What could Matt Verish have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
There are scenes that felt to be to long as the characters try to figure out how to get away undetected, but they are sitting still and wasting time trying to figure it out. These moments gave a feel to parts of the book as it’s drawn out. I found I wanted more from the characters and plot. Something to drive the characters a little more as we have a background and reasoning drive for them all, for their wants, but it didn’t seem to be flushed out to grow the world and more. And I don’t understand how the company who created the valuable ICV-71 is not trying to retrieve the vessel, but Terracom (who SolEx is to be “partnered” with on a few deals) is working faster to track their prisoner/debtor that escaped. I know the business relationship between Terracom and SolEx is rather rocky now (with an event caused by this crew), and CAIN disabled the programs and connections so SolEx can’t find them, but SolEx doesn’t have mercenaries or trackers out looking for ICV-71? Just my crazy thinking. Maybe the next books will have this in it…
Did Kevin Pierce do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
I think one of my favorite characters was Rig when he joined the crew. He sees a humor in things as he should have died once, and didn’t. But his end result could be the same at any moment. Rig tells the crew they are all crazy, on a few occasions. CAIN is a rather interesting character too. CAIN is the AI of the ICV-71 that is evolving in his own knowledge. In the end, CAIN seems to go to an extreme, as computer programs can do.
You didn’t love this book… but did it have any redeeming qualities?
I think one of my favorite characters was Rig when he joined the crew. He sees a humor in things as he should have died once, and didn’t. But his end result could be the same at any moment. Rig tells the crew they are all crazy, on a few occasions. CAIN is a rather interesting character too. CAIN is the AI of the ICV-71 that is evolving in his own knowledge. In the end, CAIN seems to go to an extreme, as computer programs can do.

Becoming criminals (willingly or not) makes for strange new friends and allies. The crew of ICV-71 becomes an awkward relationship as they all have different motives once they are known around the universe as criminals – some want to clear their name, others want to accomplish personal goals.

For almost half of the book we get the story from Cole’s POV. Then we switch to the engineer’s POV, Lin. Lin is a growing important person in what is done in the first half, leading to the moment when we switch to her POV. Then we shared POV’s between Cole and Lin, which gives us two views of the world and events, even when they are separated.

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