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This is actually a re-read. Great story, lots of twists, great characters, and on the moon!

Convicts sent to the moon to erect a NASA base. Things deteriorate.

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Bk1 of June is done! #BigJuneReadathon #PhotoChallenge I finished a third!! So happy right now🥲And it fit the 1st prompt for the photo challenge too. Perfect. I very much liked this, it‘s like a locked room Dame Agatha set on Mars with cons instead of old ladies. The ending wasn‘t a surprise, worked it out about halfway but still a thrilling read. Have Bk2 on my next #bookbuy list👍 #BookspinBingo #SeriesRead2022 #SciFiChallenge

Ambitious I know, but I‘ve started my third book in two days! I‘m looking forward to this one, it‘s got great reviews on most sites. Seven life prisoners are chosen to build the first base on Mars, but when they get there accidents start to happen. When Frank Kitteridge starts to suspect there‘s a killer among them, how do you find who on a planet full of them? I‘ve read a few chapters & already know I‘ll be buying Bk2!

A group of criminals are sent on a one way trip to Mars to build & maintain a base for use by an eventual NASA team. They succeed, despite a dearth of necessary supplies, then start dying one by one. The first 2 don't seem suspicious at first glance but the 3rd has to be murder. By the 4th death our remaining convicts have figured out the score &are turning on each other. Can Frank, our MC, identify the culprit & save himself? It's entertaining ⬇️

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I love the idea of this one. It was billed as The Martian meets And Then There Were None. Awesome, right? Eh. It was very fast and filled with adrenaline. But it needed something. Details. Tech details. Honestly, it was generic to the point that it could have taken place in my backyard. I wanted to feel like I was on Mars, but I never got that. I still enjoyed it and would read the next one, but it could have been improved with some science.

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What if you are a prisoner for life? What if you are offered to build a base for astronauts on #Mars? Will you accept the offer? And what if the people who came with you to Mars start dying one by one?
I liked the idea, but I would like more details about the technical aspects of life on Mars! But I will definitely read the sequel!

This is so like Death of a Clone in far too many ways, it kind of put me off (even though I think they came out not that far apart. It lacks the saving grace of the lightness Death of a Clone had at times, and is rather dark and merciless at heart.

S J Morden‘s SF thriller has a fantastic set-up and convinces on both the difficulties and practicalities of setting up a colony on Mars and the rationales for using convicts but the thriller element is disappointing, partly because the supporting characters are thinly drawn so their deaths lack impact but mainly because the antagonist is so obvious from the start, which means that the book lacks necessary tension but I would still read the sequel

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About halfway in I got so claustrophobic and almost bailed since the setting was Mars with dwindling supplies of air, water, and food. But I got a second wind, 😝 and finished. Seven convicts are trained to build a colony on Mars but things start to go wrong almost immediately when fatal accidents start to threaten their group.