A review by tome15
Off Rock by Kieran Shea

2.0

Shea, Kieran. Off Rock. Kindle, 2017.
I picked up Off Rock because I remember liking the first novel in the Koko series. But this one needed a few more drafts at the very least. Our hero is a disgruntled minor somewhere in interstellar space. He wants to smuggle gold back to earth so he can retire. So far so good. But the characters are all clichés that one might find in a pulp western. Very little attention has been paid to world building. Why is gold more valuable than, say, rare earths? The style endeavors to be hip and punky, but the jokes don’t fit the characters. 2 stars.