S.E. Zbasnik

A rogue space ship captain picks up a guy at a bar. Deceitful, self-centered, and mob-connected, he leads her to her ultimate destiny, healing a galactic space-time anomaly.

This book is part of a series of books but reads as a complete story. According to the author's "Dwarves in Space" website, each book in this collection is individualistic although using most of the same Tempus Interruptus characters. The next book in this series, Dwarves in Space: Free Radicals, is now on my reading list. I’m sure that it will be followed by others in this series.… (més)

So this is the third book in this series [even if it isn't marked as such on here] but the description explicitly said all books could be read as a standalone and like an idiot I believed them so here I am. If I had read the first two books in the series I could see this being a very enjoyable book but as it was I just had NO idea what was going on. I was just thrown into a random scene with characters that I was given no background information on and apparently I was just supposed to know what was going on. Because I had no idea who anyone was I found it very difficult to become attached to the story in general and ended up heavily skimming the whole thing after awhile. If you are going to call your book a standalone then it needs to introduce and recap all the characters at the beginning of every book because you need to assume that new readers are not going to know what is going on so this was a complete miss for me.… (més)