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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
I loved the groundedness with which the story unfolds, with a far more rational “why they did it” than in many mysteries.
I had trouble following the writing occasionally, which might just be menopause.
I had trouble following the writing occasionally, which might just be menopause.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A Jovian whodunnit. Lots of fun.
Restoration biologists taking too long to make decisions is a major plot point of this story.... Did a restoration biologist write this?
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
Loveable characters:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt
Not sure why the low score on Goodreads for this. I liked the world - very atmospheric and noir. Same with the characters. I am looking forward to the second one!
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
There was a lot that I liked about this book but I really wish that it had been longer. The reveal of the mystery and the love story were kind of anticlimactic as they had little build before the ending. It was such an amazing concept and I actually really enjoyed the characters but I needed more of a slow burn and more emotion and more depth to the investigation. I also would have loved to learn more about the settlement and how the world was set up. It was so short and quick that the climax didn’t even feel like a climax, just like “oh okay that’s the answer”.
That being said I did read the whole thing and I did find myself sucked in for a while. It was really lacking on the world building and truly I think it was about 2.5 stars but I have an extra 0.5 for the space lesbians and the fact that I would date Mossa so hard.
That being said I did read the whole thing and I did find myself sucked in for a while. It was really lacking on the world building and truly I think it was about 2.5 stars but I have an extra 0.5 for the space lesbians and the fact that I would date Mossa so hard.
This newish series is often called a Holmes and Watson but it actually seems a bit more like a short, swift version of Gaudy Night -- but set in a far-future Jupiter, where most of humanity had to take refuge after fucking up Earth. One of the protagonists is an Investigator, a position that seems to grant an awful lot of autonomy, and the other is an academic. Most of the action here takes place in or around a future university -- our heroines' alma mater -- that seems to be modeled more on the Oxford/Cambridge setup than a US one. The one really Holmesian aspect is that each of the sleuths is reluctant to explain their leaps of deduction while they're proving them out... but that's common to the classic mystery genre, and all the better to conceal the earthshaking denouement.