Huge thanks to author Dave Dobson, who granted me access to a copy of Daros - grateful for reading and writing community during these strange times. 

This book is a joy. From Brecca to Lyra to Frim, as well as other secondary characters I was constantly laughing out loud at sarcastic antics from both meat and non-meat based intelligences, wondering what the other Zeelin were up to, and how the Old Ones played into things. 

Great balance of plot and character driving this story and a medium-fast pace. Loved some of the science and creative things done with it (a bright yellow ship that disappears, a being like pink goopy jello that can deliver psychic messages in single word communications, trapping a ne’er do well in expanding foam and using excavation bots to slowly get them out once info has been extracted). In all a goofy but good hearted joy of a novel. 

CWs: violence that Frim, a non-human primary character witnesses due to her position on a ship quite frequently as her crew mates are removed from their positions…and life.