

Floating Hotel, by Grace Curtis (2024)
Premise: The stories of the passengers and crew of a spaceship hotel whose best days are behind it.
Review: This is branded as ‘cozy sci fi‘, and while it takes place in space and has low-stakes, character-driven stories, it felt too distant to be cozy. It also could have been set at a grand European hotel during WWII with very little change. Cont.
Bookish Pair: Not to damn it with comparison to two far more successful novels, but this felt like a cross between Orbital by Samantha Harvey (2024) and A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016)
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 10h