The Long Way to a Small Angry
Planet (2014)
Becky Chambers
I lucked into this great book at
my local library. Rosemary Harper is a
rich girl trying to escape from a family scandal. She ends up part of the crew of the
Wayfayer. The ship creates “Tunnels”
wormholes in space. Their pilot is a
sexy reptile Sissix, their engineers are two crazy humans – Jenks and
Kizzy. Their doctor is also the chef
(Doctor Chef). He is also one of 300
remaining examples of his soon to be extinct species. Corbin takes care of their algae supply. Lovey is their AI that keeps them out of
trouble. Their navigator is a pair of
Ohan who have their abilities thanks to an infection that shortens their
lives. Captain Ashby holds it all
together.
I love this book and can’t wait
to grab the next one in this series.
Becky Chambers develops the characters and their friends (Kizzy’s friend
Bear and the captains alien girlfriend Pei)
so that you want to see them in their next adventure. I don’t rate books numerically as I think it
is stupid. A one for me might be a five
for you. This IS one of my top books
in the past few years.
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