by Mary Robinette Kowal
This book was recommended by my niece Caley. The author is supposed to be a reknowned sci-fi writer. I was very disappointed in the book, it was very slow going.
The story is about a tech billionaire/guru and her husband he go on a flight to mars for their honeymoon. The husband has retired from his private investigator job. The woman is physically in rough shape after an explosion in a lab. She is wired with a bunch of pumps that help her control her pain. She also has a little terrier therapy dog.
Shortly after the trip starts the couple witness a murder on the spaceship. The husband seems someone he can't identify run away from the scene. The husband is assumed by the security on the ship to have done the murder and is put under arrest. They then spend the rest of the book trying to prove his innocence by solving the crime. This is hard to do as their technology is turned off. The woman is only allowed very limited access to her pit bull lawyer back on earth. The woman eventually uses her name to try to some progress on the case and also threats of lawsuits from her lawyer.
I just felt the book dragged on way to long, no idea what the therapy dog really did for her, and don't understand the role of her infirmities to the plot.
Not very enjoyable, but I am generally not an sf fan.
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