How to Steal a Galaxy
Author: Beth Revis
Reviewer: Sophia Rose
Rating: A
What I’m Talking About:
After Full Speed to Crash Landing launched this trilogy of high-octane futuristic heist sci-fi romance novellas, I was jazzed to pick up where things left off in Ada and Rian’s second eventful encounter.
Beth Revis combined a wise-cracking, savvy expert thief for heroine and straight arrow, capable government operative for hero playing a galactic-sized cat and mouse challenge with the continued existence of earth as their end game.
Only, readers are left wondering exactly who is the cat and who is the mouse…
How to Steal a Galaxy keeps up the twisty, suspenseful plot set up in the previous entry which, incidentally, really needs to be read first for this one to make much sense.
Ada returns to report in to the people who hired her and delivers the goods, but now they have an all new job for her to do. She gives her handler a hard time, but ultimately finds this task aligns well with her own inclination because it involves Rian White, the agent who got under her skin as much as she got under his. She must do the job at a high brow museum fundraiser where the galaxy’s elite will come to bit on Old Earth artifacts and donate to the cause of taking care of the aging, sagging planet that was nearly decimated by environmental issues and a super volcano fallout.
Ada’s Old Earth girl all the way and curls up her lip at these richy types‘ token efforts to look good and her home planet a little fascination piece. It’s cute to her how the head of security for the night’s gala, Rian White, is tracking her through the museum on alert for what she plans to stealth after her last heist left him holding the bag. If he only knew…
I enjoyed the twisty, turning plot style and Ada’s way of being flirtatious and mysterious. This time, with some idea of what motivates her and background of what is going on, I was onto much of her plotting so I enjoyed how she wound Rian up throughout the story. Their mutual attraction is a source of struggle for him because he’s a by-the-book type and Ada’s got a lot of larceny in her. But, she has a good heart and a strong heroic motive because the villain’s greed will destroy thousands of lives if successful.
In the end, I was left with a cliffie, but it wasn’t unexpected. Looking forward to the grand finale book that will be the biggest heist job of all if it can be pulled off.
For those who want playful and flirty with a heist caper sci-fi romance, this will hit the spot.
My Rating: A Loved It
Sophia Rose
About the Book:
A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis, the second in a novella trilogy
Ada had no intention whatsoever to continue working for the rebel group that hired her to retrieve the government’s plans for a nanobot climate cleaner if they weren’t willing to pay her for it, but then they offer a different an undercover mission to a charity gala where Rian will be in attendance. Rian, meanwhile, has volunteered his services for the gala believing that the rare items up for auction will attract Ada’s eye. Hoping to catch her in the act and pin her with a punishable crime, Rian has no idea that Ada’s real mission is to convince him to join the rebels. And the rebels have no idea that Ada’s decided that kidnapping Rian is the most efficient means to an end.
How to Steal the Galaxy continues the sexy, rip-roaring good time that Beth Revis began in Full Speed to a Crash Landing, with the return of Ada, Rian, and all the tension, twists, and turns that made the first novella so much fun.
Release Date: December 3, 2024
Publisher: DAW
Series: Chaotic Orbits #2
Genre: Science Fiction, Romantic Elements
Format(s): hardcover (192 pages), e-book, audiobook
Book Source: NetGalley
Purchase Info:
Amazon (affiliate link)