A review by mariahaskins
Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo

4.0

A pretty addictive read that starts out with someone drifting in space and ends with a totally new perspective on that lonely person in a spacesuit. The publisher taglines this as a "twisty new near-future genre-bending thriller: Knives Out in space with a Parasite twist" and that is a pretty spot-on description. There's a high school reunion in space bringing together a whole lot of rich people with old loves and grudges surfacing. Old sins come home to roost (with a vengeance), and there's a simmering upstairs/downstairs vibe in the slow reveal of the class-differences between the rich guests and the staff working on the ritzy space station they are visiting. I was hooked from the beginning and stayed hooked for a somewhat bumpy space-ride.