
The MC, Eva, is hilarious has the bilingual mouth of a space trucker and is a hard ass who doesn’t wear so much armor that her crew, and the reader, are blocked from witnessing her interior life. There are so many reasons to love Chilling Effect (Harper Voyager, 2019).

Valerie Valdes has crafted a delightful space adventure with all of the most essential elements: the aforementioned cats, an alien emperor with an ego so huge he can’t stand being turned down by a mere human, gangsters, secret agents, a terrible blood family, and an incredible found one.

I came for the psychic cats and stayed for the fantastic characters, hilarious jokes, and lady-led, explosion heavy, wonderfully ludicrous plot(s).
