Reviews

Persephone Station by Stina Leicht

themaeyu's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

samwisery's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

morrauror's review

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

jess_mango's review

4.0

3.5 stars

Persephone Station is an often overlooked planet that has suddenly come to the attention of a large corporation. It turns out that there are natural resources that have only recently been discovered. Rosie owns Monk's Bar in the corporate town. This bar is frequented by criminals and their ilk. Rosie asks Angel, the head of a group of assorted outcasts, mercenaries etc. to do a job for them. This group uncovers secrets about Persephone Station and in turn decide to do what they can to protect the planet from the intentions of the big corporation. Like a lot of other sci-fi & space operas, there are AIs with attitudes and AIs longing to be human.

So, this is a space opera with a large cast of mostly female or gender non-binary characters (yay!). There is also a lot of cultural representation here (yay!). There are themes about protecting indigenous residents. There is so much here that I should love. However, this book didn't quite click with me. There was almost a bit too much going on for me. There were a lot of characters to keep track of and despite the length of the book, I don't feel like I was given enough info to really get to know them. The writing was good, and there was lots of action, I just personally would've loved more character development.

Thank you to the publisher for the review copy!

amar_635's review against another edition

5.0

Casual queerness and fighting in space, everything I was looking for. I was pleasantly surprised at the lovable characters I quickly became attached to.

kailina's review

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

harlow_ashes's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

sarahconailte's review

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

4.5

shatterlings's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

whatjuwan's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

 Dividing the book into three parts, the first one was hard to get through. It was slow moving and there was a lot of information thrown at me from different perspectives. This isn't a negative outright but it takes a minute before it comes together. The middle part is where that happens and it starts to really pick up. The final part, the ride towards the end was honestly exhilarating. I literally didn't put it down once I hit the last 200 pages.

While I was down on the first sort of the book, Stina Leicht kept me in it with the wonderful characters and their interactions.

There's a lot in Persephone Station and I can't say it was perfect but, in the end, it was definitely a fun ass ride.