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Fault Tolerance

by Valerie Valdes

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Series: Chilling Effect (3)

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From the author of the critically acclaimed Prime Deceptions and Chilling Effect, the hilarious new novel about the adventures of Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra. Nothing wrecks Captain Eva Innocente's vacation plans quite like an anonymous threat to vaporize billions of people. Hundreds of monoliths have suddenly materialized in space, broadcasting the same looped message: surrender or be exterminated. Is the universe being epically spammed? Surrender to whom? Exterminated when? And how is Eva, commander of a beat-up cargo ship, supposed to prevent it? As panic spreads, a mystery message sends Eva to find answers, in a system that hasn't been explored in all of recorded history. With the crew of La Sirena Negra, a score of psychic cats, a feline-phobic robot, and a superweapon she has no clue how to use, Eva prepares to battle the unknown. But first, she has to defeat the known: mercenary Tito Santiago, whose idea of a clean fight is a shower before kill time. His mission is to ensure Eva doesn't succeed at hers. If anything goes wrong, the universe is doomed. But if everything goes according to Eva's plans--wait, when does that ever happen?… (more)
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Confession time. I primarily kept reading because I adore Vakar. Eva has her moments, and the rest of the crew is good, but Vakar is an unexpected delight. This was fun, although I think it helped that I can't understand most Spanish and so ignored all the potty humor/cussing Eva does. This one wraps up the trilogy satisfactorily, but I found it a bit slow. While I enjoyed all these books, I liked the middle one best. The romance and the cats were the best parts. ( )
  terriaminute | Dec 4, 2022 |
Confession time. I primarily kept reading because I adore Vakar. Eva has her moments, and the rest of the crew is good, but Vakar is an unexpected delight. This was fun, although I think it helped that I can't understand most Spanish and so ignored all the potty humor/cussing Eva does. This one wraps up the trilogy satisfactorily, but I found it a bit slow. While I enjoyed all these books, I liked the middle one best. The romance and the cats were the best parts. ( )
  terriaminute | Dec 4, 2022 |
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

I want to be upfront and admit that when I started reading this book, I had no idea it was the third novel in the series. Being unaware of this marred my opinion of the book at first, but I liked the story way more as I went on reading. I ended up actually liking this book more than I thought I would! Enough so that I am going to go read books one and two when I can get my hands on them. The one thing that stood out to me in this book was the fight scenes. Those scenes were some of the most fun and engaging scenes I've read in a long while. It was super easy to picture the action in my mind's eye, and just a joy to read. However, I do also have one minor annoyance with the book. I can read some Spanish, but not enough to be able to completely understand full-length sentences. Having to stop reading to open up my translator, completely interrupting my reading flow, just so I can understand what she said, is very annoying. Let it be noted that this is just a personal annoyance and it has no bearing on the quality of the story itself! "Fault Tolerance" was a fun and colorful ride of a space opera, and I'm excited to go back and read the first two books of the trilogy! ( )
  Katharine_Opal | Apr 2, 2022 |
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From the author of the critically acclaimed Prime Deceptions and Chilling Effect, the hilarious new novel about the adventures of Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra. Nothing wrecks Captain Eva Innocente's vacation plans quite like an anonymous threat to vaporize billions of people. Hundreds of monoliths have suddenly materialized in space, broadcasting the same looped message: surrender or be exterminated. Is the universe being epically spammed? Surrender to whom? Exterminated when? And how is Eva, commander of a beat-up cargo ship, supposed to prevent it? As panic spreads, a mystery message sends Eva to find answers, in a system that hasn't been explored in all of recorded history. With the crew of La Sirena Negra, a score of psychic cats, a feline-phobic robot, and a superweapon she has no clue how to use, Eva prepares to battle the unknown. But first, she has to defeat the known: mercenary Tito Santiago, whose idea of a clean fight is a shower before kill time. His mission is to ensure Eva doesn't succeed at hers. If anything goes wrong, the universe is doomed. But if everything goes according to Eva's plans--wait, when does that ever happen?

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