Full Speed to a Crash Landing

, #1

English language

Published 2024 by DAW.

ISBN:
978-0-7564-1946-2
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A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy.

Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter’s rights won’t get her far when she’s got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air. Fortunately for her, help arrives in the form of a government salvage crew—and while they reluctantly rescue her from certain death, they are not pleased to have an unexpected passenger along on their classified mission.

But Ada doesn’t care—all that matters to her is enjoying their fine food and sweet, sweet oxygen—until Rian White, the government agent in charge, starts to suspect that there’s more to Ada than meets the eye. He’s not wrong—but he’s so pretty that Ada is perfectly happy to keep him paying attention to her—at least until she can complete the …

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Science Fiction
  • Romance
  • Novella