Atlas Alone

This book takes place 6 months after the events of Planetfall #2 ("After Atlas"). We have Dee as our main character and she gets unknowingly involved in a suspected murder inside the colony ship. As we know from the previous book, Dee is an avid gamer, and she soon joins elite game servers, or "leets" where the gamers real life abilities are represented in game, making these games extremely challenging. This is another unputdownable book by Emma Newman with virtual reality immersive games, discussions about AI and consciousness, corporate indenture, social justice and revenge. It's all intertwined with the main character's journey confronting her traumatic past while she investigates and plans for the future. It's intense, thrilling and has the ending was breath taking.

If I was rating Atlas Alone as just part of the series, it would get a solid 4*, but as a standalone book it was exciting, fascinating and I could not put it down. It delves into some deep themes, has a tight plot that carries you along and keeps the overall Atlas story ticking along.

There are so many story threads dangling from all four books, and each book so far has been so different, that this series has a lot more to give.