To compare this book to one of its probable inspirations, this is more like a collection of Firefly episodes than the movie Serenity. It’s more just a number of small adventures as the Wayfarer‘s crew travels towards the galaxy’s centre on a job. The stakes aren’t very high, which is to say the plot isn’t anything galaxy shattering. It’s a slice-of-life space opera set on board a working class ship with a varied and well-drawn crew. This is the kind of book I’ve been waiting to read for years. They’ll earn enough money to live comfortably for years… if they survive the long trip through war-torn interstellar space without endangering any of the fragile alliances that keep the galaxy peaceful.īut Rosemary isn’t the only person on board with secrets to hide, and the crew will soon discover that space may be vast, but spaceships are very small indeed. Until the crew are offered the job of a lifetime: the chance to build a hyperspace tunnel to a distant planet. Life on board is chaotic, but more or less peaceful – exactly what Rosemary wants. The crew is a mishmash of species and personalities, from Sissix, the friendly reptillian pilot, to Kizzy and Jenks, the constantly sparring engineers who keep the ship running. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that’s seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past.īut Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer. When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn’t expecting much.
But I just finished a book that was so good that I felt it deserved its own review.įirst, here’s the jacket copy of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet ( Amazon link) by Becky Chambers: I haven’t done a book review for a while here, and I was planning my next post to be a round up of a number of books I’ve read lately, like the last one.
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