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Second stop for #IndependentBookstoreDay was @eastcitybookshop also near Eastern Market.

East City is also celebrating their 8th anniversary 🎉

Now back to the metro to head to the northwest part of the city to visit Loyalty Books.

This was a fun Sci-Fi mystery set in space. Earth is dying, so a single spaceship sets off to Planet X. When a bomb is detonated, three crew members are killed and the ship is knocked off course. Asuka is asked by the captain to find out who made the bomb. It was a fun book.

In this sci-fi thriller debut, a mission to a new planet goes awry when an explosion knocks them off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, has to prove her innocence and keep the crew from turning on each other. For a debut, this was pretty solid! The first half had a lot of pacing issues and the characters weren‘t as fleshed out, but overall it was entertaining and also surprisingly heartfelt. 3.5/5⭐️

🎧 I love me some spaceshipping sci-fi/dystopian/mystery/horror!

80 young elite traveling to a far off world. A bomb kills 3 & the remaining survivor of that group Asuka quickly becomes suspect number one! Suspicion, fear, racism begin to tear them apart.

Asuka feels like the weakest link & is suffering from imposter syndrome.

2 timelines where everything Asuka does or thinks now is justified by something in her past.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

On a mission to colonize a distant planet, funded by a billionaire who trained them from adolescence, a lethal explosion rocks not only their spaceship but the crew‘s faith in each other. This promising debut is part space thriller, part character study of a Japanese-American girl struggling with belonging and self-worth. There are some pacing issues, but I loved the world-building across timelines and would have followed this crew indefinitely!