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A review by kanejim57
Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols
5.0
Catherine Wells has returned to earth after a decade long space mission that went deadly wrong...and she cannot remember what happened to her fellow crew members only that they were dead and she was still living. Did she kill them? Or did something else kill them? She cannot remember.
Lisa A Nichols' sci-fi thriller Vessel ( Atria/Emily Bestler Books/Alloy Entertainment (May 2019) is a tense and edgy novel about the challenges and unknown of deep space travel and what humanity might face if one day they go that far.
Assuming she and her crew have died in some kind of deadly accident, Wells' miraculous return is fraught with new challenges in the present as well as in the past as she starts to put her life back together with her husband who is in a serious relationship with a close friend and her daughter who is now a teenager. And there is a senior NASA official named Cal Morganson who is constantly watching her and trying to figure out if she is lying and knows more that she is letting on.
As story winds to an unexpected ending, Morganson and Wells find themselves working together to deal with a force that not only keeps Wells' life in danger but also that of the crew who have been launched toward the same system Wells returned from.
Vessel is a novel that has a slow, building climax with little hint as to the final outcome regarding the search for answers. Credible characters and a great plot add to this novel.
I liked this novel as it was a different kind of sci-fi fiction in which the human element and psyche is given thorough treatment.
I gave this book a five-star review on Goodreads.
Note: I received an electronic copy of this book as an ARC from the publisher via Net Galley in exchange for a review. I was not required to write a positive review.
Lisa A Nichols' sci-fi thriller Vessel ( Atria/Emily Bestler Books/Alloy Entertainment (May 2019) is a tense and edgy novel about the challenges and unknown of deep space travel and what humanity might face if one day they go that far.
Assuming she and her crew have died in some kind of deadly accident, Wells' miraculous return is fraught with new challenges in the present as well as in the past as she starts to put her life back together with her husband who is in a serious relationship with a close friend and her daughter who is now a teenager. And there is a senior NASA official named Cal Morganson who is constantly watching her and trying to figure out if she is lying and knows more that she is letting on.
As story winds to an unexpected ending, Morganson and Wells find themselves working together to deal with a force that not only keeps Wells' life in danger but also that of the crew who have been launched toward the same system Wells returned from.
Vessel is a novel that has a slow, building climax with little hint as to the final outcome regarding the search for answers. Credible characters and a great plot add to this novel.
I liked this novel as it was a different kind of sci-fi fiction in which the human element and psyche is given thorough treatment.
I gave this book a five-star review on Goodreads.
Note: I received an electronic copy of this book as an ARC from the publisher via Net Galley in exchange for a review. I was not required to write a positive review.