The novel’s worldbuilding is phenomenal: Hope City’s past and present unfold effortlessly. Luna’s mystery quickly deepens, introducing Eliana to the city’s different elements (including gangsters and an Antarctic separatist movement) and to Sofia, an android that’s surreptitiously broken free from human control. Now many citizens want to move back to the mainland, including Eliana: solving Lady Luna’s case will give her the funds to leave. The park closed in the 1940s and deactivated most of its androids, but the city endured. In this alternate Earth, Hope City began as a Victorian-era amusement park, staffed by humans who immigrated to Antarctica as well as androids built for the park. From this familiar opening, Clarke invites readers into an uncommon place: Hope City, an improbable metropolis built on the Antarctic ice and kept alive by a protective glass dome. Eliana eagerly accepts Lady Luna’s case-and her money-and begins chasing clues into the city’s underbelly. Instead, she takes her dilemma to a private eye, Eliana Gomez. Lady Marianella Luna is a rich, beautiful woman with a problem, one she can’t bring to the cops. A sci-fi mystery involving robots and revolutionaries.
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