I don't know about this one, maybe it's me :/ That's why I have put it on my "Everyone loves it but me" shelf on Goodreads.

If you know my reading habits then you will know that Sci-Fi is not my usual go-to read, paired with Fantasy, it is something that I will mostly give a wide berth to, unless I am bullied into it my on of my GR buddies 😘

I fell into the hype with this authors previous book The Martian, and the hype was right, the book was AMAZING, I listened to it on audio and the narrator was fantastic, Mark Watney was the funniest character, and I really felt like I was there with him while he was stuck on Mars all by himself, I 5 starred the crap out of that one!

This book.......sigh this book, I don't know it just seemed that the author was trying to make Jazz into a female Mark Watney,  the one liners,  the inappropriate jokes, he just seemed like he was trying too hard to be liked, and I get it, I really do, after that success you want another hit, why fix it if it ain't broke right?

The narrator  Rosario Dawson did a stellar performance with the story and she made me laugh a couple of times with her narration.

The story

Jazz lives on Artemis, which is on the moon, she is a hot (obviously) space engineer, genius who is also a smuggler, she's also a bit of a Sci-fi geek, oh and she's only 26!

She is dipping her fingers in lots of pies to get herself as many Slugs (Money) as she can to be able to move out of her small "coffin" (Appartment).

With smuggling comes danger, and of course there is plenty of that, but she gets offered an amount of Slugs she can't turn down to sabotage something for a very big name around town.

Can you see the similarities?? Not only that, as per the Martian, there is a hell of a lot of science talk in this one too, but it wasn't as interesting.

Maybe I was just having an off day, if you liked The Martian, then you'll probably like this, but for me, it was a bit too blahhh

🌟🌟🌟 stars

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Aaaaaanyway, this book was just wonderful, i thoroughly enjoyed listening to the audio book, expertly narrated by Emily Rankin & Catherine Taber.

I try not to read the blurb on books that i have been recommended as i tent to be put off, so as normal i went in to this one blind.

It wasn't until i had got about halfway through that i realized that it is based on a true story!!!!!

This story is loosely based around the story of Georgia Tann, The Tennessee Children's Home Society, and her involvement in the kidnapping, and child trafficking of hundreds of children.

Often mothers still heavy with sedation were told that the baby they had just delivered had died, or were just made to sign a paper, not really knowing that they were signing away their child.

Other ways of stealing children, well just taking them from your front porch was a normal occurrence!

This woman used to advertise the children in the papers as a "Live Christmas Present" or something equally as disturbing, but the thing is, people loved her, they saw a woman helping poor little orphans out, they didn't see that behind closed doors the children were being beaten and physically/sexually abused.

In fact she was loved so much that movie stars and "well to do" people used to get children from her, the move star Joan Crawford actually got her 2 children (twins) from Georgia Tann at the Childrens home.
To this day some of the children that were taken from their parents have never found their families again, that is just so sad.

Even though this was a sad story to read, the way that the author writes was like pure poetry on the pages, and i loved it!

Actual Newspaper advertisements.