Hester Marley is an AI expert who was part of an exploration crew headed toward the planet Titan. The story centers around an asteroid belt controlled by a mining company called Parthenope Enterprises. This book has it all: complex characters and relationships, some timely social commentary, plenty of exciting action and a bunch of twists and misdirection that kept me guessing for a large chunk of the story. I knew it would be hard to top one of my favorite “locked room” sci-fi thrillers-Mur Lafferty’s Six Wakes is one I still think about four years later-but Dead Space comes damn close.

Hold onto your hats because Kali Wallace’s latest has all the sci-fi mystery goodness of Six Wakes combined with the terrifying, pulse-pounding horror of Alien. It’s hard to believe, but Dead Space is my first five-star read of 2021, and folks, it’s a good one.

The nitty-gritty: A thrilling, sci-fi horror mystery with plenty of twists, Dead Space is a superb novel and is destined to be one of my favorite books of 2021. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the Publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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