Bluebird

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14:05, 450 pages

English language

Published Feb. 7, 2022 by Angry Robot.

ISBN:
978-0-85766-966-7
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4 stars (7 reviews)

Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space! Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a gunslinging, thieving, rebel with a cause, doesn’t give a damn about them and she hasn’t looked back since abandoning her faction three years ago. That is, until her former faction sends her a message: return what she stole from them, or they’ll kill her twin sister. Rig embarks on a journey across the galaxy to save her sister – but for once she’s not alone. She has help from her network of resistance contacts, her taser-wielding librarian girlfriend, and a mysterious bounty hunter. If Rig fails and her former faction finds what she stole from them, trillions of lives will be lost--including her sister's. But if she succeeds, she might just pull the whole damn faction system down around their ears. Either way, she’s going to do it with panache and pizzazz.

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reviewed Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot

A Tale of True Gay-Straight Alliance

3 stars

This book is about love and friendship. It's really sweet that way. Two kickass women luck into finding each other when they both really need it, and then support each other through a series of adventures. One has a girlfriend, the other is married to a man.

Unfortunately, while the emotional states and connections of the characters are resonant and believable, the action and the plot are less so. Both heroine and villain suffer from overly revealing monologue syndrome, and some action-packed sequences contain elements that are simply impossible - for instance, the idea that someone could yell your name, slide you a gun, and you could pick it up and shoot it in less time than it takes for a person with an axe in their hand, already raised, to lower the axe to the ground.

Good fun, but a little incoherent.

reviewed Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot

Review of 'Bluebird' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

A fun space adventure novel set in a forever war between 3 factions whose motivations and backdrops seem somewhat thin but are good enough for a relatively low scopes, tight cast adventure such as this one. It feels like the pacing and writing could be polished a bit and some portions are longer than I wished but the awkward bits never really get in the way for long enough to detract from the Firefly-ish, Han Solo-ish feeling story.

reviewed Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot

Review of 'Bluebird' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Very fun sci-fi with character-driven story and an entertaining narrative voice. I loved these characters and was rooting for them throughout the book. An excellent standalone, but I would gladly read more from this world or set of characters.

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Subjects

  • Romance
  • LGBTQIA+

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