puttingwingsonwords 's review for:

Moon Dust in My Hairnet by J.R. Creaden

4.0

hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

While we’re in the process of moving, I’ve been watching a lot of Dimension 20 and listening to podcasts and audiobooks. One of those audiobooks was Moon Dust in My Hairnet by J. R. Creaden, about a young autistic lunch lady on a newly founded moon base.

Lane’s older sister was a brilliant and famous inventor and the founder of the Lunar Trust, the moon’s first independent community—until she was killed. Lunar Trust One has to find its feet without her, as does Lane.

I love autistic sci-fi!!! Moon Dust in My Hairnet has everything: a cast full of autistic people, polyamory, grief counselling, a group of scrappy twenty-somethings working together against a Rich Bastard(TM).

It’s a book about a future where humanity is living through disaster after disaster, where enemies follow the Lunar Trust community even to the moon, but where ultimately hope and cooperation prevail.

I did think some of the ending was maybe wrapped up a little too nicely for my tastes, but that’s really a small detail. I definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for more queer, autistic and polyamorous sci-fi!

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