Oh boy, this was a sweet, satisfying relationship story! There were plenty of action scenes, as well. This was a satisfying continuation of the Cascade Failure book and the end is wide open for more in this series, which I hope there are!

The characters are extremely well developed in this series, as are the complex relationships between them, which is warm and satisfying. In this way, the series is reminiscent of Becky Chamber’s style. The level of action reminds me of the Murderbot Diaries, another series I love.

The pacing and plotting are good and the relationship-building is top-notch. I hope for many more books to come from Sagas.

Gravity Lost is not as good as the first book, Cascade Failure. The best way I can describe it is that I felt like I was reading the novelization of a TV series that assumed I was very familiar with the series and the characters. Like reading a Star Trek or Firefly novel, only I’d never watched a single episode. I missed Anke from the first book, and the tension between the crew members that was set up in book 1. At one point one of the characters was ready to give up, and I didn’t feel the author had earned their belief that the reader would automatically understand why. (I still don't understand why.)

The ending was very good (although the “bad guy” was easy to guess long before the Big Reveal), and there’s a cat. I will still probably give a third book a chance. I really WANT to like this story and for it to have a long run.

I read an advance reader copy from Netgalley.

Gravity Lost (Ambit’s Run #2) gives readers more time with the crew of the Ambit - Eoan, Saint, Nash, and Jal- as they are drawn further into a web of danger, deceit and political intrigue. L.M. Sagas brings together gritty action, and witty banter while somehow adding the emotional depth and coziness that I love.

This was a struggle for me to get through. Very little about it engaged me, and while I liked the first book, this one just didn't do it. I thought the pacing was slow, and all the character voices sounded so similar I never had a handle on who's perspective each part was from. I nearly DNFed but I decided to stick out the slog. I didn't hate it, but I found it extremely uninteresting.
2/5

More of everything I loved from Cascade Failure, delivered straight to the bloodstream! Gravity Lost was a nonstop ROMP with my favorite beat-up space cowboys. It made me laugh, it made me gasp, it made me wipe a single dignified tear from my eye (jk, I ugly-sobbed). It's like Firefly without any filler episodes, and a constant push/pull between adrenaline-fueled heists/getaways and my heartstrings being pulled on. Even more tightly paced than Cascade Failure (somehow!) and pure fun.