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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
What a pleasant surprise to have a mystery and love story wrapped into one fantastic read. I found the author's perspective on both refreshing and the astronomy element heartwarming. I loved this book!
Astronomer Sarah Mayfield may be at the height of her career after a dazzling discovery, but she is in the depths of marital problems and has asked her husband for a divorce. After a scientific conference, she returns home to find her husband missing amidst mysterious circumstances.
This book was tension filled, creative, geeky, fun, scary, and sweet! I loved the retelling of Sarah and Ben's relationship worked in with the high paced mystery! Highly recommend this thriller with heart!
This book was tension filled, creative, geeky, fun, scary, and sweet! I loved the retelling of Sarah and Ben's relationship worked in with the high paced mystery! Highly recommend this thriller with heart!
A beautifully written, fast-paced read that will pull you in from the beginning. Authors are some of my favorite people, I marvel at their ability to research. This book is so well researched, you will have a lesson in the stars in addition to solve a mystery. A marriage is floundering and a restauranteur is suing his partners. From here this read takes off. I did figure out early on who did it, but it didn’t diminish to story line for me. The ending left me with a lot of questions...a sequel?
Thanks to NetGalley, Lake Union Publishing for this ARC. This opinion is mine alone!
Thanks to NetGalley, Lake Union Publishing for this ARC. This opinion is mine alone!
3
Sarah should be ecstatic- she's just made a major breakthrough at her job that's hse's been putting all of her energy towards, which could change everything we know about Earth. However, she's just told her husband that she's not happy. And now her husband has disappeared, leaving in his wake a hacked security system, a glock, and a lot of questions.
I don't really read mystery. Not because I hate them, but because I don't tend to like the writing style, or characters. They tend to be misogynistic or kitsch. But I read a really good YA mystery series and (while waiting for the final book) decided I should pick up another mystery and give the genre as a whole a new try. This book, about an astronomer trying to uncover secrets about her kidnapped husband, seemed devoid of all I feared. And I was pretty much right!
Now, it did have some weird sexual vibes that I didn't dig, so that's one trope down, but generally it skipped everything else. Though, I did dock points for how often Sarah had weird moments memorizing her coworkers eyes.
I liked this book, actually. It wasn't super compelling for me, not really grabbing me until the second part of the story began, but it did get there. And, surprisingly, I loved the characters. Ben is actually a great dude, and Sarah doesn't come across great in her own current voice, but in all her flashbacks of her with Ben they seem good together and she's likeable. It made you root for them.
Another reason I don't read mystery all that often is because I almost always figure out the culprit far before the book reveals it and the tension just sort of dies. This book was not exception. I thought the answer was kind of painfully obvious. But, the tension didn't fully leave, because of the perspective switching and the filling in of holes. I liked the way everything came together.
So, not my favorite read, but certainly not my least favorite. Maybe I just like YA mysteries better? (certainly less affairs and misogyny!)
Sarah should be ecstatic- she's just made a major breakthrough at her job that's hse's been putting all of her energy towards, which could change everything we know about Earth. However, she's just told her husband that she's not happy. And now her husband has disappeared, leaving in his wake a hacked security system, a glock, and a lot of questions.
I don't really read mystery. Not because I hate them, but because I don't tend to like the writing style, or characters. They tend to be misogynistic or kitsch. But I read a really good YA mystery series and (while waiting for the final book) decided I should pick up another mystery and give the genre as a whole a new try. This book, about an astronomer trying to uncover secrets about her kidnapped husband, seemed devoid of all I feared. And I was pretty much right!
Now, it did have some weird sexual vibes that I didn't dig, so that's one trope down, but generally it skipped everything else. Though, I did dock points for how often Sarah had weird moments memorizing her coworkers eyes.
I liked this book, actually. It wasn't super compelling for me, not really grabbing me until the second part of the story began, but it did get there. And, surprisingly, I loved the characters. Ben is actually a great dude, and Sarah doesn't come across great in her own current voice, but in all her flashbacks of her with Ben they seem good together and she's likeable. It made you root for them.
Another reason I don't read mystery all that often is because I almost always figure out the culprit far before the book reveals it and the tension just sort of dies. This book was not exception. I thought the answer was kind of painfully obvious. But, the tension didn't fully leave, because of the perspective switching and the filling in of holes. I liked the way everything came together.
So, not my favorite read, but certainly not my least favorite. Maybe I just like YA mysteries better? (certainly less affairs and misogyny!)