Back on my Hugo Bullshit, with this year's hyped science fiction romance adventure novel. Our heroine is a con artist trying to rip off a rich boy who knocked up and dumped her sister. She's doing this by seducing him, leaving him at the altar, and then cashing out on the pre-nup. The only problem is that his sister is hot! And also in trouble with the mob.

I was excited about this because I loved Fraimow's novella Suradanna and the Sea, which was a really fun yuletide fandom last time I did yuletide, and I generally like heist romances. Unfortunately, this was fine, but not really anything special. It was pretty easy to call the turns, the romance felt surface level, the relationship between the sisters could've been really crunchy, but ended up thin, with a lot of moralising and assuring the reader what the MC was really feeling. I'm also not sure she stuck the landing, having set up the situation as dire, then ducking out of it all in a slight of hand I didn't entirely believe. Pretty sure the mob would've just murdered the shit out of everyone involved.

It was fun following the various set pieces, all in very pretty outfits, and if you're looking for a light adventure that's got a lot of style (but not much else), I'd recommend it. I also appreciated a Yiddish-speaking Jewish woman of colour in a space adventure. I just wanted there to be more to it.