I tried. 
 I guess it's just a matter of timing and perfectly misaligned expectations, but I couldn't bring myself to want to get into this novel no matter how much I tried. It was super-lite. The SF portions were too little, too contrived, and kinda worthless as a plot-device, while the character-heavy literary fiction feels never gripped me and from everything I've read in other reviews, it wasn't ever going to. 
 I might have made a good go at this and suffered through to the end if there was any kind of indication of a huge twist, some valuable insight, or a simple "I love this character"... but it looks like this book isn't even going to have something like that in it for me. So I'm calling it off. It's me, not you, The Space Between the Stars. I don't want to be bored to death. 
 Sorry!