Author: Beth Revis
Series: Chaotic Orbits (Book 1)
Publication: DAW (August 6, 2024)
Description: A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy
Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter’s rights won’t get her far when she’s got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air. Fortunately for her, help arrives in the form of a government salvage crew—and while they reluctantly rescue her from certain death, they are not pleased co to have an unexpected passenger along on their classified mission.
But Ada doesn’t care—all that matters to her is enjoying their fine food and sweet, sweet oxygen—until Rian White, the government agent in charge, starts to suspect that there’s more to Ada than meets the eye. He’s not wrong—but he’s so pretty that Ada is perfectly happy to keep him paying attention to her—at least until she can complete the job she was sent to pull off. But as quick as Ada is, Rian might be quicker—and she may not be entirely sure who’s manipulating who until it’s too late…
A phenomenally fun novella that kicks off a trilogy of sexy space heists and romantic tension, Full Speed to a Crash Landing is packed with great characters and full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the end.
My Thoughts: The first novella in the Chaotic Orbits trilogy stars Ada Lamarr. Ada is seconds from death in her holed spaceship before the crew of the government ship also hovering over the wreck of a spaceship on a planet with heavy tectonic activity finally rescues her.
She finds the crew to be both suspicious and secretive. Their mission to recover something from the wreck conflicts with Ada's mission to salvage metals from the wreck. Or does it? She is hired by the crew to assist with a rescue of a box containing the reason the government ship is there.
The story is filled with twists and turns with lots and lots of secrets. Ada isn't at all who she portrays herself to be. There is politics underlying the whole story. The politics concerns jockeying among the planets discovered and populated by people from Earth. And Earth is in danger of being abandoned by those new planetary settlements. It's too polluted and too dangerous to be more than a tourist destination for tourists taken to selected and sanitized places on Earth.
Ada may or may not be working to benefit Earth. Or she may just be out to make money for herself and for her employers. This was a fun story that left me with lots of questions.
I bought this one. You can buy your copy here.
I bought this one. You can buy your copy here.
Sci fi and space fiction seems to be a favorite! Enjoy the rest of the series.
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