Pushing Ice

This is one of the best books i've ever read. It isn't the most complicated story but the combination of a fast pace, great character building and the odd mystery make the 500 odd pages fly by. It's also nice to read a space sci-fi book where the 3 main characters are women. I thoroughly recommend this book even to non sci-fi fans as the sci-fi elements are secondary to the characters relationships and how they are affected by being thrown into an unexpected and crazy situation.

Well this was a disappointment. This book throws you in an awesome mystery and provides 0 answers at the end. 3/4 of the book is wasted with pointless soap opera like human drama frenemy BS. The author could have used those pages to explore the sci-fi elements and actually provide some answers ans closure but instead he chose to bore us with 2 women pickering. There are some interesting things happening in part 3 of the book but it was condensed on a few pages in favour of f...-ing human drama.
Should have DNFed this one.

A compelling premise that is let down by the character of Svetlana. Throughout the book I didn't know whether to be appalled or impressed that the author had created such a despicable, hypocritical and irredeemable character. By the end, the fact that I was actively rooting against her made the last act more frustrating than thrilling.