Ahoy there me mateys! I really enjoyed some of the author’s work in the past so I was excited to read this murder mystery set aboard the Eternity space station. Supposedly this be the first book of a series. I wish I would have known that before picking it up. Though I am not sure if that would have completely helped. I really don’t get all the four and five star reviews.

This book had a fun premise in that Mallory Viridian, a human, seems to be a magnet for death. Where she goes, it seems someone gets murdered. So she spends a lot of time avoiding people and hopes that by fleeing to the space station, where there is only one other human, she can finally relax. I really enjoyed the set-up and how she gets to Station Eternity. I liked the ridiculous human diplomat. I also enjoyed the different aliens on the station itself.

Sadly once the other humans are scheduled to come to the station and murders begin, the plot began to be beyond strange. I did enjoy the effects of the unhappy space station. I did enjoy learning how all the humans related to Mallory. I also liked the side characters of the feisty grandmother, the rapper, and the rock princess. I did not enjoy any of the murder mystery. Mallory does not actually seem to do any sleuthing. Also most events seemed to be either completely nonsensical or contradictory. This book was a choppy mess.

I am not sure exactly where the plot is supposed to go in the next book. Curiosity may lead me to reading the next book but the expectations for it have been lowered substantially. Just know that pretty much everyone disagreed with me and loved this. Arrr!