The Launch Party: The ultimate locked room mystery set in the first hotel on the moon | 
so-soThis moon-based-murder-mystery might have been OK (albeit ridiculous) if it wasn't wasn't the egregious racism.
It was so badly handled by both the author and characters that I found it distracting and enraging.
The characters were mostly stereotypes and hard to root for, which was a shame because the hotel itself was an intriguing setting.
I love sci fi murder mysteries, but this one didn't really deliver.
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so-soTen lucky winners are on their way to the grand opening of the Hotel Artemis, the first hotel on the moon. Two weeks of luxury & pampering awaits, however, the guests soon discover all is not as it seems. It soon becomes clear that they are the only people there, all the staff have mysteriously left. Detective Penelope Strand is sure that something nefarious is about to happen & sure enough, the next morning one of the group is found dead. (cont)
so-soLauren Forry‘s standalone crime novel is one of those books where the journey is sufficiently fun and entertaining that it isn‘t until you get to the end that you realise how thin the characters are and that there are plot holes. This is not to damn it with faint praise, Forry‘s writing genuinely carried me along and there were enough red herrings to keep me turning the pages so despite the issues, I still look forward to reading her next book.
panThe ultimate locked room mystery. A five star hotel on Moon. Ten lucky winners are the first guests. Strangely there's no staff. And then the murders started.
Unfortunately the author didn't make full use of the setting; there's no evil AI, no low gravity related problems. And how did they ship all the luxury stuff to the Moon?
All characters sounded very similar despite the narrator giving each of them individual voices.
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