baronessekat | 2021 Reading Challenge: a locked-room mystery

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Actually 3.75 (just not enough for a 4)

Maria wakes in a cloning vat. Not something unusual for her. It tells her that her previous body has died and that her mindmap was uploaded to the next clone ready. What IS unusual is the fact that the other 5 crew members of the interstellar ship she was on were also waking up - and their bodies were floating weightless and clearly murdered in the air of the cloning bay.

All crew members are freshly made clones and they all realize that the memories they were given were 25 years out of date - meaning the mind maps that their previous lives should have made were not used. Worse - it's clear that the computer systems have been sabotaged, the AI running the ship has been damaged and the ship is off course.

So the crew needs to find out what happened, how they died, get the AI fixed and the ship back on course before the lives of the cryro-stored passengers in the hold become more in danger.

+++++

This was a very interesting take on the locked-room mystery concept. Overall I liked the story. But I have to say that I think I would have liked the book more had I read it instead of listening to it. It is read by the author and, while she added emotion, there were a great many times that I had trouble figuring out what character was speaking because there was no change in voice.

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