mikerickson reviewed Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis (Chaotic Orbits, #1)
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3 stars
Kind of feels unfair to attempt to review this one because I don't feel like I read a book so much as the first third of a book. And it just so happens that this is the first in a trilogy. Go figure.
This was a book club read for when the genre wheel landed on "romance," which feels like a swing and a miss for me in that department because the central relationship here isn't given enough room or time to develop (an arc that almost definitely gets fleshed out in the subsequent books I'm assuming). But if you go into it instead expecting a science fiction environmental/survival heist story set on a hostile planet... it's actually pretty decent! Doubly so if you're like me and enjoy female leads like Ada who are allowed to and not afraid to make mistakes and just be kind of an overall chaotic …
Kind of feels unfair to attempt to review this one because I don't feel like I read a book so much as the first third of a book. And it just so happens that this is the first in a trilogy. Go figure.
This was a book club read for when the genre wheel landed on "romance," which feels like a swing and a miss for me in that department because the central relationship here isn't given enough room or time to develop (an arc that almost definitely gets fleshed out in the subsequent books I'm assuming). But if you go into it instead expecting a science fiction environmental/survival heist story set on a hostile planet... it's actually pretty decent! Doubly so if you're like me and enjoy female leads like Ada who are allowed to and not afraid to make mistakes and just be kind of an overall chaotic mess: Not someone you'd wanna be friends with in real life, but definitely someone you'd love to keep tabs on from a distance.
Beyond that, it's a super short book and ends on an obvious cliffhanger, but you'd probably get a lot more out of it if you commit to the entire series (which comes in at a total 496 pages by my count). Maybe I'll get around to it someday.