A review by skylar2
Fortuna by Kristyn Merbeth

4.0

This was a good space opera story from a first-time author. The characters were excellent, and the story was fast-paced and entertaining if a bit predictable. There were a few unbelievable/incongruous elements —

Spoiler

the J.J. Abrams-esque trope of having all planets involved be close to each other; an alien super weapon that is both biological and geological and meterological; destroying the alien super weapon requires destroying the ship but somehow can't just be burned up in the engines?

— but nothing that would deter me from reading the next book.