Fortune's Pawn

[b:Fortune's Pawn 15790894 Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1) Rachel Bach https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1375610325s/15790894.jpg 21512449] is good space opera with a real kickass heroine. The main protagonist, Deviana Morris, is a professional mercenary. She is ambitious, focused on her job, and very aggressive. She takes a job on a trouble ridden trader ship, the Glorious Fool, because she thinks it will get her noticed by the Devastators an elite special forces group she wants to join.Devi soon discovers that the ship deserves its reputation as a danger magnet. The action is fast and violent and Devi is pushed to the limit of her abilities and sometimes beyond on multiple occasions. In addition to the action, mysteries start piling up. Most of them remain unresolved in this story, but I assume they will be addressed in subsequent books in the Paradox series.There is also a romantic element in the story (Devi is pretty aggressive on the sexual front too). This seemed out of place at first; however, by the end of the book the sexy bits proved to be integral to the story (so, OK then).All in all a fun read.