Another space opera! I'm not sure why I haven't heard of Gareth Powell, because he's published many books and has been nominated for or won multiple British Science Fiction Association awards.
Apparently Stars and Bones is the first in new series for Powell, but it reads like a stand-alone. Well-written, well-plotted, with both some interesting original ideas and some borrowed ones (there were elements that reminded of both The Expanse and Ancilliary Justice.)
The book grabbed me harder than Stina Leicht or L.M. Sagas, although I'm not entirely sure why. Because it had a gripping adventure plot? (instead of centring the relationships? Not that relationships aren't important -- our heroine takes some foolish risks to rescue people that she cares about.)
I'd be up for reading more books by Powell, although for me they fall into the category of "that's entertaining" rather than "that's amazing".
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