How High We Go in the Dark

More like 3.5 rounded to 4.
It was a very difficult book to read.
At first - because of all the sadness and being so close to an actual pandemic, the book couldn't but make me think what if this really happened. It was just too close to home.
Then - because the characters and their crossovers between chapters started to accumulate and it was a bit difficult to fully grasp their connections.
Overall the book feels a bit underwhelming. The first chapters felt like a terrifying crescendo and I expected something cathartic should happen by the end of the book. The reading got easier after the chapter with the space ship because it became like a normal sci-fi book with little or no connection to the real world and the stories after that were just not that impactful for me (though still very sad). One of the chapters went absolutely over my head, I couldn't see its connection to the rest of the story beyond the fact that it's one more heartbreaking snapshot of someone's life in the wake of the pandemic.
The last chapter was the greatest surprise and the greatest disappointment. It did not make me feel proud for humanity conquering the virus and standing strong together in the face of unthinkable challenge. And it still left lots of questions unanswered.