Our only real link to Planetfall is the fact that our main character, Carlos, is the son of a woman who left on the Atlas mission that we follow in Planetfall.Ĭarlos is now a grown up and we follow a bit about his daily life as he tries to work off his contract with the Govcorp who own him. I really liked Planetfall, the first book set in this universe, but this one takes a fairly different approach and is much more of a police investigation than anything else. This is the second book this year I've given a full five stars to, and it's super well deserved. Very well worth the read and my personal favorite between the two novels and one novelette I read. But as a character novel, I think I loved it the best. As a worldbuilding novel, I was fascinated by so many of these details. :)Īs a full-on murder mystery, I had a great time. The characterizations are all fantastic, claustrophobic, and I FEEL the need to solve the murder if only to get my mind off my horrible situation. Say what? Yep, specialized training, a chip in his head, wide powers to hunt down mysteries. who has been S*** upon for 23 years, dreams of decent meals, and lives a life equivalent to a labor camp. I felt harrowed and despairing even as I railed against it with our main character. Cyberpunk, a heavily populated society, massive injustice, social inequality, and institutionalized slavery based on credits and indenture. It felt genuine and fascinating.īut this one took on a whole different feel. I mean, I liked the exploration bits and the mental disability bits in the first novel. This one was one rather huge surprise for me.
There’s more to Casales’s death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. And now, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Atlas’s departure, it’s got something to do why Casales was found dead in his hotel room-and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation. Atlas is what took his mother away what made his father lose hope what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. But in that moment, the course of Carlos’s entire life changed. Govcorp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man’s murder is much more than it seems.
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