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Mur Lafferty: Station Eternity (Paperback, 2022, Penguin Publishing Group) 4 stars

Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove …

I am 361 pages in, and there have been NO CLUES AND NO MYSTERIES TO SOLVE.

One of the praises for this book on the back reads: "If Jessica Fletcher ended up on Babylon 5, you still wouldn't get anywhere close to this deft, complicated, and fast-moving book." It's driving me insane when I see it because I don't know how this book is 'deft' and both 'complicated' and 'fast-moving' aren't inherently good things. But also, it's an insult to both Babylon 5 and Jessica Fletcher because even Jess (who solved some of the most convoluted crimes I ever saw on a detective show) wouldn't have written this shit because she would've found it too convoluted and absurd and WITHOUT A MYSTERY TO SOLVE.