Chilling Effect

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A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money The ship s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings The worse things get, the she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family.To free her sister, Eva will risk everything her crew, her ship, and the life she s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down. Best Read [ Chilling Effect ] By [ Valerie Valdes ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr KidnappersAlien EmperorsPsychic CatsAnd she s out of coffee Me SPITS OUT WATER Also me OKAY, OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE WAS DIGGING INSIDE MY HEAD WHO WAS ITI received a copy from HarperCollins Publishers through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Captain Eva Innocente is living her best life working with a crew of friends that have become family on her spaceship as they pick up odd delivery jobs that take them all over space Just when she thinks that a job requiring her to drop off a litter of psychic cats falls through is the worst part of her week, she finds out her sister has been abducted by a deep space criminal group that manipulates I received a copy from HarperCollins Publishers through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Captain Eva Innocente is living her best life working with a crew of friends that have become family on her spaceship as they pick up odd delivery jobs that take them all over space Just when she thinks that a job requiring her to drop off a litter of psychic cats falls through is the worst part of her week, she finds out her sister has been abducted by a deep space criminal group that manipulates people by threatening the lives of their abductees Unable to tell a single soul that...ARC received in exchange for an honest review thank you This is actually 3.5 stars, but I rounded up because I loved the premise and I REALLY loved the heroine Captain Eva Innocente of the spaceship La Sirena Negra has fallen on hard times She walked away from doing business with her father because she hated how shady it was, and she hated the person she was when she was with him But that s had financial repercussions for her and her beloved crew They transport cargo from place to placeARC received in exchange for an honest review thank you This is actually 3.5 stars, but I rounded up because I loved the premise and I REALLY loved the heroine Captain Eva Innocente of the spaceship La Sirena Negra has fallen on hard times She walked away from doing business with her father because she hated how shady it was, and she hated the person she was when she was with him But that s had financial repercussions for her and her beloved crew They transport cargo from place to place their latest a batch of twenty...This is a case where I really wanted to like the book, really should have liked the book, but, unfortunately, could not The worldbuilding is great It s zany and a bit campy and fun all around, from psychic cats to mind controlling parasites Also, can you say alien romance I loved that But the execution of the novel left something to be desired The premise is okay but the pacing is not I was either being whipped around at breakneck pace or making my way through entire chapters wondering w This is a case where I really wanted to like the book, really should have liked the book, but, unfortunately, could not The worldbuilding is great It s zany and a bit campy and fun all around, from psychic cats to mind controlling parasites Also, can you say alien romance I loved that But the execution of the novel left something to be desired The premise is okay but the pacing is not I was either being whipped around at breakneck pace or making my way through entire chapters wondering what the point was By the halfway point, I was constantly feeling like the climax should be right around the corner only It made for a pretty jarring read I did love the main character and all her flaws But most of the side characters were h...Is space opera its own mini genre now Because I feel like I ve been seeing the term a lotlately.I received an advanced copy through NetGalley Chilling Effect is a quirky space opera adventure reminiscent of Firefly, with an eclectic space crew captained by Eva When Eva finds out her sister has been kidnapped by a nasty crime syndicate, she takes on a series of terrible jobs all while keeping the truth secret from her crew Of course, everything goes wrong, but does so in surprising ways That s part of the fun of this book It s a total screwball romp You have no idea what s going to ha I received an advanced copy through NetGalley Chilling Effect is a quirky space opera adventure reminiscent of Firefly, with an eclectic space crew captained by Eva When Eva finds out her sister has been kidnapped by a nasty crime syndicate, she takes on a series of terrible jobs all while keeping the truth secre...To readreviews from this author and others, check out my blog at keikii Eats Books 67 points, 3 stars Quote You are very cynical Eat a turd, she thought You are also very rude And you re a parasite attached to my skull who can t seem to understand the meaning of the phrase J dete, co o Review Chilling Effect is a weird book for me In the beginning I was determined to love it, and then the honeymoon period wore off fast By the midway point, I was certain I hated the book To readreviews from this author and others, check out my blog at keikii Eats Books 67 points, 3 stars Quote You are very cynical Eat a turd, she thought You are also very rude And you re a parasite attached to my skull who can t seem to understand the meaning of the phrase J dete, co o Review Chilling Effect is a weird book for me In the beginning I was determined to love it, and then the honeymoon period wore off fast By the midway point, I was certain I hated the book In the end, I loved the ending And as much as I loved that ending and that it made me want to continue on with the series, I just don t know if I will yet.I also had to spend an unreal amount of time on Google Translate, and Urban Dictionary, and just plain googling around to figure out what, exactly, people were saying There is so much Spanish sprinkled in throughout the book, at times I didn t even understand what was going on without looking things up Hell, half th...Okay, there were a bunch of things I absolutely loved about this and some I really think could have been done better But overall I very much enjoyed Chilling Effect So, good things first The characters are great They are super diverse and quite a few of them, including the protagonist, are in their late thirties There is a lot of action but also so much humour in this While there is a central romance, it s not the focus of the story A lot of the stuff going on here plays with what s rig Okay, there were a bunc...Valerie Valdes is taking aim at lovers of space adventure with the crew of La Sirena Negra, and I absolutely got sucked into the action and humor that makes this one of the most fun debuts we have in 2019 Did I mention there are space cats comment from Executive Editor David Pomerico In space, no one can hear you cagando en la mierda.Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for smaller profits When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Valerie Valdes is taking aim at lovers of space adventure with the crew of La Sirena Negra, and I absolutely got sucked int...While this was a delightful adventure, encompassing all sorts of tried and true tropes and sci fi worlds, in the end it just felt overly long and sloggish to me.I don t what exactly it was about this book that just made it feel like that Perhaps I just didn t realize how long it was it comes in at about 450 pages, and I was somehow thinking it would have been half that , but I think it had something to do with the way it was paced a well as the lack of switching POVs While this wasn t in firs While this was a delightful adventure, encompassing all sorts of tried and true tropes and sci fi worlds, in the end it just felt overly long and sloggish to me.I don t what exactly it was about this book that just made it feel like that Perhaps I just didn t realize how long it was it comes in at about 450 pages, and I was somehow thinking it would have been half that , but I think it had something to do with the way it was paced a well as the lack of switching POVs While this wasn t in first person, it was third p...

Chilling Effect
  • English
  • 09 April 2018
  • Paperback
  • 448 pages
  • 0062877232
  • Valerie Valdes
  • Chilling Effect