Light from Uncommon Stars
A trans youth escapes her home with her violin. A violin teacher seeks a final student to condemn their soul to hell. A space captain seeks to protect her family from a interstellar disease.
I feel that the book is hollow, in that I didn’t feel that anything was ever truly at stake, or the characters ever actually in danger. I didn’t find it particularly satisfying when it ended.
It didn’t work for me.