Paloma

Back on the moon with Miles Flint and Noelle DeRicci for the fifth in Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Retrieval Artist series. I'm really not sure why the series is called that, though, because we haven't actually seen Flint do any retrieving at all across the five books, except maybe once off-page before the start of book three.

Still, I really enjoyed this, as I have all the others. It's pacy and exciting, the characters are brilliant and the plots are intriguing. All the weird alien stuff is great and there's enough human emotion to keep it grounded and affecting.

I think I might prefer it if the narration was split simply between Flint and DeRicci - the multiple other POVs does tend to dilute the connection to the characters a bit - but the different perspectives do allow for a broader picture of what's going on, which mitigates the issue a bit.

I will definitely be carrying on with this (I've got the next book on my shelf already) and will be sad when I run out of these!