First seventy pages or so had some decent writing, some great character and setup, and had me smiling more than once at what I could see coming down the pipeline. I really liked the beginning of this book. Because the proverbial stuff is about to hit the ever-present fan. Poor choices seem to hound this poor girl. But she doesn’t have a choice about taking the gig. So it ends up just being her and this creeper she’s worked with a time or two before. Not only does she get some cryptic orders from a guy up the command chain, but the third member of their three-man team isn’t even available.
Her next job comes up quick, but the setup is really odd. These small teams travel out to the ship, clean up the mess, salvage anything left over and ship it back to corp. The economy of business is efficiency, or so they say. Teams typically consist of three or four people, all crammed onto a small boat full of equipment. These janitorial jobs aren’t necessarily big to dos. Our introduction to her and the new job comes with her vacuuming up corpse sludge, on her birthday, doing her best to quell the overwhelming desire to drown herself in alcohol. She flies around the solar system cleaning up messes left on space ships where things have gone wrong. After leaving a stable career in bioengineering due to a violent, sexual attack by a respected colleague, Rosalyn finds her way into the shoes of a “space janitor”. Rosalyn Devar is a young woman trying to run away from her rich and influential family. And absolutely still speculative, which means she hasn’t gone to the dark side or anything. Still, I guess a jump to science fiction horror isn’t that far to go. Most of her previous books look more like they belong in the fantasy/horror genre. SALVAGED ( Amazon) is the most recent book from Madeline Roux and seems to be a departure from her typical genre. There was plenty in this book to enjoy… and to be frustrated with. But I also felt like it was somewhat skewed to represent only one of the best aspects of the book and not the book as a whole. To a limited extent, I can say that I agree with what the cover quote had to say.
The cover quote on this book definitely caught my attention, and pushed the book to the front of my reading queue after I’d checked out the first couple pages and found it readable. I mean, I’d like to think that EVERY cover quote would be legitimately honest and portray the full feelings of the one giving the quote, but there is this very pessimistic side of me that has been shoved into the advertisement and marketing niche for too long to believe that this is completely true. Sometimes I think it surprising that a good cover quote by a published author can still sway my opinion on whether to read a given book or not.
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