A review by tessisreading2
Space Deputy by Jenny Schwartz

3.0

Too much telling - like the other series of Schwartz’s I’ve read, there’s a LOT of exposition in here. This one was also hampered, like that one, by not enough “futurism” in some of the world-building - in this one, the heroine explicitly wears 1950’s-style clothing for dressing up, which doesn’t make a ton of sense (why did one specific decade become The Fashionable Retro Look) and also just seems uncomfortable. Imagine navigating a space station in spike heels, you know? The heroine also sets herself up as a part-time “information broker” literally RIGHT as she turns up in a totally new, unfamiliar place about which she knows virtually nothing. How on earth would she have any information worth brokering? Everything is wrapped up incredibly neatly, and the romance happens without much foreshadowing beyond "of course there will be a romance." I don't want to give it two stars because there's nothing actually wrong with it and I enjoyed reading all the way through, but it felt like a first draft in a lot of respects.