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Adrift
by Rob Boffard
The main protagonist Hannah has a really bad first day at her job as a tour guide on a ship running sightseeing tours around a nebula near a space station. The space station and the thousands of people on it gets blown up along with the jump gate linking this area to the rest of occupied space. Some neat flying from the onboard Captain allows the ship and it's unfortunate passengers to evade the ship trying to eliminate them.
What follows is an OK story about the passengers, how they work together, argue, fight, piece together what's happened and why. Most of it is believable but parts of it do stretch credibility if I'm honest. Hannah being able to fly the ship after a brief onboard tutorial? Yeah right.
The action is fairly claustrophobic and at times quite tense but ultimately just OK without being exceptional. I would've enjoyed more background political intrigue (one of the passengers works for a Senator) but accept that's difficult to work into the narrative when the characters are so far from Earth etc.
What follows is an OK story about the passengers, how they work together, argue, fight, piece together what's happened and why. Most of it is believable but parts of it do stretch credibility if I'm honest. Hannah being able to fly the ship after a brief onboard tutorial? Yeah right.
The action is fairly claustrophobic and at times quite tense but ultimately just OK without being exceptional. I would've enjoyed more background political intrigue (one of the passengers works for a Senator) but accept that's difficult to work into the narrative when the characters are so far from Earth etc.