A review by celiaedf12
DarkShip Thieves by Sarah A. Hoyt

1.0

I read this for the Women in Science Fiction book club, and was pretty put off by the cover (which looks very trashy), but I thought it couldn't be that bad. But yes, it was pretty bad. Athena, our irritating heroine who has amazing abilities with machines, gets kidnapped by genetically altered humans, has to stay on their world for a while, heads back home, has a showdown with her evil father... that sounds kind of exciting, right? But the plotting either drags or races way too fast, the showdown that the entire novel builds up to takes about half a page, and the romance was awful (I disliked both characters, so I guess maybe that's what they saw in each other). Very disappointing.