Having really enjoyed Calamity, I knew I had to read Fiasco. We love a space opera found family! And this one features a side character we all know we needed to know more about. Keep reading this book review of Fiasco for my full thoughts.
Summary
Cynbelline Khaw is a woman of many names. She’s Generosity, a cultist who never quite fit in. She’s Bella, the daughter who failed to save her cousin’s life. And then there’s Cyn, the notorious bounty hunter who spaced a ship of slavers.
She’s exhausted, lonely, and on her very last legs―but then a new client offers her a job she can’t refuse: a bounty on the kidnapper who killed her cousin. All Cyn has to do is partner with the crew of the Calamity, a scouting vessel she encountered when she was living under a previous alias. One tiny little issue, she’s been given an additional deliver the oh-so-compelling medic, Micah Arora, to the treacherous Pierce Family or all her identities will be revealed, putting her estranged family in danger.
Hunting a kidnapper doesn’t usually mean accidentally taking your sexy new target to dinner at your parent’s house, a local mystic predicting you’ll have an increasingly large number of children, or being accompanied by a small flying lizard with a penchant for eating metal, but, as they field investigative hurdles both dangerous and preposterous, Cyn and Micah grow ever closer. When a violent confrontation reveals that everything Cyn thought about her past is wrong, she realizes that she has the power to change her future. The first part of that is making sure that Micah Arora is around to be a part of it.
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
I’m always here for a spicy space opera. This companion novel revolves around vulnerability and thinking we have to always be alone. Cyn is haunted and convinced she has to keep everyone away. So what happens when the lies, her mistakes, and her legends all catch up to her? Fiasco has to break down Cyn’s walls, the ideas that she has to be alone, that the ones we love cannot be trusted to carry the weight of our fears and ghosts.
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And who doesn’t love a pet dad? Fiasco balances layers of hilarity, tenderness, and action. I am fully invested in this series and the ways Fay manages a story that will propel you into outer space with a core of found family and dashes of spice. As someone who has felt a bit like Cyn, like we are made of edges and corners, it’s important to find someone who can see our edges and raise them with softness. Who can see through what we think we mean. Love which adds, not detracts.
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