Nov-Dec 2017 READER Diving into the Wreck

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Our Reader Pick for Nov-Dec 2017 is Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Please use this thread to post questions, comments, and reviews, at any time.

I haven't read this one yet. Description is:

Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she s an active historian. She wants to know about the past to experience it firsthand. Once she s dived the ship, she ll either leave it for others to find or file a claim so that she can bring tourists to dive it as well. It s a good life for a tough loner, with more interest in artifacts than people.

Then one day, Boss finds the claim of a lifetime: an enormous spacecraft, incredibly old, and apparently Earth-made. It s impossible for something so old, built in the days before Faster Than Light travel, to have journeyed this far from Earth. It shouldn t be here. It can t be here. And yet, it is. Boss s curiosity is up, and she s determined to investigate. She hires a group of divers to explore the wreck with her, the best team she can assemble. But some secrets are best kept hidden, and the past won t give up its treasures without exacting a price in blood.

[M.]

We rented the movie Valerian. What a disappointment. A great story idea and well done graphics but wrong character actors for the stars. A kid as a major with bags under his eyes and he couldn't act his way out of a bag. What a shame.

[Fiannawolf]

I picked up the trilogy package for this series. I like Boss and crew.

[Dirk]

Hi M.
I agree, it is such a nice story and the graphics where beautiful but the main actor and dialog were horrific! The movie were over 2 hours with a substantial part dedicated to a Rihanna show that came straight from Penn & Teller.

[Audrey]

I read Diving into the Wreck a number of years ago. My library had it so I just checked it out to read again.

[Mervi]

I've listened this whole series on audio and I'm currently listening the newest book. I've enjoyed the series alot. This first book was already great with Boss and the whole crew investigating the ancient spaceship.

[Ally]

I read it a while ago and I really enjoyed the mix between SF and archeology.
The story evolved in an strange direction.
You have to read the serie with the short stories. You ended up with different points of view.

[Laz]

KKR is a wonderful writer, and I like this series the best. This first story is really intense with the intricacies and challenges of Diving.

[Michael]

I've never heard of this one, but it looks like a lot of fun. Can't wait to start reading!

[Audrey]

I had forgotten that the format of this book is really three novellas bound together rather than one novel. I am about 1/2 way through and wondering why Boss didn't ask a few more very pertinent questions.

Also I keep looking for the captain and crew of another ship to appear, but maybe this happens in the next book, which I also read a few years ago.

[Audrey]

Boss really started getting on my nerves this time. She seemed more neurotic than I remember.

I have decided I like the Retrieval Artist series by this same author better.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I'm reading this one now. It was very hard getting into it and I put it down to read other books more than once before it finally got to the action, or even to a second character. First person present tense is extremely hard to write well, and there was way too much background at the beginning.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Finished. I found it worth reading once but don't plan to reread it. First person present tense annoys me. Since I bought the box set, I'll probably read the next two in the series.

I also find it annoying that the main character's name was never revealed. It strikes me as a gimmick.

For anyone deciding whether to start reading it, if you find the first part boring, skip to the middle of chapter two to get an intro to the first team, or chapter three for approaching the wreck with the team. There is a lot of action in the book but also a heckuva lot of being careful and dealing with nightmares after someone wasn't careful.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Wow but City of Ruins is a page turner! I stayed up past midnight to finish it. 4 stars. I'll be rereading that one in a year or two!

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Book 3 is Boneyards, and isn't grabbing me the was book 2 did. The point of view changes, which is ok, but there are way too many flashbacks going back different numbers of years. Confusing.

[Geneva]

I've just bought this one on kindle to read after seeing this thread. Sounds really good and I'm pretty excited about it. Is there anything I should read first, or can this be read with no prior knowledge of the main character/series?

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Diving into the Wreck doesn't need anything else read first.

[Audrey]

When I was at the library getting Diving into the Wreck, I noticed another book, Snipers, by KKR on the shelf next to it. This wasn't one i read before so I checked it out, too. I am now halfway through Snipers. It is not Space Opera, more detective time travel, but it is a well written page-turner.

[Laz]

KKR writes several genres under different pen names. I haven't read Snipers yet. Her Retrieval Artist series is also good (though I like the Diving series better). She also has a mystery series and some stand-alone books. I'm a fan.