A review by brun_smiles
Starship Titanic by Terry Jones

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.25

I really wanted to like this book. The story is great at first, funny and confusing at the same time. But once the female characters are introduced and the whole Journalist-Lucy-Dan triangle starts, it lost me. I have never been as mad at a book as the author suggesting that women were attracted to possible murderers, cheated and gaslighted for no reasons, and the way Nettie is treated through it all not just by the people but the author himself. You can tell the writer wrote this book naked and that sexism was the main spice of a sci-fi book about a messed up spaceship. The whole main plot is about how corners were cut when building a spaceship, and how a whole civilization was damaged because of it, but this book ends up being just a joke about 4 people and their unreal connections.