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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was an enjoyable mystery with a surprise twist at the end. Although this doesn't hit like The Lady Astronaut series, it's still a good book, and has Kowal's characteristic combination of imagination and science. How often does the Coriolis effect matter to important plot points? Not often enough, I tell you, but Kowal is working to make it happen!
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
I enjoyed this a bit more than I originally thought I would from the first chapter. This book is essentially a murder mystery on a space cruise. Tesla and Shal are newly weds trying to hide their identities and pretend to be normal people on their honeymoon when they get involved in solving a murder.
Murder mysteries are generally not something I’m particularly interested in. The characters are also extremely rich and privileged which I also generally do not like reading about. This was especially exacerbated by the fact that Tesla uses all her wealth and connections the entire book to avoid her and Shal getting treated like normal people. The book also doesn’t provide any commentary on how being rich and avoiding consequences is a bad thing. The book essentially presents using an expensive lawyer for special treatment to be good because you know the protagonists are innocent.
There was good disability representation in the book along with a service dog.
The mystery ended somewhat abruptly and anticlimactically. It wasn’t that they actually ever figured it out but somehow stumbled across the answer.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I see what this book was trying to do with gender identity, but it did it with all the subtlety of an email signature