The Apollo Murders

The plot was decent overall. Fun Cold War space thriller, decent action I suppose, interesting historical fiction.

But man was the writing all over the place. The first act or so was really rough with a lot of ham-fisted exposition of what I can only imagine were Christ Hadfield's favourite space facts, with one of the worst being NASA astronauts awkwardly explaining moon phases to other astronauts. There were a lot of really awkward moments when, for no good reason, the book went into entirely too much detail about completely mundane things (like specifying how a button push energized a circuit, which activated a radio, which sent a message, which was decoded, which made a machine wake up... just bizarre). The dialogue was often a bit clunky, with a lot of the characters being relatively unrealistic.