Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty

Mrs. Brown is leaving Eternity for a few days and leaving Mallory in charge. This shouldn't be a big deal but there is a delegation of humans, including the new ambassador who are arriving soon. 

The station has been unsettled and Mrs. Brown is hoping to fix that, but things get worse before they get better including the fact that Mallory knows several of the people who have arrived on this ship and, where there are coincidences for Mallory, there is usually murder.

Her best friend from high school, Amy, and Amy's twin brother Parker are among the group. However, it takes Mallory quite some time to remember Parker at all. Their older brother Reggie and his husband Max are there as well as is Oscar Daye, a basketball coach at North Carolina (where the rest of them are from as well) who also runs a gossip blog. Oh, and of course, Jessica, the new ambassador who seems to know quite a bit about Xan and Mallory.

The story does get  a bit convoluted but so was the first. It's still highly enjoyable and, especially if you loved the first book, you should read this one.

Four stars

This book comes out November 7, 2023

Follows Station Eternity

ARC kindly provided by Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley

Opinions are my own

Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty

I am not a huge fan of time jumping stories. And this one was especially dizzying since you go into so many different characters' points of view. However, this is still a really fun book that I absolutely devoured.

Mallory has been surrounded by death her entire life. And not just death but murders. No, seriously, she's been in the vicinity of no fewer than fifteen murders in her life. That's way too many. So, when the aliens arrived, she got herself up to a space station in the hopes that not being around other humans would mean that there would be no more murders. Eternity (the sentient space station) has allowed her to stay and Mallory is figuring out her life even as the aliens around her are figuring out her and the other two humans on board. Well, the one ambassador sanctioned by earth and the one who is somewhat AWOL from the American military. However, that is not going to be the case for long since there is currently a shuttle full of humans on its way up to Eternity, one filled with people who have connections to either Mallory or Xan (the military guy.) But right before their ship docks, the sentient being attached to Eternity is murdered and the station freaks out, whacking the shuttle and sending a number of people hurtling into space. It's up to Xan and Mallory to first rescue the survivors and then figure out just what the heck all of these people are doing up in space.

Four stars

This book came out October 4, 2022

Followed by Chaos Terminal

ARC kindly provided by Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley

Opinions are my own

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

I heard about this book on the Book Riot podcast and thought the premise was intriguing. Six clones wake up in space. All of their previous bodies are either dead or close to it. Now they have to find out what happened.
The narrator is third person omniscient and hops around from character to character though we mostly hang out with Maria Arena. As the clones recover their memories, the reader gets to learn more about their lives. 
A back and forth between past and present isn't my favorite narrative device and I thought the ended wrapped up a bit too tightly but I highly enjoyed the book

Four and a half stars

This book came out January 31, 2017

Borrowed as hard copy from library

Opinions are my own