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A review by geekwayne
Finder by Suzanne Palmer
3.0
'The Finder' by Suzanne Palmer was the October pick for my online book club.
It's a SF novel about a sort of repo man in space named Fergus Ferguson. He is on his way to recover a stolen space ship, but before that can happen, he is sabotaged and left for dead. He finds himself amongst a family of clones, in a group of space stations with quesionable food and a cryptic cipher to solve that will get him access to the ship. His capers lead him to devise odd inventions, ala McGyver, and to think on his feet a lot.
I liked it well enough, but there were numerous deaths of groups of people off on the sides of the novel. This bothered me because I was never led to care about them and the brutality felt a bit too casual. Still, I might be in for a next adventure because the story sped by nicely.
It's a SF novel about a sort of repo man in space named Fergus Ferguson. He is on his way to recover a stolen space ship, but before that can happen, he is sabotaged and left for dead. He finds himself amongst a family of clones, in a group of space stations with quesionable food and a cryptic cipher to solve that will get him access to the ship. His capers lead him to devise odd inventions, ala McGyver, and to think on his feet a lot.
I liked it well enough, but there were numerous deaths of groups of people off on the sides of the novel. This bothered me because I was never led to care about them and the brutality felt a bit too casual. Still, I might be in for a next adventure because the story sped by nicely.