Ship of Ruin by Lindsay Buroker [Review]

Ship of Ruin (Star Kingdom #2) by Lindsay Buroker
Format: ebook
Source: purchased

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Date read: May 25, 2019

Star Kingdom
1. Shockwave
2. Ship of Ruin - Kindle
3. Hero Code
4. Crossfire
5. Gate Quest
5.5. Knight Protector
6. Planet Killer
7. Home Front

8. Layers of Force

Lindsay Buroker
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

All Casmir Dabrowski wants is to return to his normal life as a robotics professor on the solid ground and agreeable gravity of his home world. No sane person would want to cavort around in space, being chased by mercenaries, soldiers, and knights—not to mention the unidentified organization that’s been sending robot assassins after him.

But his best friend’s mother is missing, an entire team of archaeologists is dead, and the greatest find in the Twelve Systems is hidden in a wreck entombed on a frozen moon.

As the Kingdom Fleet, Tenebris Rache’s nefarious mercenaries, and sinister strangers from another system descend on the ancient wreck, all wanting the secret in its hold, Casmir and his friends are caught in the middle of a battle for the future of humanity.

They may be the only ones with the unique skills to decode the wreck’s secrets, but will they survive long enough to do so?

Thoughts on Ship of Ruin: Oh, man. Casmir's formally orderly existence (if one discounts the messes he tends to leave lying around) just keeps getting weirder. He goes from being a respected professor to (unbeknownst to him) public enemy #1 on his home world (I might be exaggerating a teeny bit, but not much. Really.) to trying to figure out how to work with a childhood nemesis (he doesn't try terribly hard, BUT STILL!) to thwart a plot that could...actually, I'm not 100% certain how the plot would have played out.

That's not really the point, though. Casmir's a long way from home and he's doing his best to try to figure out why people (robots he had a hand in creating, actually) are trying to kill him and why he looks an awful lot like Rache and how he ended up in this crazy mess in the first place.

I'm really enjoying the crazy twists this series is taking. The secrets Casmir and his friends are uncovering have secrets of their own and very little is as it seems. Answers come in fits and starts (and I mean that in the best way possible) and they usually spark more questions.

I'm ready to see where the next book takes Casmir and crew.