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Reading Dark Deeds Michelle Diener
Jan. 16th, 2025 01:17 pmAHOY THERE KRIKETS! There might be spoilers ahead.
Anyway.
This is the second book in a series in which young women from Earth are grabbed by people from the UC and then complicated things happen. The women help free powerful AIs embedded in powerful armed spaceships from their Tecran masters, and even more complicated things happen. Michelle Diener reminds me a lot of Jenny Schwartz (if I were to learn they were in fact the same person, I would be utterly unsurprised and totally satisfied, altho I actually do not believe they are).
I don’t normally like women in jeopardy books, especially ones where the women keep being put in jeopardy, but honestly, I’m really enjoying this version of it. Especially Chapter 40 in Dark Deeds, in which Fee (short for Fiona) goes out for a walk in the market trying to get kidnapped by the same people who kidnapped Hal (the person she has a Thing with). First, her previous bodyguards snatch her. She explains what she is doing and carries on. Then some rando grabs her and dumps her and leaves. She removes herself from that location, because she’s pretty sure that’s the wrong person, but she can always put herself back there as needed. She finally gets grabbed by the person she was angling for. And I’m sitting here laughing my ass off about the whole thing. Apparently, women in jeopardy who give better than they get are something I truly enjoy.
Anyway.
This is the second book in a series in which young women from Earth are grabbed by people from the UC and then complicated things happen. The women help free powerful AIs embedded in powerful armed spaceships from their Tecran masters, and even more complicated things happen. Michelle Diener reminds me a lot of Jenny Schwartz (if I were to learn they were in fact the same person, I would be utterly unsurprised and totally satisfied, altho I actually do not believe they are).
I don’t normally like women in jeopardy books, especially ones where the women keep being put in jeopardy, but honestly, I’m really enjoying this version of it. Especially Chapter 40 in Dark Deeds, in which Fee (short for Fiona) goes out for a walk in the market trying to get kidnapped by the same people who kidnapped Hal (the person she has a Thing with). First, her previous bodyguards snatch her. She explains what she is doing and carries on. Then some rando grabs her and dumps her and leaves. She removes herself from that location, because she’s pretty sure that’s the wrong person, but she can always put herself back there as needed. She finally gets grabbed by the person she was angling for. And I’m sitting here laughing my ass off about the whole thing. Apparently, women in jeopardy who give better than they get are something I truly enjoy.
