I’m always looking for a good space opera. I love a universe with lots of aliens and spaceships, as do many. Sometimes I feel like everyone is still chasing the Firefly vibes, and that is why I requested an eARC of Galaxy Grifter from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I think this book was aiming for an easy breezy vibe, like the chillest parts of Firefly, but this book really missed the mark for me.
Maybe I’m more alert to anti-semitism than I used to be, but when you make your protagonist an amoral thief from a rich privileged family who only cares about material things and you name him Levi in a book where no one else appears to be Jewish, it really feels antisemitic, playing into all of the heinous stereotypes that I had hoped that we had left behind in the 20th century. When you have him drug people to get information and act as an accessory to multiple murders and then you still want us to root for him, I think you are barking up the wrong tree. I don’t understand why the female lead ever has sex with him, let alone falls for him. Much of the dialog is stilted (like when the male lead talks about how he enjoys being a thief) and the overall plot is dull. I cannot recommend this book.
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