A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy

eBook

English language

Published 2018 by Orbit.

ISBN:: 978-0-316-41209-4

(1 review)

The crew of the legendary Capricious are rich enough to retire in comfort for the rest of their days, but none of it matters if the galaxy is still in danger.

Nilah and Boots, the ship's newest crew-members hear the word of a mysterious cult that may have links back to an ancient and all-powerful magic. To find it, hot-headed Nilah will have to go undercover and find the source of their power without revealing her true identity. Meanwhile, Boots is forced to confront the one person she'd hoped never to see again: her old, turn-coat treasure-hunting partner.

2 editions

Will Sargent reviewed A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy by Alex White (The Salvagers, #2)

Review of 'A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

This is one of those books where the action sequences deliver, and you can actually believe in the team. It reminds me a bunch of early Culture novels, only instead of force fields and minds, you have magic shields and contracts tying everything together, like in the Craft Sequence but with spaceships.

Ironically, having magic be explicit with spaceships goes a long way to making the space opera more realistic in my mind, since there's no point handwaving with FTL drives and the like. It's magic. Deal with it.

My only gripe is that the villains are too villainous. I don't think anyone really talks about themselves like that.