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Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
4.5
adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Justice for Bella! 

I have so many thoughts and feelings about every character and all their decisions or inactions during this insane space odyssey. It was one of those books that makes you want to rip out the characters and shake them. Svetlana will probably live on in my personal literary canon much longer than she deserves. She was insufferable, but she's probably the reason this book was so great. Her relationship with Bella drove the pace of the story and added a dimension that was missing from the last Reynolds I read (House of Suns). 

Overall, this was a great read. I would highly recommend it to sci-fi fans.