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Stina Leicht: Persephone Station (2021, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers) 4 stars

Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic …

Review of 'Persephone Station' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Hey look at that! It is possible to write an action packed space opera filled with female and non-binary characters! Whodda thunk? (Besides literally every female and nonbinary person I mean.) There were some cool ideas about AI, mech suits, and revivication (not zombies), and the political situation was interesting enough, but unfortunately the ending comes a little too fast for those ideas to get as much attention as I would like. Still, I'm happy to find space adventure fun times without there once being a mention of women being obsessed with their own anatomy, which has been a problem in the last few sci-fi novels I've read where women were allowed to take part in the action. There was even talk of having children that wasn't cringy at all. That feat alone almost makes me want to give it four stars.