jjcraftsandbooks 's review for:

Adrift by Rob Boffard

4.0

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The concept of this sounded similiar to one of my favourite doctor who episodes (midnight) so as soon as I saw it I had to give it a try. It's about a group of tourists who get stranded on a small tour ship after the space station they were visiting gets attacked. Its set almost completely within the small ship and has multiple point of view characters that are refreshingly different from each other. Including a ten year old boy, sixty five year old woman, a young tour guide and jaded alcoholic hotel critic. It's nice to see such different characters rather than the same old average ones. It did start very slowly as we got to know the characters and they got to know each other and the situation they were in. It's written in present tense which I did find quite jarring at the start as I don't see so many books written in that style but it really worked with the way we learnt about the characters pasts. Unfortunately it did take a while for it to pick up for me and it wasn't until the half way point that things really got intense. The good news is the second half of the book was really great. I loved the idea of a sci fi that was so self contained in a small environment, so often books set in space span such huge areas and concepts but this was a true character based study in a dire situation, I'd recommend it for anyone who doesn't mind a slow build Sci fi and wants a multi pov book where the characters are really different to each other.