If you like how murder mysteries unfold, slow but steady, than really ramp up at the end, I think you will like the feel of this book. In the end I would recommend this to sci-fi fans and murder mystery fans. Hester is queer and talks a little about her past fling with a non-binary secondary character, she obviously cares about, but there are no explicit sex scenes or even kissing. For romance fans out there, sorry but there is no romance. A few dead bodies and some violence, does not equal horror to me. If you are looking for a fast paced thriller, you might be disappointed as that is not what this book really is. It is not until the final third of the book that the pace really picks up and has some action and light thriller moments. This is a medium paced book that takes its time to investigate the murder mystery. I do want to mention that while some people used the horror and thriller tag, I’m 50/50 on that. But beyond that I was quite happy with the overall writing of the book. I know that it’s hard not to have info dumps in spec-fic books, but I think this could have had a smoother approach. I wished Wallace would have taken her time uncovering some of the facts instead of just in blocks of information. However, it was a little info dumpy at times. I loved the mix and I found the book to be very readable. It’s not too often you get a good sci-fi story that is also a murder mystery. I thought the premise was great and I was hooked instantly. When a suspicious death report comes across her desk, Hester knows her life may never be the same. Hester’s new job is as a security officer who investigates crimes. The medical bills were astronomical so Hester has to work off the debt with the corporation. After losing almost the whole side of her body, a corporation paid for her to be repaired with robotic parts. The main premise is about Hester, an AI scientific expert, who was caught in a terrorist attack. When I saw that this was a sci-fi/murder mystery, with a queer main character, well this just screamed “read me!” While this book had a few mini bumps for me, in the end I was glad I read it. I wanted to catch up on some series that I’ve started, I want to read more YA, and I really wanted to read more spec-fic. I made myself three reading goals for 2021. But catching a killer is only the beginning of Hester's worries, and she soon realizes that everything she learns about her friend, his fellow miners, and the outpost they call home brings her closer to revealing secrets that very powerful and very dangerous people would rather keep hidden in the depths of space.ģ.75 Stars. Hester joins the investigation to find the truth, both about her friend's death and the information he believed he had uncovered. She's surprised to hear from an old friend and fellow victim of the terrorist attack that ruined her life-and that surprise quickly turns to suspicion when he claims to have discovered something shocking about their shared history and the tragedy that neither of them can leave behind.īefore Hester can learn more, her friend is violently murdered at a remote asteroid mine. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer maximize its profits. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt. Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day.
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