Athena’s Comments (group member since Sep 01, 2016)

Athena’s comments from the The Long Way... To a Common Orbit flash group group.

Am I the only one who thinks 'red coast bugs' seem like lobsters (aka water bugs)? For Rosemary's welcome dinner I absolutely see them eating grilled lobster! Love the idea of cheap, easy protein bugs as well-suited to space travel, also the 'algae as fuel' (tho granted it doesn't get explained). Nice touches.

Good points! I'm enjoying the rich character-building and the way we see Ashby-the-man become Ashby-the-captain right at the beginning. Loved Ashby's POV when Corbin was complaining about the new hire: "That was the warning flag, the I can't work under these conditions flag that indicated Corbin was about to go nonlinear. It was time to get him back on the rails." Hooked!

'Going nonlinear' is making an appearance at the next family get-tother. :)

Getting slight & delightful whiffs of Firefly/Serenity & Chris Wooding's Tales of the Ketty Jay series. Like a light cinnamon dust on a perfect little cookie though: this is decidedly it's own cookie. I'm loving on these characters, except algae-guy of course.

At p.148 & MUST slow down! :) Too easy to keep reading: excellently well done science fiction + well thought out characters. Heaven!

Woot for timing - got Long Way at county library y'day!

Hi, I'm Athena: insomniac book reader. Yum, gummybears!