A review by peridotdot
Astray by Jenny Schwartz

4.0

My second series by Jenny Schwartz and I am beginning to love this persons brains. Uncertain Sanctuary is, as of yet, still my favorite. But the writing, and editing, has really improved in the last year. The only thing that is really wrong is that these books desperately needs another 100 pages on them. All her books are short, but with brilliant ideas that I personally think is quite unique.

The Adventures of a Xeno-Archaeologist is no different, featuring Nora as the female lead. She has secrets, secrets that her mother drilled into her the importance to stay hidden. Yet here she is, sticking her nose into things, encountering a first-human encounter with a seemingly lost alien race, an now android who wants to join her on her adventures. Said android might just pack quite a punch when it comes to intelligence gathering and hacker abilities. Things no human could imagine was possible.

It's the sort of slow-but-fast story that features many slice-of-life moments which somehow ends up being a tale of some pretty high stakes games.

Minus points for a kind-of-cliffhanger, but Uncertain Sanctuary was the same: Three short books in a trilogy which could just as easily have been released as a single book.