Nobody's Baby by Olivia Waite

It is supposed to take hundreds of years for the Fairweather to reach its destination. There were supposed to be no additions to the living creatures who boarded; their memories would just be inserted into new bodies. There aren't even supposed to be cats and dogs. So why is Dorothy's nephew asking her questions about babies?

I don't know how Waite manages to build so much world into such short snippets but she does, adding on to what she already started in the first of this series. I don't think you have to have read Murder by Memory but I would anyway.  

Four stars

Dorothy Gentleman #2

This book comes out March 10, 2026

Follows Murder by Memory

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Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite

Rarely am I sad that a novella ends. Especially one that is creating a world. I really do wish that this had been a full-length novel though and hope that we see more in this series. Waite starts this series in a trope that is familiar (spaceship) but with some twists (libarary books that hold "people"; drinks that can evoke specific memories.) 

Dorothy Gentleman went to "sleep" some three hundred years ago. In this world, that is not long as your "self" can be recreated from books that are housed in the library and then downloaded into new shells that take on your own features. She is abruptly woken up when the ship's AI, Fairy, senses someone has destroyed Dorothy's book. As one of the ship's detectives (and the aunt of the person spearheading this ship), Dorothy was one of the few people who had a backup. Unfortunately, the other reason Dorothy has been awakened is because there has been a murder.

Five stars

Dorothy Gentleman #1

This novella came out March 18, 2025

Followed by Nobody's Baby

ARC kindly provided by MacMillan and Edelweiss

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The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

It took me a long time to warm to Lucy and Catherine. I almost DNF'd this book several times but finally made it through the first part of the story. There are so many blogs and podcasts that were singing the praises of this book that I guess I expected more from the beginning. But once we really started seeing the two fall in love and each getting to spread their wings in her own way. Did the last Big Misunderstanding need to happen? Not really. But the middle part of the book, seeing the Countess of Moth, an amazing embroidery artist, fall in love with a woman who looks at the stars, was finally the story that I had been expecting.

Three stars

Followed by The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows

This book came out

Hard copy I didn't keep

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