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Indlæser... Southern Cross Volume 1 (udgave 2016)af Becky Cloonan (Forfatter), Andy Belanger (Artist), Lee Loughridge (Artist)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Becky Cloonan goes space noir, giving her protagonist a sci fi tough guy bluntness as she investigates weird occurrences on the spaceship taking her to the moon Titan to pick up her dead sister's remains. It aims for atmospheric and mysterious, but I found myself drifting off into space (and sleep) instead of engaging thrusters. I already have the next volume checked out, and I was on the fence about plowing ahead despite my misgivings, but a little research turns up that it is not the conclusion of the story, and instead the series went on hiatus years ago somewhere in the middle of what would have been the third volume. Time to cut losses and abort mission. I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I enjoyed this one. Murder mystery, space travel, malfunctioning gravitronic engines, artifact smuggling, and alien invasion make for a pretty smart story and a fairly complex plot. Artwork was just so-so, unfortunately, but I will definitely be looking for the next volume in this series. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"Now boarding: Southern Cross, tanker flight 73 to Titan! Alex Braith is on board retracing her sister's steps to the refinery moon, hoping to collect her remains and find some answers. The questions keep coming though--how did her sister die? Where did her cabinmate disappear to? Who is that creep across the hall? And why does she always feel like she's being watched?"--Back cover of Volume 1. No library descriptions found. |
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I really enjoyed the setting. It's almost entirely set on a space freighter, and it really and truly does feel like a freighter. It sort of reminded me of one my favorite movies, Alien. There's a certain level of grittiness applied to the imagery that works. Towards the end of the volume, the story takes a turn in the direction of say something that is more akin to the genre the new weird or dare I say, Lovecraftian horror. It wasn't too unexpected but still it was intriguing and thrilling enough to make me what to pick up vol.2. ( )