Grimspace

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emmejo, June 7, 2011 (view all comments by emmejo)
When the passenger ship Sirantha Jax was jumping through Grimspace crashed, 82 people died including her lover and co-pilot. The Corp says she did it on purpose, and begin a fierce interrogation program. So when a man walks into her cell and says he can get her out from under their thumb, Jax says yes. He wants her to help form a rebellion and train jumpers who who aren't part of the Corp. But with bounty hunters and the Corp hot on their trail, the rag-tag crew she's joined are going to have a rough ride. Jax doesn't mind. She likes danger.

This first book in the series isn't as smooth as the later books, but is still very enjoyable. I don't read a lot of first-person books, and Jax's sharp narration with heavy use of sentence fragments took getting use to. I don't recall it being as obvious in the later books, so perhaps the author realized it was a bit too much.

The characters are the strong point of this series, each one wonderfully complex, morally grey and most with unpleasant backgrounds of one sort or another. Jax and the mechanic, Dina, feel a little underdeveloped in this book, but both ladies improve over time.

The one thing that I was getting rather frustrated with was that the author kept setting up to explain some more of the hows and whys of grimspace jumping, but kept veering off and not delivering the info.

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Katie Walker, January 13, 2011 (view all comments by Katie Walker)
Grimspace is a witty SciFi novel which is a cross between Babylon 5 and Star Wars.

The main character Sirantha Jax is a carrier of a rare gene allows her to pilot spaceships through the space between worlds, grimspace. After an accident leaves her the sole survivor of a horrific crash, she is ruthlessly interrogated by her employer, who want to blame the incident on her. A mysterious band of fighters breaks her out of her prison and offers her chance to redeem herself by starting an underground movement against her employer. Reluctantly, Jax joins the band and havoc insues.

The novel has wonderful pace and humor. I was a little worried that Aguirre wouldn't be able to keep these qualities through the whole book, but I was delightfully surprised again and again when she did.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780441015993

Author:

Aguirre, Ann

Publisher:

Ace

Subject:

Science Fiction - Adventure

Subject:

Children's 12-Up - Fiction - Science Fiction

Subject:

Space flight

Subject:

Interstellar travel.

Subject:

Science / Adventure

Subject:

Science fiction

Subject:

Science Fiction and Fantasy-Adventure

Copyright:

2008

Edition Description:

B-Mass Market

Series:

A Sirantha Jax Novel

Publication Date:

20080226

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

from 12

Language:

English

Pages:

320

Dimensions:

6.78x4.32x.98 in. .35 lbs.

Age Level:

from 18