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Testing Pandora Xandri Corelel Book 0 eBook Kaia Sønderby

I loved this.

In "Testing Pandora" we learn how Xandri came to be a valuable crew member of the starship Carpathia and the trials she goes through on her first assignment to prove her worth.

Like book one, the writing is vivid, the characters are excellent, and the story is just a complete delight to read. Xandri is such a fantastic lead and is so easy to like.

I found this to be a completely engrossing futuristic sci-fi tale with the type of writing where I felt sucked into a completely different world every time my eye turned to the page.

No romance is in this story but we see Xandri meet the two characters she's developed feelings for in book one and her first impressions of them which was fun to see.

This is a prequel to the first book but, if a reader is new to the series, starting the series on either book 0 or 1 is fine. Maybe because I read book one first I had some affinity when meeting the characters again in book 0 but I can see the same happening in reverse.

Excellent read. Recommend.


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Testing Pandora Xandri Corelel Book 0 eBook Kaia Sønderby Reviews

Most times a writer's first book is full of mistakes and don't have complete people or worlds. This book was well thought out the people were complete and the world's believable. They were not vague or over the top. I'm looking forward to reading more of her books.
Best Series Ever! Someone give this woman an award or 12. My new favourite author! Highly recommend, and worth even more.
I zipped through this novela; I was so engaged with it! The characterization of Xandri carries the story, which portrays the hopes and struggles of an autistic adult in a respectful and relatable manner. The overarching themes of acting with respect and working towards understanding create a refreshingly positive take on the world and humanity - even as the story refuses to ignore that the worst of humanity exists. And the taste this story gives of the greater universe it's set in, full of all kinds of remarkable species, leaves me hungry for more.
The "Xandri Corelel" books are about an autistic woman who ends up as a xenoanthropology first contact specialist. Having to identify and decode body language by hand has made her particularly skilled at interpreting the body language of new alien species.

This is an "own voices" book - Kaia Sønderby is autistic.

I felt like the author was hitting the "autistic people do have feelings and are not inherently violent, those are misconceptions" button a little too hard, but I can't say I blame her. I also wish the character actually told people what she needed and what to expect from her, like, EVER, but it is explicitly called out that Xandri is terrified of being assertive, probably due to past abuse.

The character who constantly assumes malice from any miscommunication with Xandri has no such excuse, though. And the people around them who do understand what's going on have collectively failed by not pulling that character aside and telling her to quit her bullshit.

Other than frustration with people being people, I really enjoyed these books. If you're looking for more xenoanthropology, you might like Hellspark by Janet Kagan.
I loved Failure to Communicate so much that I rushed to pick up the prequel and read it in one sitting.

I couldn't have enough of the crew in FTC, especially Xandri, Diver and Chui, so this was great. Testing Pandora describes Xandri's joining of the crew, and the it has the exact same characters. It was nice to notice things that were similar in the two books, like Aki and the Captain being protective of Xandri and nudging her to eat.

On the other hand, in some ways this novella felt /too/ similar. After all, four years passed between Testing Pandora and Failure to Communicate - and yet, to me it felt like many of these relationships barely changed in those for years. For example, Christa and Xandri have the exact same rivalry they do four years later. This was a little strange, and I would have love to see more progression/change.

Also - tests or not, but I was surprised that Xandri was immediately offered to be the leader of the team instead of working her way up during those four years. In this situation, I understood Christa's anger better - I'd be pissed too if I had been doing my job well for years and the Captain brought in someone without any experience or formal education to be my boss, no matter how good Xandri did on that one test mission.

Another thing that was strange to me in both books is that literally everyone somehow seems to know Xandri is autistic, even without her telling them? Like, she worries about Diver finding out for example, but then we see in the interlude that Diver already knows. I wasn't sure what to do with that, or how he found out. This is especially strange given that autistics are even rarer here than in the "real" world.

There were several hints and references to the things Xandri had to do or survive, and the abuse she suffered - and while I don't wish to read about these in great detail, I still feel like it would have been interesting if there was a pre-prequel set even further back.

tldr; I loved this story and I loved getting more time with the crew, but it felt less like a prequel, and more like... the beginning of Failure to Communicate. I didn't really feel that there were supposed to be four years between the two books. (As far as I know, this was actually written before FTC, which would explain some of these things... but still, in that case I'm not sure why the author set the book four years later instead of just continuing this one.)

(By the way two books, and I'm ashamed to confess at this point, but I still don't understand how slingspace works.)
I loved this.

In "Testing Pandora" we learn how Xandri came to be a valuable crew member of the starship Carpathia and the trials she goes through on her first assignment to prove her worth.

Like book one, the writing is vivid, the characters are excellent, and the story is just a complete delight to read. Xandri is such a fantastic lead and is so easy to like.

I found this to be a completely engrossing futuristic sci-fi tale with the type of writing where I felt sucked into a completely different world every time my eye turned to the page.

No romance is in this story but we see Xandri meet the two characters she's developed feelings for in book one and her first impressions of them which was fun to see.

This is a prequel to the first book but, if a reader is new to the series, starting the series on either book 0 or 1 is fine. Maybe because I read book one first I had some affinity when meeting the characters again in book 0 but I can see the same happening in reverse.

Excellent read. Recommend.