Jacey Bedford's Journal

Ignoring the furore over accusations and counter accusations about this author (which I knew nothing about until I spotted questions on Goodreads), this is a review of… y'know… the actual book.

Firstname Lastname is a small-time grifter, one of the very few humans on an alien space station. Her name is the result of a clerical error on her immigration paperwork, but she owns it beautifully. She's recruited (or may that should be blackmailed) into the crew of a repo outfit, travelling the galaxy to repossess ships from all kinds of shady characters. What could possibly go wrong? It's a neat idea, and the (many different kinds of) aliens are interesting, though not always differentiated as much as they could be (or else I wasn't paying enough attention). Described as a 'romp' this is more properly a series of romps as each repo trip they make gets a little more hazardous each time. I would have preferred a more cohesive story rather than a series of barely connected escapades. Each escapade was well written, but didn't seem to have consequences that reverberated into subsequent capers. I put it down at about 20% and then went back to it only after reading a couple of other books.

Review copy from Netgalley.