Reading Update

Survival by Julie E. Czerneda

Sometimes books end up on my read list and I don't remember why, and this was one of those books. A sci-fi book where salmon researcher Mac Connor, quite happy to never leave Earth, gets dragged into an alien investigation of settlement disapperances. I liked Mac a lot. She's incisive, persistent, prone to snark at herself, and has very good friendships with Emily and Brymn. Yet I ended the book wishing she had gotten more agency. Felt like a lot of organizations were pushing around with her having little say at the big plot moments. That abstractly makes sense, but was unsatisfying to read. I don't plan on reading the sequels.

I am also apparently so used to my genre reads being gay that her kiss with Mr Spy Man surprised me, as telegraphed as it was.

( here be spoilers )