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I just started reading. Chapter 1 - it's a good thing he was wearing an exosuit with air supply. And his job just got very personal. The author has my attention.
Fun book. I keep thinking I am hearing the Mission Impossible theme song in the background while I am reading.
Alien abductions! Creative means of space travel! Criminals and mayhem! Coup! Sleazy space bar! Never a dull moment for a repo man.
Finished! I enjoyed this book. Lots of action, humor, and could easily lead into a sequel without being a cliffhanger.
I am listening to a dramatized version of this book and there is music in the background but it's not Mission Impossible. How fun would that be! I'm enjoying it so far.
I finished this book and thought it was a bit violent for my tastes but I really like Fergus. If we read more in the series, i will read with everyone.
I quite liked Finder, so much so that I’ve now listened to two of the sequels. I chose the GraphicAudio full cast performance for them, which really added to the fun. I have the fourth one teed up but it’s the ebook version so I have to read it like a caveman.Storywise the 2nd book is even better than the first, just a fun adventure. Plus a cat joins the crew, because why not?
I finished Finder mid-June and am now reading it again. There were a few things I felt I missed the first time and I'm looking for (and finding) now. Even better the second time around. Then I plan to get the 2nd book in the series.
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Shall we talk about how easily this could be two books? The first half wraps up *just* neatly enough to leave room for a sequel… which is the second half. I’m reminded of hearing the formidably talented Nancy Kress give a talk, and someone in the audience asked about word count; she suggested that if the questioner’s book was too short for publishing standards, write a sequel and stick it on there. (These were not her exact words, but the idea has stuck with me every time I’ve read a book that seems to wrap part way through.)Did other readers feel this way? I enjoyed the second half in a different way than the first, and wondered if others had the same experience?
I was listening, not reading, so I don't have a clear memory of where the first half of the book wrapped up. What events were happening at that point? I wish I could remember but it's been a month or so since I finished and my memory isn't what it used to be!The whole purpose of Fergus's original mission was to return Venetia's Sword so the plot line would not be completed until that happened. I hate unresolved endings so the official end was the most satisfying end for me.
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I don't see that, but my recollection is not always perfect.
Janine wrote: "Shall we talk about how easily this could be two books? The first half wraps up *just* neatly enough to leave room for a sequel… which is the second half. I’m reminded of hearing the formidably tal..."Is it neatly bifurcated like that? If so, it is curious they didn’t release the two halves separately. Novellas have been en vogue for quite a few years now, even moreso after Murderbot’s success, and I recall Brandon Sanderson saying on his old podcast how novellas were doing well for him at least 10 years ago.
I remember at one time Ace Books would take two novellas or short novels (never have been able to figure out what the difference is) and publish them in the same book. After you finished the first story you would flip it over and read the second one. Sounds like this might have been a perfect item for one of those.
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Oh my gosh! I loved Ace Doubles! But I never noticed they were supposed to be two halves of one book, instead of unrelated novellas… If I see one around while this is fresh in mind, I’ll pay attention!
Janine wrote: "Oh my gosh! I loved Ace Doubles! But I never noticed they were supposed to be two halves of one book, instead of unrelated novellas… If I see one around while this is fresh in mind, I’ll pay attent..."Some where two halves of one story. With others the two stories were separate but related to each other. And finally some were comprised to two unrelated stories. The first one I ever read falls into the latter category. The two books/stories were The Sun Smasher by Edmond Hamilton and Starhaven by Ivar Jorgenson, who was really Robert Silverberg.
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From Hugo Award-winning debut author Suzanne Palmer comes an action-packed sci-fi caper starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo man and professional finder.
Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder.
His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He'll slip in, decode the ship's compromised AI security, and get out of town, Sword in hand.
Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of human-inhabited space, a gas-giant-harvesting colony called Cernee. But Fergus' arrival at the colony is anything but simple. A cable car explosion launches Cernee into civil war, and Fergus must ally with Gilger's enemies to navigate a field of space mines and a small army of hostile mercenaries. What was supposed to be a routine job evolves into negotiating a power struggle between factions. Even worse, Fergus has become increasingly--and inconveniently--invested in the lives of the locals.
It doesn't help that a dangerous alien species thought mythical prove unsettlingly real, and their ominous triangle ships keep following Fergus around.
Foolhardy. Eccentric. Reckless. Whatever he's called, Fergus will need all the help he can get to take back the Sword and maybe save Cernee from destruction in the process.