![]() She is close to losing her job when she has given one last chance a salvage gig with a partner no one can stand. She is a drunk and fuck-up with a very interesting past I won't spoil. She is sent to clean up ships that lost all the crew. So Roslyn is a deep space salvager and that gives the book it's space truckers feel. I think this effective and used for moments of suspense and character. That said the narrative is a third person and we get many points of view. ![]() The characters are well developed but Roux gives lots of attention and detail to our main point of view character Roselyn. ![]() We are pushed into this world and have to hold on for most of the experience. The prose is not overly pretty but I enjoyed the fact that Roux is a simple but confident storyteller. The opening pages drip with gruesome details and the writing is pretty great. That said I can't review this without crossing that line for you. ![]() I think I benefitted from not having an idea of what the plot or comparisons were. Had I read multiple blurbs that all compared to ALIEN I might have spent the whole time waiting for the monster to show up. In fact, I went into this novel totally cold not knowing a single thing about the plot just knowing it was science fiction from the super cool looking cover. ![]() I didn't read the many, many blurbs and I am kinda glad I went that way. So you see social media does pay off sometimes. I just picked it up when I saw it on the library's new releases and recognized the author from Twitter. ![]()
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