The ending was surprising and satisfying-10 pages from the end, I had no idea how Sirantha and March were going to get their HEA-but it still felt like a To Be Continued. Side characters are introduced, developed, and then tossed carelessly aside as soon as the gang moves on. The adventure proceeds from there in the usual space opera fashion, though I would characterize Grimspace as more "baby space opera"-the plot, while tangled and interesting, never quite achieves the tight unity of true space opera. March comes to her rescue one day, breaks her out, and introduces her to his ragtag crew. She wakes up in the tender care of the Corps, which is more interested in seeing Sirantha safely locked in the madhouse than her safe recovery.
Sirantha Jax, an unusually long-lived "jumper," is the sole survivor of a spaceship crash that killed several crucial dignitaries and her own pilot-lover. The opening bears a certain resemblance to Firefly: Serenity, and I hear from a reliable source that other SF influences are unmistakable. How to describe the plot? Episodic, in a word (but not mine). While it's not a novel I'll reread to savor, it serves well as a breezy SF romance that follows some well-worn tropes-admittedly without a lot of creativity. I won this ARC in a contest on Dear Author a while ago when it finally arrived in my mailbox, I read the first few pages and ended up finishing the novel by that night.
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