Author: Valerie Valdes
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Date of publication: September 2019
A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers
everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible
foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists,
and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.
Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.
Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.
But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money.
The ship’s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants
her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a
pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising
suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family.
To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her
ship, and the life she’s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the
dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she
imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.
I'm definitely in the minority when I say I didn't enjoy this
book. In the end, I think I wasn't the right audience for it. I
think that maybe Space Opera genre is just not for me. I loved the concept of this story. However, it didn't deliver. It felt to me like I had walked into the middle of a movie and couldn't
orient myself to what was going on. I had to look to see if there was a
book that came out before this one. There was a distinct lack of world building. I also didn't care for the
passages that were in Spanish. I know this is an own voices story,
however, for non Spanish speaking readers like me, I felt like I was missing out
on dialogue. Like I said, I'm just not the right audience for this book. So take my review with a grain of salt and give it a try.
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About Valerie Valdes
Valerie Valdes’s work has been published in Nightmare
Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, and the anthologies She Walks in
Shadows, and Time Travel Short Stories. She is a graduate of
the Viable Paradise workshop and lives in Miami, Florida with her husband and
children.
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