Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Beyond the Book: Star Cruise Ghost Ship

 

I don’t know about you, but I love stories of ghost ships. I mean things like the Mary Celeste or Flight 19. If you don’t know what happened, Google it. It’s really intriguing to me. Interestingly enough we still don’t have any answers about what happened, but there are a lot of theories out there. Scott’s novel is loosely based on the Mary Celeste.

Blurb:

After losing his Space Navy career due to an unfortunate accident, Theo Knox is looking for any opportunity to distinguish himself as an officer aboard the luxury cruise liner Nebula Zephyr. When they come upon a derelict freighter, he’s happy to lead a small crew to salvage the ship and bring her to port. But once he’s boarded the little ship questions pile up. What happened to the original crew? Why is the lifeboat still docked? Is the ship haunted? What’s in those mysterious crates in the cargo hold?
Security Officer Jayna Evans has complicated feelings about Theo so she’s pleased to be assigned to his salvage crew. She hopes they can work out their future while bringing the derelict to port but the uncanny events aboard the abandoned vessel pile up and she can’t trust anyone, not even Theo.
Can Theo and Jayna salvage the ship and their relationship? Will anyone survive a cruise on the Ghost Ship?
This 38K word Star Cruise novella is the latest installment in the ongoing, connected series. Have you booked your Star Cruise yet?

My Review:

One good thing about this book is the creepy factor. Once Theo and Jayna enter the ship they’re excited about being there The ship is in working order so all they have to do is pilot it into the nearest space port and hopefully receive a nice reward. They soon began to doubt themselves. There’s no wreckage in the ship. Scanners say they are alone on the ship, so why do they feel as if they’re being watched? Why do they expect to run into someone around the next corner? Why do they find cups of coffee sitting as if someone had just stepped away for a minute? Why does Theo’s crew start to behave strangely, drinking on the job, disregarding his orders? And what was the strange word written in crayon on a child’s wall? This is not a scary book, but as I said it was creepy. I got a little tense reading the story, and if I’d been there I wouldn’t have gone anywhere on that ship alone. It’s a nice science fiction romance that doesn’t overwhelm you with long descriptions of technology. I don’t like that kind of romance. I enjoyed the book and the world created by Veronica Scott.

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