book: The Children of Ruin , Adrian Tchaikovsky

not sure how many people were introduced to Tchaikovsky's work along the lines of: the first book is about sophont spiders, and the second one is about sophont octopi. You might wonder if the premise gets stale. the thing about these books is that there is so much more that explodes out of that single premise. Even while keeping the "collision course" formatting of the previous book (where the…