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I am not a hardcore Sci-Fi fan but I did enjoy this book. I didn‘t love it, but I certainly liked it enough to give it 3 stars. I would recommend to the right person.

Fleeing her old life, Rosemary Harper joins the multi-species crew of the Wayfarer as a file clerk, and follows them on their various missions throughout the galaxy.

As she woke up in the pod, she remembered three things.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

This was an absolute delight, and I don‘t say that often about Sci-fi. A lovely cast of characters go on adventures in space. Very similar found family vibes to TJ Klune‘s books. I have added the rest of the series to my tbr! 5⭐️
#NSR22 - Space Opera
#BigJuneReadathon

#WondrousWednesday
1. 🚀🥰👾🤖👩🏽‍🚀🌌
2. The House in the Cerulean Sea - would love to read more stories of this adorable found family.
3. Last read: King of Scars - 4⭐️

I read this a few years ago but started reading it on a whim as a palate cleanser after Trust, and it is just an absolute delight. I can't believe how much I'm enjoying it.

Is there any better way to procrastinate than with a new book? Should I be grading some essays? Yes, but I'd rather sit in the sun and escape to space.

This was so freaking good. Excellent character composition with so much wonderful, masterfully handled. So many great character interactions. It wasn't sappy, but dang it hit the feels. The plot was magnificent & just flowed. It tackled so many BIG social topics in a natural & noninflammatory way. Just amazing. This is one of those books that feels like it just opened a whole new realm of reading possibilities. Do yourself a favor. Read it.

#audiobook - wow this is so great so far! Loving the book and highly recommend this in audio. Amazing narrator!

1. Cozy Sci Fi 👽
2. I love learning about new books and all the pics of pets and shelfies and book hauls and snacks
3. Who knows-- endless possibilities.

@Eggs #WonderousWednesday

This was such a boring slog of a read. There was no dramatic tension, there was no tension full stop. Things were introduced then immediately resolved.

Too much nothingness

Managed to finish off my #Roll100 for March.

I really loved this one. The characters were so varied and interesting. Their relationships complicated and sweet. While not much happens from an action perspective, you see the characters grow on their long haul trip. I will definitely be looking at reading the others :)

#AlmostAChunksterChallenge

Happy Sunday! 🎉🎉

1. Usually I can‘t decide between sci fi and fantasy, but lately I‘ve been really getting into some great sci fi! 🚀
2. I adore this book. Gives me some very Star Trek vibes.
3. Chambers is great, but I also love what I‘ve read by Nnedi Okorafor!

#SundayFunday Have a great day and don‘t forget to tag me so I can see your responses!

One of my favourite books of all time. I think it is perfect.

Still doing just one number for #Roll100 in March.
Number 5 is The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
This has been on my tbr for quite a long time!

This was a beautiful, heart warming story that really pushed and expanded the beautiful ideas of Love and Family. Can't wait to read the whole series. This book brought up so many questions for me about my understanding of love and relationships and beauty, this story really is heartwarming.

*Looks Around Litsy... What does this make us?*

#BeginsWith @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Long

Loved this book and the rest of the companion series 🚀

#BeginsWith 🥳📚 #Long 🪐

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

This was such a delight to read! Space shenanigans reminiscent of Firefly, and characters that are easy to love. The discussions about different cultures, politics, and space science were all well written, entertaining, and mature without being preachy/predictable.

This book is much more focused on characters than anything else. Cause after 400+ pages, not much happened, but I adored every moment spent on the Wayfarer with the heart warming crew!

Got all my #NewYearWhoDis books lined up so I can finally start digging in. I‘m currently reading the tagged book which wasn‘t on @Karisa‘s list, but I‘m really enjoying it so have no doubt I will make it to the 4th in the series, which is the one on her list, sometime soon this year! Migrations will be the first off the list I‘ll start next.

#12Booksof2021 @Andrew65 Favorite book of March 2022.

The characters were well developed, the plot was good but the prose is fantastic.

Had an amazing day out with @Emilymdxn 🥰

I had a chance to finish The Long Way on the train back home. I found the first 200 pages a bit slow going but finished the second half much more quickly. Pretty good book but I‘m not sure if I will finish the series.

Emily also gave me The Love Hypothesis ❤️ and I‘m debating whether to read that or Red, White & Royal Blue next.

I recently handed in a complete draft of my doctorate (minus introduction & conclusion, which I‘m writing last) so I‘ve been on my winter break since then. I‘m using this time to read more fiction including this which was a birthday gift from @Emilymdxn !

Happy to report that I finished a few great books in the last couple weeks and got a #BookSpinBingo:
- Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan;
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers;
- The Starlings & Other Stories - an anthology by the so-called Murder Squad and their Accomplices, edited By Ann Cleeves.

All authors I will read more from and all great book picks!

@TheAromaOfBooks

Thank you very much to the thoughtful Litten who sent me this book. I couldn‘t find a note so I‘m not sure who it‘s from?? 🤔 #jbuk

#2021Book112
The more science fiction I read, the more I find myself enjoying the genre. My main problem with space-centric science fiction, though, is that I have a hard time picturing what the different creatures/species are supposed to look like, so I end up imagining them all as Zoidberg from Futurama.

Yep, that‘s how I‘ve been feeling lately … not today though, I‘m sitting in a lovely warm cosy place with a cup of tea and absolutely nobody who wants me to do stuff … bliss …

My father passed away on Friday after a year-and-a-half struggle with pancreatic cancer. This book was a very good choice to retreat to over this difficult and painful week. The characters are delightful and with the focus on character, I didn‘t get too worried about what the bad guys might be going. I‘m glad I had done some grieving and was less emotionally fragile by the time I got to the finale, though!

It's possible I'll one day read this book without crying my way through the last 50 pages, but given I think this was my fourth read at least, I don't expect it to happen soon.

Rereading this again just because this is the kind of story I'm in the mood for.

Well, isn't this a fun title page!

“Nobody should be alone,“ Sissix said. “Being alone and untouched… there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different. “
(Pg. 139)

💛 💛 💛 RE-READ💚 💚 💚

A great piece of escapist fiction when you're feeling delicate. An Iyashikei- Arcadia genre story with low stakes and deep friendships set to the grand theater of space.

3.75🌟 This book definitely took me longer to read than I thought it would, but I found it to be quite enjoyable. I'd give it 5 stars for uniqueness and diversity. Lots of wonderfully aliens and cultures to explore. I definitely want to read the next one.

Hey, look! I finally completed my July #bookspinbingo board! And also one book (tagged), lol. Off to a late start this month, thanks to what was actually a really fun family road trip vacation 🚙🏕⛰. I had some audiobooks picked out for the car, but we could only ever agree on music 🤷🏻‍♀️

I may be the last person to pick up Chambers' heart-warming space opera, but if not, and you are a fan of Firefly, warm-fuzzies and found-family, go for it!

I loved this so much, first off.
Obviously queer found family gets me, and I was pretty much in love with the Wayfarer crew instantly. Maybe introduced a little too likeable somehow, but honestly on finishing it I don't even care. They each got rounded out through the book, and now I'm super curious about how the rest of the series progresses.

Question of the Day: What book screams "found family" to you? #QotD ⁣
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#FoundFamily #LiteraryTropes
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[ID: daily question in a text block over cartoon figures hugging.]

Enjoying a cool treat to celebrate the official start of summer. 😎☀️
#audiobook #audioathon #littenlisten @aperfectmjk

Okay this is my new favorite series! I fell in love with these characters and the whole universe. It's a sci-fi space adventure following the tunneling ship, the Wayfarer. They are a ragtag crew of many species just trying to get along and do their job. But they all have different cultures and prejudices and maybe some secrets. I didn't want this one to end. Looking forward to reading the next one!

At 6% in, I noticed the details Chambers puts in about space travel etc. like how the look of humans have evolved. 👍🏼

She‘d paid too much already for mistakes she‘d had no part in.

The characters feel like the lovable goofballs from Firefly. Fun summer reading!

I've only just started this one but I'm getting major Firefly vibes and I love it - the misfit crew, older rundown spaceship, and intergalactic setting 😍

Don‘t let the 400+ page count scare you away! This is an easy, fast and very straightforward story about a crew who heads out on a lucrative contract to tunnel through a bit of space in a volatile area.

The author spends a lot of time creating characters of different species, genders, sexualities & loves— often at the expense of a more developed action line; but fun if you‘re looking for something light!

Re-read.

I can't remember who on Litsy was raving about this book (as an example of your newly found love for queer space novels?), but THANK YOU for putting it on my radar! I can't remember the last time a series has completely sucked me in in the forget-you-have-a-body-want-to-read-all-the-time way, and it's a state of mind my burned-out self sorely needs.

Have had the Wayfarers series on my shelf for awhile and decided to do it as audio while doing yard work. Such a good book, I loved the characters. Each character felt like an entire person to me and I wanted to be on the Wayfarer with them meeting Lovey and the rest of the crew. It‘s such a feel good story, with it‘s own dramas of course but it felt like such a comfort read.
Definitely recommend.

All the stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for this amazing book. The world building and characters were all so well crafted! I‘m looking forward to continuing the series.

Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes 🤣🤣 funny and sooooo true LOL

I don‘t know why I stopped reading this after about a 100 hundred pages when I first started it. It‘s so good??? When I picked it up again a while back I knew I wouldn‘t do that this time around. I really loved this and especially the characters and their struggles were so well written. I‘ll miss these guys so much!👩🏻‍🚀🌌

This was the second time I have read this book and I adored it as much as the first time.

The characters are so well written that the crew felt like family, AI feel like people too, The Wayfarer feels like home and I'm crying with a broken heart all over again over one of the crew!

I cannot recommend this book enough!