The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

by John Scalzi

Kiva considered that she might be developing a thing for Fundapellonan, which on one hand would be a very not-Kiva thing to do, but on the other hand who gave a fuck if it was “not-Kiva,” because she wasn’t some fucking fictional character destined to do whatever some goddamn hack wanted her to do.

The author might be having a moment here. A very Red Shirts moment.