It’s bittersweet sitting down to write this review, because Space Academy Graduates is the last book in the series, and it has been such a fun ride from the beginning. Vance Turbo, Hero of Spaaace, and his crew are back at Space Academy, the place where it all started, to investigate the murder of Earth’s […]
Artemis is the first colony on the moon. Jazz is a criminal but not a mean one. She does courier work delivering packages, and smuggles contraband. She just wants to survive a little better off than before. So she takes a very risky job of sabotage for a big payoff. Jazz is incredibly smart […]
I’ll be upfront that I wrote this review way too long after listening, so I’m a little light on details, but I’m confident I got the important part right, which is that I really enjoyed it. I’m always happy to spend more time with Vance Turbo, and this time I’m glad I didn’t wait as […]
Where Tamsyn left off, Journey begins. A planet – overtaken by a disease that turns humans into a mutant zombie horde and the disorder as civilization has fallen world-wide- has become a dangerous place, but a secret Sectors Special Forces team is on a mission and find love along the way. Veronica Scott’s sci-fi romances […]
At the end of life, hindsight really is 20/20. That’s the central premise of Matt Haig’s The Midnight Train. Wilbur has lived what looks like a successful life, but as he boards the Midnight Train in his eighties, he’s forced to confront a harder question. Did he live a full life?“ “Life can only be […]
Murderbot Diaries series is one I started reading after getting a free ebook of All Systems Red. I was so hooked and have continued reading over the years. I just adore the grumpy Murderbot who wants to be left alone to watch its shows. The straightforward comments on its own situation is fabulous and funny. […]
After recently devouring the last installment in the series, Tamsyn, Escape to Nowhere came as a welcome return to the dark, exciting world of the sci-fi post-apocalyptic adventures of the Planet of Last Resort Series by Veronica Scott. Escape to Nowhere follows Tamsyn in the series, but is chronologically happening parallel and then maybe a […]
I bought this years ago and finally I am reading The Martian. I didn’t really know the plot but it’s simple enough, Mark gets left behind on Mars when there is a storm. He figures out how to live with having enough supplies until the next mission there. As an engineer and the fixit guy […]
After the pulse-pounding adrenaline rush that was Arrival, the Planet of Last Resort series takes a step back in time and shows the situation as it happened on the planet from a different perspective. Veronica Scott has explored blending genres in early series associated with her The Sectors series and in the spinoff, Planet of […]
It has been over ten years since I first read Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy, which I loved. The series introduced a colonized planet with a fascinating quirk: all the human men are part of “the Noise”, a constant stream of thoughts, images, and emotions that everyone can hear. For a society not raised with […]