This was a relatively quick read for me and while I was able to figure out some of the plot twists, there were some that I didn't catch until the reveal. Ok so this book gets like a solid 3.8/5 for me. Can she overcome her fears and reach toward the limits of human advancement? Will she chase her ambitions, and risk losing herself in them? Affectingly achronological in its telling, Shoot the Moon daringly explores one woman’s quest for both intellectual fulfilment and romantic love, the price paid for scientific progress, and the heart’s persistent yearning for home. So when her inability to ignore an engineer’s mistaken calculations propels her into a new position, Annie finds herself torn between her ambition, her heart, and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true. Even typing dictation, the work is everything she dreamed, and despite her budding attraction to one of the engineers, she can’t let herself be distracted. Her memories of childhood darkened by loss, she’s left behind her home, her mother, and her first love. When she lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, she feels certain this path is her destiny.

Intelligent but isolated physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. An ambitious and evocative debut novel about one brilliant but lonely NASA secretary’s relentless drive to live a big life in a world that would keep her small.

Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsén