95% of this book is dialogue, and while Gini Koch is great at writing dialogue, there is nothing else there. I could not tell you a single detail of their ship barring its name. Character descriptions are extremely brief if female, and non-existent if they are male. The plot is barely there and pretty standard. The big "twist" was pretty self explanatory and obvious from the beginning. Clearly wanting to be Firefly, this book feels lile it was written as a script that never panned out and was 'transformed' albeit barely, into a book. If you want something with snappy dialogue try her Alien series. It's still about 65-70% dialogue but at least I could tell you what the characters looked like, how they acted and what they did.