Project Hail Mary

It would have been 4 stars if not for all the (multiple!) vodka stereotypes. For some reason they got under my skin and my resentment grew stronger with each mention. A genius Russian engineer and all we get to remember her by is that she wanted to die of heroin overdose and basically never went anywhere without ‘very strong' vodka. So furious!!! Want to splash a glass of said vodka in the author's face. Portraying Ilyukhina like that was absolutely uncalled for.