K.J. Charles's Reviews > Station Eternity

The premise is amazing: the heroine keeps having murders happen around her a la Jessica Fletcher but of course that means everyone either suspects her of being a serial killer or avoids her. So she goes to an isolated space station in the hope of not setting off any murders but inevitably a shuttle arrives full of people to whom she has connections and there is murder.

I loved that, and the way the various people were shown to be interconnected, and the eventual explanations were clever. I found the telling pretty chaotic though--we jump around an awful lot and go into a lot of heads. And the Gneiss aliens in particular were really deus ex machina for me: they pretty much did whatever was required to fix the plot. Lots to like, but I just felt it needed another edit to make it all settle into place for the 'well-oiled machine' feeling I want out of this sort of book. (Also if we ever found out who murdered the symbiont, I completely missed it in the flurry of revelations.)