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kltemplado's review against another edition
3.0
A good, quick fun read. Not quite as good as A Darkling Sea, but still worth your time.
atris_lauraborealis's review against another edition
3.0
I have to give this book a big round of...meh.
It was surprisingly disappointing to finish the book, not because it was over, but because it could have been so much better. I found myself wanting a lot more out of this story. The language and voice of the story was very spare, I wasn't given an enormous amount of details except when it came to spaceship tech, mining vehicles or flight techniques, all of which were technical and dry. I wanted to know what people were feeling, what the places looked like. The ideas were all there bit they weren't believable because I didn't feel them. I didn't believe the love story that drove the final act because I was informed of it, not shown it. It made the whole novel seem very superficial, like getting a generic news report instead of being told a story.
It was surprisingly disappointing to finish the book, not because it was over, but because it could have been so much better. I found myself wanting a lot more out of this story. The language and voice of the story was very spare, I wasn't given an enormous amount of details except when it came to spaceship tech, mining vehicles or flight techniques, all of which were technical and dry. I wanted to know what people were feeling, what the places looked like. The ideas were all there bit they weren't believable because I didn't feel them. I didn't believe the love story that drove the final act because I was informed of it, not shown it. It made the whole novel seem very superficial, like getting a generic news report instead of being told a story.
mikiher's review against another edition
3.0
Nice plot, good characters, fast-paced. I was satisfied.
aburke2435's review against another edition
5.0
Space pirates!
We finally have hard sci-fi space pirates because they remotely hijack payloads from the Moon, and.drop them in the ocean.
We finally have hard sci-fi space pirates because they remotely hijack payloads from the Moon, and.drop them in the ocean.
carolynf's review against another edition
4.0
The cover is boring and the description sounds like a space opera, but this book was really more of a heist story. It is set in the 2030s, when we have plants set up on the moon to create helium+ to fuel our fusion plants down on Earth. Something like that. So giant helium blimps are piloted remotely, while hackers manage to jack 1 in 16 of them to secret locations so that the helium can be pillaged and sold illegally. One such hacker is David Schwartz, who takes the role of space pirate very seriously. He is hunted by Elizabeth Santiago, who jeopardizes her military career in order to bring him to justice. They also used to date.
Too serious to be considered a beach read, this is the lightest of all techno-thrillers. The tone is more similar to Big Trouble by Dave Barry, or Romancing the Stone or something like that.
Too serious to be considered a beach read, this is the lightest of all techno-thrillers. The tone is more similar to Big Trouble by Dave Barry, or Romancing the Stone or something like that.
tyrshand's review against another edition
3.0
Parts of this audiobook were incredibly exciting and gripping... And parts just dragged... Particularly anytime the phrase "Captain Black, the Space Pirate" or anything ending with "TM" was said. Perhaps it's just that certain phrases shouldn't be spoken aloud more than once. I'm assuming that the whole Captain Black etc thing must have been one handle or something, so it would make more sense in the printed book, but as an audiobook it just seemed very... juvenile.
Otherwise we've got the "Hackers" vibe in space. There are interesting world politics. The new age of piracy is pretty interesting. I didn't care for any of the main characters that much. I'd say the book was a bit low on emotional connection.
Otherwise we've got the "Hackers" vibe in space. There are interesting world politics. The new age of piracy is pretty interesting. I didn't care for any of the main characters that much. I'd say the book was a bit low on emotional connection.
wikiweaponn's review against another edition
1.0
Just awful. This is so poorly written and uninteresting. It reads exactly like something a 6th grader would write during his summer break. I want the hours of my life back I spent on this.
1.3/5
1.3/5
bepisaun's review against another edition
3.0
An interesting take on space travel with equally interesting characters.
carolynlm's review against another edition
3.0
Space pirates stealing helium from the moon, lots of bad ass ladies and quippy dialogue. Also a surprising amount of reflection on white, cis-male tech privilege. Definitely a light, fun summer read.