Review: Day 115 on an Alien World by Jeannette Bedard

Someone needs to be alive to call for help. 

A dishonourable discharge left Margo unable to find honest work on Earth. Signing onto a colonizing mission heading to a new world promised a fresh start. Or at least that's what she'd thought. 

Strapped into a crashing colony ship, she realized how wrong she'd been.

They hit the ground and the straight forward colonizing mission becomes a scramble for survival. Accidents keep happening—too many to blame on random bad luck. A trail of evidence leads Margo to a startling conclusion—one of her fellow colonists is a saboteur.

Tomorrow is the colony's first communications window with Earth and their only chance to send a message home. 

Will Margo stop the saboteur before it’s too late? 

Find out now.

***

I picked this one up on Netgalley because I was first interested in the cover. The lone colonist in a barren world. I was pleasantly surprised to find how well the two perspectives were woven together until the merge into a big bang of a finish.

We hear Margo's part in her own words beginning before the launch in her own words as her journal is read by another crew member after her transport crashes and she's proclaimed dead. The two pieces tie together and build intrigue in each other, tying the early misfortunes of the crew with the current happenings as their numbers dwindle. When the two pieces come together it feels like a breathless race to the finish.

If you love seeing what happens (particularly in space) when a bunch of incompatible people and their secrets are crammed together in a tight space with a steady stream of mayhem to set things off (as I do), then Day 115 on an Alien World doesn't disappoint.

I received my copy from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.