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Finder, Suzanne Palmer. I have really enjoyed her short fiction ("Secret Life of Bots", "Thirty-Three Percent Joe", "Dave's Head") and this is her first novel. It was a lot of fun - hyper-competent repo man, part con man part MacGyver, in a nifty space setting (asteroids and habitats linked by a giant web of cables) with a wild-west feeling. Sort of Heinlein-ish if you stripped out all the sexism and sexuality (this is a very asexual novel, there is one mentioned het relationship between minor characters but otherwise that's just not what anyone here is thinking about, which I enjoyed (I mean, I like romance, but it doesn't have to be in every story)), or maybe Stainless-Steel-Rattish, or possibly we're getting tired of me calling things Vorkosigan-esque but I was definitely reminded of some of Miles' less Vor adventures off-Barrayar. The Scalzi niche of highly readable entertaining scifi. I look forward to reading the sequel (although this one is a complete story and wraps up nicely.)

The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky, Mackenzi Lee. A shippy coda novella to The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - I've read this fic before and I'll read it again :). In all sorts of fandoms, I mean, not about these characters specifically. But this time it was these particular dudes and also canon and it was fun; some nice sensual descriptions with swimming at a beach and whatnot, some angst, some comedy, yay romance.

The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling. I was really excited to read this from the description but it was a slog. :( Some good stuff but I think I only wanted about a novella's worth of it. :( [ETA: if any locals want to read it after this encouraging review, I have a copy that was handed off to me by someone else, otherwise I think it's heading for the library sale shelf]