Grimspace

By: Ann Aguirre

Narrated by: Suzanna Duff

Unabridged, 9 hours

Read by Suzanna Duff

As the carrier of a rare gene, Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspace-a talent that cuts into her life expectancy but makes her a highly prized navigator for the Corp. But then the ship she's navigating crash-lands, and she's accused of killing everyone on board. It's hard for Jax to defend herself: She has no memory of the crash.

Critic reviews

"Jax's brutal eloquence will twist your heart when you least expect it." -JERI SMITH-READY "Exciting, evocative and suspenseful science fiction romance...Characters and a world you'll think about long after the book is done." -ROBIN D. OWENS

Sci-fi hijinks and magic (of a sort)

I've been looking for this sort of book for a while and finally was able to scratch that itch. Lots of fun space travel, tense situations, and comradery. I liked the narration because I think it fits Jax's voice very well.

Excellent Series

Listening now after reading this series a few years ago. Loved the books. The narrator took a few chapters to adjust to, she sounds a bit too YA and fast paced at the start. But eventually I was able to buy into her performance and enjoy the story. I've tried the author's books outside of this series and couldn't get into them, DNF for her other works, but this series is near the top of my list for enjoyable reads.

Eh, okay but not great sci-fi

This is the first book in the Sirantha Jax series. There are six books in this series and they have all been released. This was an okay book; I liked some of the witty banter between characters but didn’t like some of the story elements and the way the main heroine constantly over-explained things.

I listened to this on audiobook and wasn’t a huge fan of the narration. Duff has a high pitched voice that made Sirantha sound little-girl like. When Duff did male voices they were kind of shrill and I had to turn down the volume on the audiobook because the male voices physically hurt my ears. So, I wouldn’t recommend listening to this on audiobook.

In general the ideas in here were pretty typical Sci-Fi. Jax has a special gene that basically lets her travel through Grimspace (Grimspace seems to be similar to worm holes)....Farscape anyone? Jax is struggling after her lover/pilot/guide was killed in a wreck that Jax was blamed for. She’s been rescued by a rebel crew to serve as their Jumper; these rebels are trying to start up a group of non-corporate owned Jumpers so that they can move trade from corporate to more private.

Jax is an okay heroine; she is rash and makes a lot of the same poor decisions over and over. She also tends to state the obvious and over-explain things to the reader. The other characters were similarly flawed and I didn’t really engage with any of them very well. Additionally I thought the way the story was tied up was a bit contrived and hokey.

Overall this was an okay, but not great, sci-fi novel. It’s very urban fantasy in pace and tone and reuses a lot of sci-fi themes that have already been explored. I wasn’t super engaged in it and don’t plan on continuing the series.

Romance SciFi with some interesting thoughts

This book falls squarely into the romance section of sci find, or the sci fi section of romance. That aspect of the story is predictable to some extent. That said the universe the story is based in is interesting and the plot itself, while somewhat hokey at times does introduce interesting and unique concepts.

Overall, a book that isn't shy of its essential nature as a cliche romance, yet it stretches out to touch on the hard SciFi and space opera. Oh, and a plus for not inventing anything uterly impossible like many books in the romance SciFi subgenre do.

not the worst but also not terrible

I had some hang-ups here and there, especially with how selfish the lead was but I can see the effort of the growth that was made for the character. sometimes it just seemed shallow but it was enjoyable to say the least. debating if I want to continue the series...