Monday, September 22, 2008

Let's kick some alien butt!

Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre

I loved last year's Grimspace with the very strong female heroine and was thrilled to have a new one to enjoy this weekend. I didn't like this one quite as well since it ended rather darker than I enjoy, but I can't wait until the next one - I checked, it's due out April of next year!
Sirantha Jax was busted out of prison by March, a former mercenary, in the first book. Now she's being offered the role of ambassador to an alien world and someone wants her to fail! Her ex-husband had her declared dead so he could wipe out her bank account so with no money and not really being needed as a "jumper", the person to guide a starship through grimspace, she decides to accept. Of course, things don't go well and soon she has more people depending on her. She will encounter flesh eating aliens, nasty Mafia types with their teeth into her mother, a colonial world in the middle of a civil war and more nasty humans. What next?

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