This was a brilliant and experimental work. It's taken me a week just to process it enough to write a review. Valente constructs the narrative through a series of interviews and screenplays that aren't always linear in chronology. The jumping between scenes and sets of characters does add challenge to following the story, but Valente's beautiful prose pulls the reader along. Once I passed the first third, many of the players and settings had been establish, making it easier to follow. The world she has created borrows from the age of adventure, where all of the known planets are habitable and full of adventure, and then layers the stylings of early 20th century and the politics of Hollywood on top to create a living world with its own history and cares apart from those immediately important to the story. 
 The mystery at the center of the narrative seems even more bizarre. Severin Unck, daughter of famous film director Percival Unck, has disappeared under mysterious circumstances while filming her latest work on Venus. The crew is interviewed, the film of the events was heavily damaged, and so the mystery grows. The novel seeks to explore this mystery through those interviews, but also through Percival Unck's attempts at closure through production of a movie that goes through several major rewrites throughout the book. 
 I greatly enjoyed the interplay of films, flashbacks, and personal tales that were interwoven and build on each other. The details of the larger picture are handed out sparingly and are only made clear when looked at with later information. The culmination of all of these pieces is satisfying, but the reader is still left with the ability to question what is shown as opposed to what actually happened, or how real is a film even if it is a documentary.