Week 14 Review: Full Speed to a Crash Landing

From Goodreads:

A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy.

Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter's rights won't get her far when she's got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air. Fortunately for her, help arrives in the form of a government salvage crew—and while they reluctantly rescue her from certain death, they are not pleased to have an unexpected passenger along on their classified mission.

But Ada doesn’t care—all that matters to her is enjoying their fine food and sweet, sweet oxygen—until Rian White, the government agent in charge, starts to suspect that there's more to Ada than meets the eye. He's not wrong—but he's so pretty that Ada is perfectly happy to keep him paying attention to her—at least until she can complete the job she was sent to pull off. But as quick as Ada is, Rian might be quicker—and she may not be entirely sure who's manipulating who until it's too late…

A phenomenally fun novella that kicks off a trilogy of sexy space heists and romantic tension, Full Speed to a Crash Landing is packed with great characters and full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the end.

My Review:
I had such a good time reading this book! I love Beth Revis' writing, and an adult sci fi sounded amazing! And I just blasted through this story, learning about this world with the different colonized planets, the state of Earth, and I just had to keep reading to find out what was going to happen next! 

Ada was so quick-witted and clever, and the whole thing in the synopsis about the manipulation, yeah, we knew that Ada was up to something, but not what. And as the story went on, as they retrieved this valuable item, it was pretty intense and I couldn't get enough! 

One really interesting idea from this book is that humanity leaves all this broken down stuff scattered throughout the universe. In particular, this ship on this planet that is still going through its growing pains, but it could grow to have conscious life, and they could find this ship. Which was really interesting to think about! 

I loved how it ended, with the write up report about what happened, with footnotes that were commentary, I loved what they added! And there was that set up for the sequel, which I can't wait to read, because this was so good! 

Loved reading this story and I can't wait for more from this series! 

Author: Beth Revis 
Series: Chaotic Orbits #1
Read: April 1st, 2024
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Book and WoW Book! 
Publisher: DAW
Expected Publication: August 6th 2024

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