Nightchaser

I binged this book in a single day. I've been on a kick with sci-fi romances (just finished basically everything by Jessie Mihalik) and this definitely fell into that category. This is the first book I've read by Amanda Bouchet, and I think she's a fairly strong writer, although not the strongest. There were some phrases of hers that I really loved; I really enjoyed her writing style.

My name was a bomb. It blew people away.

3.5 stars, rounding down. If this were the sort of thing I liked, I would probably have really liked this! I don't dislike it at all, but I'm just not big into science fiction combined with romance, so I wouldn't have picked this up if not for the Ripped Bodice Summer Romance Bingo. I liked the crew/found family situation here, especially the backstory about Tess and Jax. The alternating between first-person for Tess and occasional dips into third-person for Shade's POV was kind of an odd choice - while it didn't really bother me too much, I'm not sure why the author made that decision.

Extra half a star for Bonk the space cat and his self-cleaning litter box. Between that and Tess's birth-control injection that apparently lasts a decade, this might be a pretty decent dystopia, all things considered. (That's a joke, I don't want to live in a dystopia, whoops we already do.)

(2020 summer romance bingo: “the final frontier,” could also work for “I'm on a boat,” I think, since it's a spaceship. Other possibilities: secret identity, maybe a generous interpretation of bootleggers.)