MOLLY FYDE AND THE PARSONA RESCUE by Hugh Howey

Molly's cruising through the space navy academy. She wants to be a hot shot pilot. When it comes to piloting, there are hours of sheer boredom punctuated with moments of sheer terror. She starts the story in boredom mode, except that the guy next to her is so gosh-darn cute. They've been flight partners for a while.

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The moments of sheer terror quickly follow when an invasion fleet appears out of hyperspace and she has to pull of some fancy flying. Unfortunately, her methods are decidedly unorthodox and she gets booted out of the academy a little too fast. She suspects it's because she's a girl. This is the future, but for some bizarre reason she can't figure out social evolution has backslidden. Women rarely fly anymore, or go into combat.

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After resigning herself to a normal high school, her honorary grandfather-type person, Admiral Lucin visits with the stunning news that her dad's old ship, the Parsona, has been found. Well, he doesn't have to say much else because Molly's already gone into warp with the idea of getting it back. It's legally hers now, because both her parents are dead. The good admiral makes all the arrangements for her to go fetch it, including providing her with a traveling partner to keep her on task.

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Cole. Ooh, la, la, bring on the kissing. But, these two are little more mature than me about such things and so I didn't get to read about smooching for a while. I did get the feeling Molly wanted to be a Linnea Sinclair heroine when she grew up though. http://linneasinclair.com/ Okay, maybe not, but I'm kinda silly about that.

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Anyway, back to the story. They arrive on a stinking planet. The space navy paid the bribes and stuff and there's a shady guy to meet them too. At this point, things kinda turn into a Jurassic Park movie, you know, first with the 'Oooh' and 'Ahhhh' and then there's running and screaming. They bang heads with a couple of space navy dudes during a flash flood. It's crazy. Then, they get captured. Did I mention Cole's been pretending to be Molly's boyfriend as kind of cover story? Oh, yeah, pretending.

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Fun read. Well-structured. I can't stand fluff in a book, you know, excess descriptions, and chasing every Tribble trail that comes along.

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