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An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic asteroid mine in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day.
Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. 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 aster ...more
Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. 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 aster ...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Expected publication:
March 2nd 2021
by Berkley Books
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Dec 13, 2020
Roberta R. (Offbeat YA)
rated it
really liked it
Shelves:
adult,
dystopian,
edge-of-society,
ethics,
horror-or-gore,
mc-female,
pov-1st-person,
queer,
sci-fi,
thriller-or-mystery
Mini-blurb: A 30-something AI research engineer, the survivor of a space terrorist attack that left her with a metal-patched body and destroyed her creature and her career, investigates a fellow survivor's death on a small asteroid and stumbles onto a web of conspiracies and unexpected finds.
***
Rated 4.5 really.
A tight space thriller with surprisingly moving moments (I say "surprisingly" because heck, we're talking about machines - and yet) and a (literally) damaged but stop-at-nothing protagoni ...more
***
Rated 4.5 really.
A tight space thriller with surprisingly moving moments (I say "surprisingly" because heck, we're talking about machines - and yet) and a (literally) damaged but stop-at-nothing protagoni ...more

I don't know why but I went into this book thinking that it was a sequel to Salvation Day but it's not.
It's basically a corporation murder mystery that takes place in space. Not that there is anything wrong with that but it wasn't what I typically read. That being said I did really like the main character Hester. She was depressed about her situation but still got the job done. ...more
It's basically a corporation murder mystery that takes place in space. Not that there is anything wrong with that but it wasn't what I typically read. That being said I did really like the main character Hester. She was depressed about her situation but still got the job done. ...more

Dec 10, 2020
Brianna Donato
added it
Dnf'd at 45% almost halfway through this book and while there is a murder to be solved it just feels like things are moving a little too slowly.
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Kali Wallace studied geology and geophysics before she decided she enjoyed inventing imaginary worlds as much as she liked researching the real one. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, F&SF, Asimov's, Lightspeed Magazine, and Tor.com. She is the author of the dark, fantastical teen novels Shallow Graves (2016) and The Memory Trees (2017), as well as the middle grade fantasy adventure C
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