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A review by ohemgeebooks
Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger
4.0
Suspense in Space
Happy #PubDay to this knockout sci-fi book that seems more real than, you know…me burgers.
I’ve read a lot of sci-fi recently and Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger is stellar.
Graduated with high honors from the Naval Academy, an accomplished fighter jet pilot, and with 300 days spent in space, Walli Beckwith, our main protagonist, is the model astronaut. Everyone is surprised though, when a routine supply ship crashes into the International Space Station and although she is ordered to evacuate with her Russian crew mates, she refuses to leave the station. Her reason…to save a significant part of our world, the Amazon Rainforest, and also save the life of someone she loves.
Ruining her career, undergoing scrutiny from the world, and possibly facing a life sentence in prison from multiple countries, it’s a race against time to seek justice and help change the course of Earth’s future.
This book felt so true to real life, it was shocking. The author, Jeffrey Kluger who currently works for Time magazine has written multiple nonfiction space books, including books on Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 and the details he included in this fiction book are incredible.
It reads like a sci-fi suspense with an emphasis on environmental conservation that also includes high octane political intrigue.
Holdout has a slow-paced beginning, but quickly picks up the pace with a fiery finish that I’ll be thinking about for a long time.
Thank you to the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy for review.
Happy #PubDay to this knockout sci-fi book that seems more real than, you know…me burgers.
I’ve read a lot of sci-fi recently and Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger is stellar.
Graduated with high honors from the Naval Academy, an accomplished fighter jet pilot, and with 300 days spent in space, Walli Beckwith, our main protagonist, is the model astronaut. Everyone is surprised though, when a routine supply ship crashes into the International Space Station and although she is ordered to evacuate with her Russian crew mates, she refuses to leave the station. Her reason…to save a significant part of our world, the Amazon Rainforest, and also save the life of someone she loves.
Ruining her career, undergoing scrutiny from the world, and possibly facing a life sentence in prison from multiple countries, it’s a race against time to seek justice and help change the course of Earth’s future.
This book felt so true to real life, it was shocking. The author, Jeffrey Kluger who currently works for Time magazine has written multiple nonfiction space books, including books on Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 and the details he included in this fiction book are incredible.
It reads like a sci-fi suspense with an emphasis on environmental conservation that also includes high octane political intrigue.
Holdout has a slow-paced beginning, but quickly picks up the pace with a fiery finish that I’ll be thinking about for a long time.
Thank you to the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy for review.