Book Log #29: Grimspace, by Ann Aguirre
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annathepiperI gotta admit, I love me a good ol' skiffy novel with a hefty dose of romance on the side. And Ann Aguirre's first, Grimspace, fills that bill nicely. Linnea Sinclair blurbs it--and if you like Linnea Sinclair's books at all, this is a ringing good thing, because Grimspace is of the same ilk.
Sirantha Jax is a jumper, one of the few humans capable of taking a ship through "grimspace", working in mental concert with that ship's pilot. But she's accused of causing the crash of the last ship she worked on and the deaths of everyone else on board, and her very own Corps is seemingly bent on breaking down her mind. Before they can, she's sprung from incarceration by a small group of mercenaries who want to establish a new breed of jumper not bound to the Corps. She must decide if she trusts her new benefactors, even as she struggles to figure out exactly what happened with the destruction of her ship.
Grimspace is written in first person, present tense, which for me always lends a certain extra immediacy to what I'm reading. It's a style choice that works extremely well for Jax, who's quite brash and forthright, a prime graduate of the Han Solo School of Action Before Thought. ;) Her love interest March is suitably swoonable, complete with a psionic gift that gives Jax repeated strong immersions into his psyche, and this too works very well in first person, present tense. The only place the book falls down for me is towards the ending, where there's an unexpected interlude that knocks the pacing off--but fortunately, that interlude is short. Definitely looking forward to reading the next one in the series. For this one, three and a half stars.
Sirantha Jax is a jumper, one of the few humans capable of taking a ship through "grimspace", working in mental concert with that ship's pilot. But she's accused of causing the crash of the last ship she worked on and the deaths of everyone else on board, and her very own Corps is seemingly bent on breaking down her mind. Before they can, she's sprung from incarceration by a small group of mercenaries who want to establish a new breed of jumper not bound to the Corps. She must decide if she trusts her new benefactors, even as she struggles to figure out exactly what happened with the destruction of her ship.
Grimspace is written in first person, present tense, which for me always lends a certain extra immediacy to what I'm reading. It's a style choice that works extremely well for Jax, who's quite brash and forthright, a prime graduate of the Han Solo School of Action Before Thought. ;) Her love interest March is suitably swoonable, complete with a psionic gift that gives Jax repeated strong immersions into his psyche, and this too works very well in first person, present tense. The only place the book falls down for me is towards the ending, where there's an unexpected interlude that knocks the pacing off--but fortunately, that interlude is short. Definitely looking forward to reading the next one in the series. For this one, three and a half stars.
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Date: 2008-05-01 03:18 am (UTC)Didn't quite realize there were more of them coming, but it's a nice surprise. It's a good debut novel, that's for sure.
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