A really challenging read.

The plot itself was good. An interesting storyline that makes you want to rush to the end to figure out what happened to the crew of the Capacitance.

The writing is where it was really challenging for me. It was very repetitive. I mean, very! I just wanted to skip so much of the first 70% of the book because I wanted to know what happened and the story wasn't advancing. Usually, I would expect the mystery to unravel along with the story but there were very few pieces that were given out early and then the middle of the book felt like just a rehash. No forward movement.

It was all written from point of view of cameras as well. I think that would work well for a movie set but I'm not sure that I enjoyed it being throughout the story. Maybe here and there would be fun but it felt too much.

Overall, readers that like Science Fiction and especially life on space ships, will probably enjoy this story.

Last Rites of Capacitance

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The characters portrayed here are clichés of characters we've read about over and over again. The story is good, with an obvious flaw: it keeps on repeating itself until 3/4 into the book, where the great mystery about the lost crew is revealed in just a few pages. That would be less than 1 per cent of the book, since after revealing the crew's demise, it then goes on repeating the same information until the ending. A not so good or unexpected ending, I might add.


Thank you for the free copy!

Dr. Angelique Puck finds herself the only one left alive on the spacecraft Capacitance. Forced to continue working on her scientific research, she keeps trying to solve the question of a disease raving Earth, with the only possible solution being found in space. A little dismaying, but overall a good read.

When Dr. Angelique Puck set out into the depths of space intent on finding a cure for Rabid Neural Stasis she was all too aware that she'd taken on a task that could prove insurmountable-what she hadn't bargained for was finding herself marooned, all of her crew dead and their communications down just when she needed them most.

This sci-fi horror novel is anything but what you'd expect at first and certainly takes you somewhere unexpected by the end. A very cinematic take on both sci-fi and horror, I think it's best classified among such blended examples as Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and subtle films such as Duncan Jones' Moon, both of them having a unique tone and mood all their own while leading you into things with strong traditional sci-fi themes and ending up somewhere else altogether. I highly recommend this one to sci-fi fans who like something of an isolationist sci-fi novel with darker overtones, LGBT characters, twisty plots, and strong female leads.

Boring and repetitive until about 3/4 through.
If this is a horror or thriller, the only horrors are the flashbacks and the cliche misogyny.
Example: gun happy white soldier is misogynistic. So original.