Release Date: October 4th, 2022
Genre(s): Adult Fiction, Sci-fi, Mystery
Publisher: Ace
Pages: 336
Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you to Ace and Netgalley for providing me with an advanced finished copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
Synopsis
From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroiled in murder cases that only she has the insight to solve. But outside of a classic mystery novel, being surrounded by death doesn’t make you a charming amateur detective, it makes you a suspect and a social pariah. So when Mallory gets the opportunity to take refuge on a sentient space station, she thinks she has the solution. Surely the murders will stop if her only company is alien beings. At first her new existence is peacefully quiet…and markedly devoid of homicide.
But when the station agrees to allow additional human guests, Mallory knows the break from her peculiar reality is over. After the first Earth shuttle arrives, and aliens and humans alike begin to die, the station is thrown into peril. Stuck smack-dab in the middle of an extraterrestrial whodunit, and wondering how in the world this keeps happening to her anyway, Mallory has to solve the crime—and fast—or the list of victims could grow to include everyone on board….
Review
It’s true that I love sci-fi combined with just about any other genre, so Station Eternity absolutely caught my eye. And with a premise following a woman who is seemingly surrounded by death all the time, it was hard to resist picking this one up.
The beginning starts with a bang. We’re introduced to Mallory and her strange situation, and the questions pile up as to why she’s plagued with something so unexplainable that she flees Earth. From there, we’re pulled into even more character backstories, including the sentient spaceship Eternity.
While I think this book started out great, I became much less invested in it by the middle. There’s definitely a lot to this book in terms of both the central mystery and the characters involved, and I didn’t find the later introductions to be as interesting as Mallory’s.
While the central characters and their stories in the middle didn’t catch my interest as much, the mystery wraps up well in the end as they further flesh out their stories, with room to develop the story in later parts if you’d like to continue the series.
Being used to space novels mixed with thriller or horror moreso than mystery, Station Eternity provided an interesting change of pace for its setting, even if I wasn’t fully invested all the way through. I’d tend to recommend this more to the traditional mystery fan that’s looking for a change of scenery, yet prefers a slower pace.
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