Week 1 Review: Chaos Terminal

From Goodreads:

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but when one of the new human arrivals on a space shuttle is murdered, she's back in the game.

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, thank you very much. But no matter what she does, people persist in dying around her—and only she seems to be able to solve the crime. After fleeing to an alien space station in hopes that the lack of humans would stop the murders, a serial killer had the nerve to follow her to Station Eternity. (Mallory deduced who the true culprit was that time, too.)

Now the law enforcement agent who hounded Mallory on Earth has come to Station Eternity, along with her teenage crush and his sister, Mallory's best friend from high school. Mallory doesn't believe in coincidences, and so she's not at all surprised when someone in the latest shuttle from Earth is murdered. It's the story of her life, after all.

Only this time she has more than a killer to deal with. Between her fugitive friends, a new threat arising from the Sundry hivemind, and the alarmingly peculiar behavior of the sentient space station they all call home, even Mallory's deductive abilities are strained. If she can't find out what's going on (and fast), a disaster of intergalactic proportions may occur.…

My Review:
This was a really entertaining read! I had a great time with the first book and I was looking forward to following another wacky mystery! These characters and the way that the story is told is just a little bit off tilter, and with a tension that keeps the pace going, so I had to keep reading! 

For some reason, I thought that there was a romantic relationship with Xan, but either I remembered wrong, or interpreted wrong, because they're friends, and her romantic interest-her high school best friend's brother-who she had completely forgotten about. 

Really, this is a book that questions your assumptions, even the ones that you didn't know that were made, because that was what we were told. The whole thing with the Sundry, and just what was going with the station, and with the murder, well, there were a few moving parts that had to be put together.

But once the pieces started being put into place and things were making sense, boy, did things get cooking! The stuff with the Gneiss and Tina, which had been building up, dealing with the Sundry and the murderer, yeah, it all came together really well! 

Loved reading this book, and I can't wait to continue on with this series! 

Author: Mur Lafferty 
Series: The Midsolar Murders
Read: January 3rd, 2024
Source: Ebook.bike 
Reason Why: Loved the first book, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Ace
Published: November 7th 2023

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars