My First DNF of 2024... Dead Space by Kali Wallace

Title: Dead Space

Author: Kali Wallace

Genre: Adult, sci-fi, mystery thriller

Publication date: March 2021

Published by: Berkley

Source: Purchased paperback

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Synopsis: Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer maximize its profits. She's surprised to hear from an old friend and fellow victim of the terrorist attack that ruined her life—and that surprise quickly turns to suspicion when he claims to have discovered something shocking about their shared history and the tragedy that neither of them can leave behind.

Before Hester can learn more, her friend is violently murdered at a remote asteroid mine. Hester joins the investigation to find the truth, both about her friend's death and the information he believed he had uncovered. But catching a killer is only the beginning of Hester's worries, and she soon realizes that everything she learns about her friend, his fellow miners, and the outpost they call home brings her closer to revealing secrets that very powerful and very dangerous people would rather keep hidden in the depths of space.

My rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

I have been in a sci-fi horror kind of mood lately, and I thought this book would be a good one to read! Yes, this is more on the thriller side than horror, but I like thrillers! This, however, was not thrilling at all. I read 76 pages (about 23%) before I called it quits.

This book was SO freaking boring—the amount of exposition dumps that went off into tangents irrelevant to the plot at hand was wild. It's not a good sign when I start skimming, my eyes glaze over, and the book puts me to sleep.

And it’s a shame because the premise sounded so interesting! But I just couldn’t do it! I do have another book by this author, Salvation Day, so I’m willing to give her another chance. We’ll see how it goes.

Have you read this book? If so, what did you think about it? If not, what do you think? Does it sound like something you might want to read? Leave me a link to your review or comment below! 😊