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kthebookwyrm 's review for:
Grimspace
by Ann Aguirre
You can check out my full ranty review over at my channel: https://youtu.be/6vefjM4e3QA
This book was so bad, I honestly can't think of a single thing I liked about it. Normally I would have DNF'd and moved on, but I was reading it for a readathon and didn't feel like finding a different book to use for the challenge. Looking back, maybe I should have?
We'll start with Sirantha since she's the main character. She spends the whole book with no agency, blames herself constantly for other people actions and decisions, blames herself for her own actions she had literally no way of knowing would cause problems because no one around her bothers to tell her or warn her about anything. She also isn't much of a thinker, as evidenced bythe fact that she never stops to think why the corporation she works for would want to crash a ship and kill everyone on board. Apparently she assumed they did it for fun.
March, the pretty obvious eventual love interest, is the gruff, kind of a jerk captain who is actually so kind underneath and is super heroic once you get past his prickly exterior. Oh, and in case you were wondering, he has a saturnine smile which the author feels the need to tell us multiple times. I had to look up the definition because she kept using it so often that I thought maybe it was important somehow. It just means bitter or gloomy. Cool.He's also psychic and can read Sirantha's thoughts all the time except when it's convenient for him not to. It's also a huge secret, but he's constantly responding to Sirantha's thoughts in front of other people and no one notices. Are all of these characters oblivious?
Now the main part of this book — the romance. You probably thought I was going to say the supposed plot summarized on the back of the book, but you would be wrong. It's really all about Sirantha and March and their bickery, bantery flirt fest, a hate-to-love relationship culminating in the best sex and also best almost-sex ever. Safe to say, I spent a lot of the time reading this book shaking my head and rolling my eyes.
The plot is pretty thin. The crew of the Folly manages to sneak on board a Corporation ship, March sneaks to Sirantha's cell, breaks her out, and gets them back to the ship almost entirely without being noticed. An alarm goes off while they're heading back to the ship but the "grey men" who are super determined security guards or something, take a really long time to get to the hanger, allowing for a prolonged conversation once aboard. Then they head off to some random planet and we eventually learn the whole point of the break out — they want Sirantha to teach other jumpers at some as-yet unestablished Academy, thus breaking the Corporations stranglehold on grimspace travel, and by extension trade and pretty much any other facet of life requiring interstellar travel.
But none of that is actually important. It's all about Sirantha and March eventually, finally, hooking up and being in L-O-V-E.
This book was so bad, I honestly can't think of a single thing I liked about it. Normally I would have DNF'd and moved on, but I was reading it for a readathon and didn't feel like finding a different book to use for the challenge. Looking back, maybe I should have?
We'll start with Sirantha since she's the main character. She spends the whole book with no agency, blames herself constantly for other people actions and decisions, blames herself for her own actions she had literally no way of knowing would cause problems because no one around her bothers to tell her or warn her about anything. She also isn't much of a thinker, as evidenced by
March, the pretty obvious eventual love interest, is the gruff, kind of a jerk captain who is actually so kind underneath and is super heroic once you get past his prickly exterior. Oh, and in case you were wondering, he has a saturnine smile which the author feels the need to tell us multiple times. I had to look up the definition because she kept using it so often that I thought maybe it was important somehow. It just means bitter or gloomy. Cool.
Now the main part of this book — the romance. You probably thought I was going to say the supposed plot summarized on the back of the book, but you would be wrong. It's really all about Sirantha and March and their bickery, bantery flirt fest, a hate-to-love relationship culminating in the best sex and also best almost-sex ever. Safe to say, I spent a lot of the time reading this book shaking my head and rolling my eyes.
The plot is pretty thin. The crew of the Folly manages to sneak on board a Corporation ship, March sneaks to Sirantha's cell, breaks her out, and gets them back to the ship almost entirely without being noticed. An alarm goes off while they're heading back to the ship but the "grey men" who are super determined security guards or something, take a really long time to get to the hanger, allowing for a prolonged conversation once aboard. Then they head off to some random planet and we eventually learn the whole point of the break out — they want Sirantha to teach other jumpers at some as-yet unestablished Academy, thus breaking the Corporations stranglehold on grimspace travel, and by extension trade and pretty much any other facet of life requiring interstellar travel.
But none of that is actually important. It's all about Sirantha and March eventually, finally, hooking up and being in L-O-V-E.