exploration and investigation into colony life on a distant planet. Planetfall marks a change from fantasy to science fiction for Split Worlds author Emma Newman. But the arrival of an unexpected visitor to the colony from without is the inciting incident that may upset the unsteady equilibrium that Ren has going. Even more so, Ren has strong secrets about herself, that until now she has managed to keep from the colony. She also has terrible secrets, public, about what is really going on the colony and what happened when the colonists first arrived. And with that visionary in God’s City, communing with God, Ren is one of the remaining pillars of the community, keeping it together. A 3-D printer repairer and expert in recycling, Renata Ghali is an important member of the small, fledgling colony. A colony on an alien planet was founded by a religious visionary inspired by a mysterious incident on Earth to create an expedition to the distant world.
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