The Middle of Nowhere by Mackey ChandlerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A Linking Book
This is the third book in a continuing series. The previous two books need to be read in order to understand this book. The story ends at a natural break in the narrative but definitely continues. There is another series, Family Law, which is set in the future but also has these characters in. I would read this series first for clarity and to avoid any spoilers, though these are minimal. The reading order across the two series is listed here.
April is back from Earth and taking time to process the result of her brother’s actions. A lot has happened to her in a short space of time and she’s trying to keep up but the assassination attempts aren’t helping.
There are several people on Earth who are beginning to feel the heat of staying on the ‘SlumBall’ and thinking of how they can extricate themselves from gravity and get up to a safer place on Home, especially after Jeff butts heads with another world power.
Heather is working on her ‘little real estate project’ on the moon which becomes a bit more tricky every day. Being on the same piece of rock as some of Earth’s representatives makes her property more easily accessible than Home.
There are lots of people followed in this book as lots of threads of different stories are pulled together. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, in a long series there are often books that don’t reach out and grab you, but they are important to the series as a whole. They give you lots of information that is going to be important to the series as a whole but don’t really make you feel like anything is resolved. You don’t have an opportunity to get into any particular strand because so much is going on and it feels ‘bitty’. This book is one of those. It really needs to be appreciated in context, so I’m not going to dwell on it any more than that. I just want to read the next book so that the context can start clarifying itself!
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