Tag Archives: not-firefly
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Read December 2022 Recommended for fans of light horror ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I am a horror pansy. Not my genre. But I am a sucker for chicks-in-space, and after I read more than a few reviews … Continue reading
Rules of Redemption by T.A. White
Read February 2022 Recommended for fans of Ilona Andrews ★ ★ 1/2 Short version: what seems like a space-faring buddy flick turns into a court-intrigue romance novel with a deathly Mary Sue. It feels a great deal like … Continue reading
Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik
Read December 2022 Recommended for fans of Ilona Andrews ★ ★ ★ ★ Fun and well-done example of the genre. There’s not a lot of substance to it, but honestly, it met the goal for sheer entertainment. What … Continue reading
You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo
Read March 2022 Recommended, I guess ★ ★ 1/2 First of all, let me do the completely expected and take a moment out of my day and note how Goodreads has completely failed to live up to its function … Continue reading
Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather
Read January 2022 Recommended for fans of the Sisters ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I was going to say something about how this mostly feels like a thoughtful character study, with a little bit of plot thrown in, until I was … Continue reading
We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen
Recommended for Read October 2021 ★ 1/2 Aka: Science Fiction Written by People Who Watched One Episode of TV Sci-Fi It was on page three when I realized Nguyen and I were going to have differences: “And with no foreign … Continue reading
Dead Space by Kali Wallace
Recommended for fans of character-driven mysteries Read October 2021 ★ ★ ★ 1/2 One sentence review: a character study and mystery with the worst detective ever. “From the first moment we’d stepped off the transport ship and onto Nimue, Sigrah … Continue reading
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Recommended for: fans of The Expanse, Star Trek Read in July 2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ Sooner or later, Adrian Tchaikovsky is going to make me learn to spell his name. His output rivals Sanderson’s, but his … Continue reading
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
Edit Edit date and time Read June 2020 Recommended for fans of space adventures! Fast-n-furious! ★ ★ ★ 1/2 This is the literary equivalent of the weekend action-adventure movie. Although initially slow to grab me, in the … Continue reading
Earthrise By M.C.A. Hogarth
Read March 2020 Recommended for fans of light sci-fi ★ ★ ★ Taken for what it is, Earthrise is perfectly enjoyable. The captain of a ragtag ship with a mysterious benefactor has a favor called in–a rescue of … Continue reading