The Immortality Thief

For such a chonky book this was a very quick read for me. Taran Hunt has an engaging, slightly cynical voice in her writing here which I found very easy reading. There are some distinct Resident Evil/Bioshock in space vibes with the story, with creepy genetically modified humans providing monsters on a long abandoned spaceship where our protagonist finds themselves the pawn between two competing teams attempting to recover some data.

Sean Wren, the main protagonist, is in an interesting character. A mixture of idealism, helplessness and criminality with a gift for languages. He has an impressive ability to run from disaster to disaster, but an impressive ability to talk his way out of them as well. That trait leads to an intensely action packed story that gives a compulsive readability to the story.

Fun, action packed and a bit silly in places. A good read!