I like to describe Dead Silence as a haunted Titanic, but a ship in space! It was SO good! The characters are investigating a spaceship that was thought to be lost, and while on the ship things get creepy. Now, I'm not saying the ship was haunted for sure, but that is something the characters are trying to figure out. But I really enjoyed this one. The creepy atmosphere of the book was definitely my favorite part. It was so well done!
Paradise-1 is a book I haven't been able to shut up about since I read it last year 😆 I really liked this one, okay? And I just read the sequel this month and I really enjoyed that too! But in this book, a group of characters are sent to the planet Paradise-1 to find out why the colony there has stopped communicating. This book was so horrifying and so good! It's a long book but the chapters are super short and the story moved really fast, which I appreciated. I loved this one!
In 2389 another set of characters are sent off to find out why people on the moon stopped communicating. Very similar to Paradise-1 in that regard, but that's where the similarities stop. I loved the setting in this one! Like I said, it's set on the moon, specifically in an abandoned amusement park! It was SO good! And this is a novella so it was a really quick read.
The only thing you need to know about Into the Drowning Deep is this: killer mermaids 😈 This was the first Mira Grant book I read and I loved it! It was truly horrifying and the science was really intriguing. I also really loved all the diverse characters.
Parasite is difficult to explain... basically, in this futuristic world, most of the world's population has a tapeworm implanted that helps secrete medications and just generally helps with the overall health of the human they are implanted in. Unfortunately, these tapeworms start fighting back 👀 I just finished this trilogy like a week ago and I really like it! Like Into the Drowning Deep, this had a good mix of horror and intriguing science, plus some really interesting, likable characters.
Final Girls and Square³ are both novellas, so they were really quick reads. But like her full-length novels, these novellas had a good combination of horror and sci-fi. In Final Girls, a couple of characters find themselves stuck inside VR which is supposed to help with trauma. But in this case, it's more like a nightmare 😬 And in Square³ rips in the fabric of reality start appearing out of nowhere, and from those rips emerge horrifying monsters. And like her other books, these also had good horror and interesting science. I love this author 😌
Omg when I first found and read the Space Janitor series I made it my entire personality for like a year 😆 I love it SO much! In the first book, The Vacuum of Space, Triana finds a dead body on the station where she works as a, you guessed it, a space janitor. Lol. The body later disappears but Triana's problems do not. Lol. She and Agent O'Neill investigate this mystery and it was so much fun! I didn't know cozy sci-fi mysteries were a thing, but I love them! I love this series so much! It is a complete series at this point but it has two spinoff series that are ongoing at the moment: Tales of a Former Space Janitor and Friends of a Former Space Janitor.
One thing I love about this author's books is that they all take place in the same universe! The Colonial Explorers Corps, as the title of the series suggests, is more about explorers finding and exploring planets. This series I found is a lot more chill and character-driven, but it's still fun! In the first book in the series, The Earth Concurrence, the characters go back to Earth after it was evacuated centuries prior and what they find there is quite interesting, to say the least 👀
The Krimson Empire series has a lot more action, which I love. In the first book, Krimson Run, the main character Quinn really has it rough: the government left her to die on an asteroid outpost, she survived (yay!) but is now being falsely accused of treason (not yay), AND her jerk of a husband took the kids. So now she is out to not only get her kids back but take down the corrupted government that framed her as well. This was SO good! This is also a complete series and it's not in the greater Space Janitor universe, but it is being introduced to it now in some novellas, so that's fun.
And of course, I have to mention this series by one of my favorite authors, Jennifer Estep 🥰 This series is such a good blend of sci-fi and fantasy AND it is an enemies-to-lovers romance so 😍 It's SO good! One of my favorite things about this author's writing is the action sequences. They are the best! It makes for a very exciting read! Plus, her stories and characters are always great too!
This was such a well-done mystery set on a spaceship! In this book, clones wake up on their ship in a new body after their previous one was murdered. Now they have to figure out who is killing them before they get murdered again 😬 It was SO good!
Last but not least, in Wrong Place Wrong Time a mom witnesses her teenage son murder someone, which is completely out of character for him. She is then suddenly stuck in this sort of time loop as she's trying to figure out why her son would do this and how to stop him. But here's the twist: this isn't your average time loop where a character is stuck living the same day over and over, no. In this book, she keeps going further and further back in time. It was SO well done!
That's it for now on the sci-fi recommendations. As always, let me know what some of your favorite sci-fi books are!
Out of these I have already read (and loved) Square3 and Six Wakes. I've got 2389 on my TBR and I've also added Space Janitor because lemme tell you something - having "In space, no one can hear you clean" sentence as a part of a description is obviously a sign I absolutely MUST read this.
ReplyDeleteAh omg! I hope you like Space Janitor! It's not a perfect series, but it was just very fun!
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