This crew is rapidly becoming one of my joys to read whenever we get another installment (and it looks like there's at least one more coming, hell yes!) Rambo balances the intercrew drama with the larger things they're running from towards, and reading the authors notes, it's really fascinating to read this in the light of the reveal that her 25 year marriage was in the process of dissolving while she was writing this (love to her) and seeing how the crew handles endings. On for the next installment and can't wait for more.

Rumor Has It (hard from Tor) that the crew, who used to run a restaurant, and are now the crew of the AI ship You Sexy Thing (paper) has made it to the garden station of Coralind during their annual festival. All Nico, their captain, wants is to get their insurance company to pay for the loss of her restaurant, and to say hello to Biboban, the brain that had once run a starship, and is now currently running the station. Skidoo is convinced she is dying and wants help, Atlanta is trying to figure out what being a Paragon is. Other crew members also have problems, and there are financial problems. Then Gnarl Gusson, who hates Nico comes to the station and poisons Biboban, making Nico a suspect. The insurance company finds loopholes so they don’t have to pay. Cat Rambo makes everything come up roses on the Garden station. I enjoy this series.

More of a middle book as there is some action but not a big solution. Quite a bit of character development. End leaves our crew ready for next book. Ship is still one of the main characters. Not good as stand-alone

I thought this was very good and I will have to add this to the shop shelves. Thank you for the chance for us to review.

Fun series! I like a space ship with plucky crew of misfits adventure. And I like the cooking sub theme of if we have nothing else to trade we’ll trade a fine meal and a dining experience! It’s a solid hook for the characters. My only regret is there’s no book four listed in Goodreads at this point. And while I was aware of the author before I hadn’t really looked at the author because they’ve done a bunch of short stories and I prefer novels. But after these three books I’ve marked them to follow on Goodreads because if they write another novel I want to read it.

4.5 If you loved the previous ones you'll enjoy relaxing a bit more in this volume and focus on the characters more than the action or high stakes. The author is setting us up for the next volume extending some of the issues from book two and getting us ready for a big hunt in the next volume. This one reads like a middle book but there are some fun interactions between characters. Whenever Thing is present it makes my day. Looking forward to the audiobook release and then the next volume. This series is an auto-buy for me.
Thank you Netgalley and Publisher for the e-copy.

Ahoy there me mateys!  This is the third book of the series and newcomers should not start here.  Thing and crew go to Coralind Station.  It is festival time and the station and its famous gardens are full of people and trading.  The crew is looking to relax and recover after the crazy events of the last book.

Captain Niko holds the brunt of the problems as she tries to get insurance money for the death of the first restaurant and keep the ship in the black.  Then there are the old enemies out to get her and the old friends that she is unsure of.  But life is not simple for the other characters either.  While there is a lot of intrigue going on in the hunt for Tubal Last, the focus is very much on character growth and interpersonal relationships.  Some of the issues were a surprise (Dabry's) and the consequences will certainly be dealt with on their next stop.

One highlight for me involved Atlanta.  I loved her trading escapades, her viewpoints of high society functions, and her continued exploration of magic.  Though the novel deals with the entire crew, it seemed that she had a lot of the focus.  I also love whenever Lassite or Jezli makes an appearance.  I also am glad a lot of the Talon subplot seems to be moving away from the angst.  So that is a relief and I am interested in how it will evolve.

Coralind Station is the other highlight.  I wish I could visit all of the famous gardens.  Some examples are the underwater garden, the chocolate garden, and the sharp metallic one.  Basically the station has food ingredients from everywhere especially because of festival.  We did not get enough gardens because the author has to deal with plot.

One of the best things about this series is that each book is a mini-episode that leads to the next.  Also love the recaps provided by the author.  Apparently this is supposed to be a ten book series.  I don't normally like to read series that spread out but these books are light and fun.  I read these for the characters and the humor.  They may be fluffy but they have heart.  And the set up for the next part sounds awesome.  Sign me up.  Arrr!

4.5 rounded up

I thought of the previous story in this series as "The Continuing Adventures of the Crew of 'You Sexy Thing'". That would make this book "The Still Ongoing Adventures of the Crew of 'You Sexy Thing'". It picks up immediately following the 'To Be Continued' ending of the other book with Captain Niko and crew putting in at Coralind station to regroup, recoup, and plan their next move. There is much pairing off for adventures on the station, many opportunities for self-discovery and growth, some tension about how to keep paying for the crew to stay together, and encounters with new and old antagonists that may help or hinder. And then a few subplots are resolved before we again fade to 'To Be Continued."

As usual, the characters and situations are fun and easy to read about. The story continues to play fast and loose with science fiction and fantasy tropes, untroubled by actual physics or comprehendible magic. It's all lighthearted nonsense with likable character to root for. I liked the first book of the series more. The plot had more drive. But I'm still on board and enjoying the ride on this sentient spaceship and look forward to the next volume.

Disco space opera is in and I'm here for it. This book is intriguing and I've had a lot of fun reading this series so far. This installment added more depth to the characters and the world. It was an all around fun read.

The third book in this series picks up where the second one left off pretty much. I like how the books keep picking up where the other one leaves off; I feel like a lot of series have fairly large time jumps between books, so I'm enjoying how these books are more of a continuous journey. It feels kind of like a TV show in some ways, each book as a new season with some new characters introduced and mini-plots as we work toward the big bad. I also greatly appreciate that each book starts with a short recap of what's happened in the previous books.

I very much liked the setting for this book. Coralind Station sounds like such a cool place to visit; all of these gardens from all of the Known Universe brought together to provide beauty and food and experiences for everyone. That said, I was a little confused about what Festival was actually celebrating and why they were having it. I wanted to see more of the events of Festival; I thought maybe it was something like Carnival but I'm not sure. And that gets to the core of what my main problem with this book was: A lot of really cool and interesting things were introduced, but we jumped over them so quickly I was left feeling unfulfilled. I love this characters; they are so interesting and complicated, and we were given so many new pieces of character hooks, but they weren't developed very far. I know some of them are going to be pursued more fully in the next book, but not all of them. For instance, Skidoo's storyline did not feel as integrated into the rest of the book as the other character's.

All that said, this book was still a lot of fun. The series is a lot of fun. The characters are a lot of fun. If you're looking for a good space-faring romp with great character, I would definitely check out this series. I think you'll have a good time.

I am a huge fan of the Disco Space Opera series and Cat Rambo. I love a good Space Opera and I am really happy to see that there will continue to be more stories following the crew of "You Sexy Thing". I was extremely pleased with this installment. The environment of the garden space station was really intriguing and it felt like we got to take a deeper dive into the individual lives of each of the crew members. This is one of my favorite current series in SF and I cannot wait to see what awaits the intrepid crew in the future

More of the same, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I love You Sexy Thing, and I'm always down for more. I will say, the novelty and surprise of the first two isn't as strong here, but I think that's not a negative. It was fresh and new before, and now I'm well and truly used to it.

I honestly just kind of expected more from this book, to be completely honest. It just didn’t capture my attention but it wasn’t bad.

Rumor Has It by Cat Rambo
The Thing is back with a crew of astounding diversity. Tubal Last is still chasing them. The Thing, a sentient bioship is still experimenting with its identity. The ship docks at Coralind and their troubles begin.
Captain Niko seems to be as much a peacemaker as a ship’s Captain. Coralind’s festival provides the setting for all the troubles that occur. The sentient bio-system that functions as the planetoid’s governor and chief engineer is an old friend of Captain Niko.
Darby, the intelligent chimp and executive officer makes a soul-shaking discovery.
Atlanta, the “heir” to an empire or simply a disinformation clone, comes into her own while discovering the nature of a paladin.
The plot is complicated by a paranoid, vengeance-driven Gnarl Grusson who will stop at nothing to harm Niko.
Multiple plots, entertaining characters, and exotic settings characterize the book.
I recommend it.