Tracer (Outer Earth Book 1)

437 pages

Published July 16, 2015 by Redhook.

ISBN:
978-0-316-26528-7
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2 stars

I wanted to like Tracer, and truthfully there's stuff there to like. Unfortunately, there's more to dislike.

First the good: The physicality of everything is great. The parkour, the hand-to-hand combat, the action - it was all brilliant. I could feel my body wanting to move along with Riley, the main character, who's a runner on a spin gravity space station. Tracer made me want to start doing parkour again. Sure, everyone was made of iron and repeatedly survived injuries that should have crippled them right away, but I'll just chalk it up to pulp sensibilites. The same goes with the flat characters. If you're writing an action story, archetypes will work just fine.

However, there's the bad. The plot was an avalanche of stupid, straight out of your standard action video game. The antagonists' plans were sheer insanity, and not even believable insanity. The physics were bizarre - even …