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One Way by S. J. Morden
Sep. 23rd, 2018 12:32 amThe Blurb On The Back:
There’s a murderer amongst them, and everyone’s a suspect …
Frank is a criminal. He and a select group of inmates have been offered the same deal: die in prison or live on Mars.
They’ve been recruited to build the first Mars base, and they’ll have to learn to trust each other if they want to survive. Not easy when your crewmates are convicts.
Then the first accident happens, and the next. Until Frank begins to suspect they might not be accidents at all …
Time is running out. But how do you stop a killer when it could be any one of you?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
S J Morden’s SF thriller has a fantastic set-up and convinces on both the difficulties and practicalities of setting up a colony on Mars and the rationales for using convicts but the thriller element is disappointing, partly because the supporting characters are thinly drawn so their deaths lack impact but mainly because the antagonist is so obvious from the start, which means that the book lacks necessary tension but I would still read the sequel.
Frank is a criminal. He and a select group of inmates have been offered the same deal: die in prison or live on Mars.
They’ve been recruited to build the first Mars base, and they’ll have to learn to trust each other if they want to survive. Not easy when your crewmates are convicts.
Then the first accident happens, and the next. Until Frank begins to suspect they might not be accidents at all …
Time is running out. But how do you stop a killer when it could be any one of you?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
S J Morden’s SF thriller has a fantastic set-up and convinces on both the difficulties and practicalities of setting up a colony on Mars and the rationales for using convicts but the thriller element is disappointing, partly because the supporting characters are thinly drawn so their deaths lack impact but mainly because the antagonist is so obvious from the start, which means that the book lacks necessary tension but I would still read the sequel.
