Book description
Working odd jobs across the Outer Ring gets a little lonely sometimesānot everyone loves having a synchronist with supraliminal perception around. But all Sacheri wants, he tells himself, is to wander the stars.
Then he takes a salvage run to an abandoned moon where he meets the wry, reserved, strictly-by-the-rulesā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked Spark and Tether as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Part queer love story, part sci-fi mystery, wholly delightful; this is my comfort read when the world begins to look too bleak and hopeless. This is another story with beautiful worldbuilding, and fascinating details, but the real beauty of it is the charactersācomplex, flawed, hurting, but loving each other through it.
The story is gentle, with enough intrigue to hold your interest but never mile-a-minute action, and one of the sweetest love-stories Iāve ever read, but the book never veers into the saccharineāas much as it is a love story, itās also a story about the messiness of being humanāimpulsive,ā¦
From R.M.'s list on restoring your faith in humanity.
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