Amazingly told!

Bittersweet as Angel’s Fruit is an emotional sci-fi novel telling about the final chapter of humanity on Earth and its road toward a new beginning. Earth and its people are being destroyed by climate collapse, war, and overpopulation, there is no future left. The only hope lies somewhere else, to start again.
Sci-fi is a genre I would like to read more of and was happy to receive this book from the author. What intrigued me from the start was the sentence after the synopsis: Does humanity even deserve to be saved? And after having read the story, I am still not sure about it. Here is what this great book is about.
Ethan Walker, a brilliant but conflicted engineer, is chosen to join the New Earth Mission: a one-way journey to Proxima Centauri b, where 100 of the planet’s best and brightest will attempt to build a new home. As the crew enters cryosleep, Ethan documents his thoughts in personal diary entries, mission logs, and fragments from a fading Earth.
But survival isn’t guaranteed. The new planet is untested, communication with Earth is lost, and tensions begin to rise. In the silence of space, Ethan is left to confront not just the mission’s challenges, but also the deeper question: Is humanity worth saving at all?
From the start you feel the importance of what is being told, the grandness of the story and its topic. When you read through Ethan's journal, the articles and in between the characters interactions... it all feels so vivid, heavy and in between the lines the emotions of hope, importance, goodbyes and not knowing what will happen if and when they arrive. Just like the feeling of when you are following every piece on tv about a team of people who are going to leave to go to the moon and the launch is about to happen. It is huge, it is sooo interesting, scary, amazing .... and through it all you feel every emotion going through your body. Just like a launch at Cape Canavaral!
This wasn't just a story for me, it was really happening. And when half way through the story the crew needs to go through the revival after thirty years of having been in a cryosleep...read the story to feel it too, something starts to linger around you. A feeling of doom while you can't identify what it is. You will not want to stop reading!
I have loved reading this book from the first page till the end. The topic is maybe not so original, but how it has been told, what happens..was done in a very original, unexpected way. And if humanity deserves to be saved or not, I am still not sure.