REVIEW: Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard

Jockeying navigator clans guide spaceships through the Hollows: an area of space populated by the mysterious but deadly creatures known as Tanglers. When a Tangler escapes the Hollows for the first time in living memory, each clan must send a representative to help capture it—but the mission may be doomed and the hearts of two clan juniors may be in danger too.

Viet Nhi is not good with people. Or politics. Which is a problem when the Rooster clan sends her on the mission against her will, for...