The eponymous character, Cassandra Luckenbach, has been stuck on the planet San Pedro after her anthropological thesis research funding ran out. She's finally able to afford a ticket to United Earth, but is commissioned to work as a secretary for Commander Donner (Trigg). They grow close during the trip. When they stop at Newport, they discover that their pilot, Tom Jackson, has been running drugs for the black market. They stop Jackson and fall in love. This wasn't a bad read, though I could tell that the focus was on the romantic tension between Trigg and Lucky because not much else was happening for most of the story. Looking at other takes on this book, a lot of people have described this as being like Firefly and I don't really see it. The crew doesn't have a close-knit dynamic, there's more characters, and I don't get a sense that these people are trying to skirt the law like with Firefly. I could say that it's like Star Trek with romance, but maybe we can just say that it's space romance. The story worked and I didn't mind that it was a low-stakes narrative that took place in space or that it wasn't a grand space opera adventure. I was a little thrown off that the first POV we get, that of Felina Sanchez, turns out to be someone who is not at all important to the rest of story.
I get the sense that the catapult system, which is how ships travel offworld, was inspired by a roller coaster ride.
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