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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.75 stars. The main character, although dealing with adult horrors, felt a tiny bit YA in her narrative voice.
Claire signed up for her remote outpost at the edges of human-inhabited space for a reason - she doesn't want to get attached to people. On the last day before her job is going to be automated and she's to go back to society, her crew picks up on a distress signal. They find the motherlode: the Aurora, a luxury space cruiser that mysteriously disappeared 20 years ago. Her crew decides to board to claim their findings, but months later, Claire is held for questioning as the only survivor of her crew.
What a fantastic combination of scifi and horror! I listened to the majority of this in one sitting on a long car ride and I couldn't read it fast enough. Space survival stories just do something for me emotionally - I was so invested in Claire and the crew, wanting them to get out safe even though we know some of them are dead. They stumble across hundreds upon hundreds of dead bodies, which is eerie on its own, but the way that the author unravels their discovery of the state of the ship elevated that. Not only that, but Claire has struggled with hallucinations all her life - and now the crew is having them too. This makes all of the characters unreliable in a way that doesn't feel cliche. I really enjoyed the split timeline of the crew's exploration alongside Claire telling the story of it - that was paced really well. I also liked that it decided to go further than just the crew's exploration. I feel like a lot of authors would have solved it there, but I liked that we went further in time to solve the mystery rather than solving it the first time. Speaking of solving, I thought that the solution to this book was great - it felt logical given the story but wasn't easy to predict. The audiobook narrator was also acting her head off, she did such a good job!
Overall, this was a rollercoaster I didn't want to get off. If you like horror or scifi, I need you to read this!
What a fantastic combination of scifi and horror! I listened to the majority of this in one sitting on a long car ride and I couldn't read it fast enough. Space survival stories just do something for me emotionally - I was so invested in Claire and the crew, wanting them to get out safe even though we know some of them are dead. They stumble across hundreds upon hundreds of dead bodies, which is eerie on its own, but the way that the author unravels their discovery of the state of the ship elevated that. Not only that, but Claire has struggled with hallucinations all her life - and now the crew is having them too. This makes all of the characters unreliable in a way that doesn't feel cliche. I really enjoyed the split timeline of the crew's exploration alongside Claire telling the story of it - that was paced really well. I also liked that it decided to go further than just the crew's exploration. I feel like a lot of authors would have solved it there, but I liked that we went further in time to solve the mystery rather than solving it the first time. Speaking of solving, I thought that the solution to this book was great - it felt logical given the story but wasn't easy to predict. The audiobook narrator was also acting her head off, she did such a good job!
Overall, this was a rollercoaster I didn't want to get off. If you like horror or scifi, I need you to read this!
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Misogyny, Blood, Death of parent
Minor: Animal death, Vomit, Medical content, Cannibalism, Alcohol
Mass hysteria, mass paranoia, hallucinations, inaccurate description of mental illness
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is something I normally don't read. The book was a little hard to get into, but once the book hooks you, it's over. Claire was a TL of a ship, who stops and visits a ship that went missing 20 years ago. What they discover on the missing ship is something beyond their wildest imagination. This book is really well written. Story line draws you in.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes