HEART BREAK TO SPACE HEROINE
Grimspace
Sirantha Jax Series
By Ann Aguirre
Science Fiction
Romance
Kickarse Female Lead
After waking up the sole survivor of a horrific space shuttle crash, Sirantha Jax's external injuries don't take long to heal, but it is the pain of losing her pilot, her greatest lover and closest friend that crushes her spirit, and the Farwan Corporation's psychologist and the dream therapy isn't really helping at all. In fact, it seems to be making things worse, making her doubt her memories and making life harder to live.
Then March happens. Tall, dark and incredibly handsome, the ex-military-bat-shit-crazy-can't-stop-looking-at-him man breaks her out of the high security facility on a space station in the middle of nowhere and makes her jump his ship and crew to a backwards frontier planet so they can used her to teach others how to jump through Grimspace and therefore going against every law that says only sanctioned Farwan Corporation jumpers can navigate ships through grimspace.
That's right, Sirantha is a jumper. A carrier of a rare genetic gene that allows her to navigate through subspace while her pilot is her eyes and hands and directs the ship where she leads. But the relationship between jumper and pilot is the most intimate, as they end up in each others heads, hearts and lives as a result. And, well, March just doesn't seem like the kind of crazy that Sirantha needs after losing the only pilot she's ever had.
On a journey from despair and heart break, self loathing and post traumatic stress, Sirantha learns what is means to trust and love again, to dream massive dreams and to find something and someone worth living for again. But the transition from the galaxy’s most famous jumper to the galaxy's most wanted criminal isn't easy, especially when everyone is out to capture her for the bounty on her head, or kill her to silence her truths.
Sirantha is a kickarse, smart mouthed, sassy, strong female heroine with guts to boot. Determined to move beyond the pain and trauma caused by the fatal crash, she faces the memories and finds the courage to live again. Then March leads her on a journey through star systems that cause her to learn and grow in ways she never thought. Not only because learning things could save her life and those around her, but she finally starts to realise what it means to live outside of the Farwan Corporation and be something other than a glorified navigator. Sirantha Jax is finally learning what it means to be Sirantha Jax for the first time in her life.
Loved reading Grimspace, can definitely recommend it and the Sirantha Jax Series, especially if you love gritty, sci-fi, adventure and mystery.
5 out of 5 for Grimspace, and I'll review the other's in the series when I read them.
