Week 30 Review: Chilling Effect

From Goodreads:

A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.

Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.

But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship's hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family.

To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she's built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.

My Review:
I had a wonderful time reading this book! From the jump, it's straight into event after event, running for their lives, and it was so much fun to read! I really enjoyed getting to know these characters and this world, as she tried to rescue her sister.

There's a few authors now that I enjoy that go on wild romps, that chaos is the name of the game, and Valerie Valdes isn't quite to the same level of chaos, she's one that I can add to the roster, for sci fi, which is great, because I didn't have any in that genre yet! I mean, the whole thing with the emperor, yeah, that was wild.

This book was basically at break-neck speed. She had situation after situation, lots of action, and a lot of reacting instead of acting, which put her on the back foot for a good portion of the book before thoughts and plans. 

I was really excited to see how it was going to wrap up, to find out what was really going on. And it did a really good job, and I am looking forward to the sequel. I have no idea where it's going to go, but I am anticipating finding out! 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait to continue the series! 

Author: Valerie Valdes
Series: Chilling Effect #1 
Read: July 26th, 2023
Source: Library/Bought 
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a DAC Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Book! 
Publisher: Harper Voyager 
Published: September 17th 2019

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