![]() ![]() ![]() I though of it like episodes of Lost, where most of the characters get some screen time in every chapter, but each episode would focus on one character and their back story. This planet-hopping plot is a little episodic at times but that didn’t bother me at all. It’s like hopping in a car (or in this case: space ship) with all of your best friends and going on a road trip. On their way, they stop over at different planets to re-stock, re-fuel, meet old friends, and take some time off to not go ship-crazy. They were hired to go to Hedra Ka, a formerly hostile planet, which has just joined the alliance and is now part of the Galactic Commons. ![]() Visiting planets is pretty much what happens until the crew finally reach their destination. ![]() I loved her long before I really knew her, and once we visit her home planet, she becomes all the more awesome and wonderful and just made me want to hug her really hard. The Aandrisk Sissix may look like a feathered lizard but it is her culture that makes her so intriguing. Which in turn angers Jenks who is very much in love with Lovey. Lovey is much more than a computer, although the Galactic Commons are not in agreement over whether sapient AIs should be considered people or things. While Rosemary is the first character to hold on to, simply because she is the first we meet, it takes all of two pages to fall in love with everyone else. And while we all have a favorite Serenity crewmember (Mal), I find myself hard-pressed to pick a favorite from the Wayfarer. Becky Chambers knows that cultural tension, learning new things, adjusting to life in space, and doing a job well can be just as thrilling as intergalactic wars. There is very little violence in this book which makes it all the more praiseworthy that it’s such a page-turner. The comparison to Firefly is mostly due to this – the entire cast is vibrant and three-dimensional. I could tell you about each and every one of these people because Becky Chambers devotes time to all of them and gives them lives, hopes, dreams, a past, and a future. Chef, the – unsurprisingly – doctor and chef, Sissix, the Aandrisk pilot, quirky and life-affirming tech Kizzy, sour Corbin, the navigator Ohan, the second tech, Jenks, the pacifist captain Ashby, and the ship’s AI Lovey (short for Lovelace). It is through Rosemary’s eyes that we get to know the crew of this wonderful, patched-up ship. Rosemary is the newest crew member on the Wayfarer, a ship that punches holes in the galaxy so others can fast-travel through the wormhole. They’ll earn enough money to live comfortably for years… if they survive the long trip through war-torn interstellar space without endangering any of the fragile alliances that keep the galaxy peaceful.But Rosemary isn’t the only person on board with secrets to hide, and the crew will soon discover that space may be vast, but spaceships are very small indeed. Life on board is chaotic, but more or less peaceful – exactly what Rosemary wants.Until the crew are offered the job of a lifetime: the chance to build a hyperspace tunnel to a distant planet. The crew is a mishmash of species and personalities, from Sissix, the friendly reptilian pilot, to Kizzy and Jenks, the constantly sparring engineers who keep the ship running. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that’s seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past.But Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer. When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn’t expecting much. Published by: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015 (2014)įirst sentence: As she woke up in the pod, she remembered three things. I promise it will make you all warm and fuzzy inside. In this case, you should also judge a book by its cover and pick this one up. The reason I didn’t notice this book until somebody slapped a seriously beautiful cover on it is because… well, I’m shallow and covers are what draw me in. If you also like Mass Effect and really good books, I have something for you. ![]()
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