Will Save the Galaxy for Food

 Audible Original Fiction by Yahtzee Croshaw

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After Earth conquers space travel with hero star pilots boldly going where no man has gone before, they figure out how to do it more efficiently with quantum tunneling. This innovation brings a million opportunities but consequently a lot of star pilots are out of work. 

In this crazy future world we meet our hero, a star pilot scratching out a living taking bored tourists on spaceship rides to relive How Outer Space Used To Be. Then an opportunity comes his way that results in a great caper story. 

This was a fun little story with both excitement and laughs.

I also read by this author, and from Audible Originals: Differently Morphous

Artemis

 Fiction by Andy Weir

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Jasmine Bashara (Jazz to her friends)  is a young woman working a low-paying job with a slightly questionable side hustle to supplement her income. She's trying to save up for her own place, and show her conservative father that she's not the screwup he thinks she is. All this sounds very ordinary, but here's the twist:

Jazz lives in a colony on the surface of the moon.

The author does a great job of weaving the complicated exposition of a futuristic world into the story without seeming to, which is amazing, but the best part of this book is the character of Jazz. 

I also read recently by this author: Hail Mary

I Have Sinned and The Quiet Man

 Fiction by Caimh McDonnell

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These two books are sequels to Disaster, Inc, and they were just as enjoyable. I think I actually felt that the third book was the best, which is unusual.  

This trilogy (which seems to be longer than a trilogy, as it appears at least one more book is planned) is following an Irish ex-policeman called Bunny McGarry in his quest throughout the USA to find his long-lost love, Simone. 

But that's not the best description; it's more like the reader is following the crazy antics of this ex-copper as he gets himself into --and out of-- one dangerous situation after another. It's fun reading!

Disaster Inc

 Fiction by Caimh McDonnell

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At the beginning of this novel there is a New York diner with a motley late-night crowd. In addition to the cook and waitress, there's a half-asleep homeless man, a terrified-looking Hispanic woman with a young son, an Irishman who has lost his wallet, and a young woman who keeps checking the door as if she's expecting a date. Then a pair of gunmen burst into the scene, but it's not robbery they're really after. Can the reader guess which of these people are they here to capture or kill? And what craziness will get set in motion this night?

This was a fun little caper story by an Irish author I hadn't heard of before. I will look for more of his books.

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

 Fiction by Elle Cosimano

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This story begins with Finlay Donovan. a recently-divorced romantic-suspense writer, having a lunch meeting with her agent. Their conversation, a fractured discussion of a murder plotline, is overheard by a woman at a nearby table and misunderstood. She thinks Finlay is an actual killer! Also... this woman has an abusive husband, and she wants him to disappear...

This a fun little set-up, and I'd call it more of a caper story, although the author did perform a bit of a stretch to make it into a mystery. 

Sick Puppy

 Fiction by Carl Hiaasen.

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Twilly is a nature-loving, quick-tempered Floridian who inherited a small fortune and therefore has plenty of time to find people who mess up the environment and "teach them a lesson." But when he follows a littering lobbyist home he gets in a bit over his head.

Carl Hiaasen writes funny heist/caper type stories with an environmental twist. Sometimes they are exciting enough and/or humorous enough to outweigh the stereotypical bad guys and preachy environmentalism. This one was too heavy-handed for me, but I did want to find out what happened at the end...

I also read by this author: Tourist Season, Lucky You, Skink No Surrender

Lucky You

Fiction by Carl Hiaasen.


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This is a caper novel with an environmentalist twist. (Everything Carl Hiassen writes has an environmentalist twist. See his youth novels Hoot and Flushed.) 

It's a funny story though, one where you know the good guys will come out on top and the bad guys will get what they deserve.

Skink No Surrender

Fiction by Carl Hiaasen


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This was a cute story by the author of Hoot, which is a kids' novel but quite good. Skink no Surrender is a teen novel, but still very readable for adults.

It is about a teenage boy whose cousin goes missing, and the weird way he decides to save her. Interesting characters and crazy situations make this into sort of a "caper" novel, which is a style I like. (Defined by the dictionary as a " frivolous escapade or prank," a caper is a lighthearted, fun story in which the main character is drawn into a crazy mess, possibly including a journey, and has to find his/her way out, usually with the help of strange people.)

Carl Hiaasen is an environmentalist, so all his stories have some crunchy, conservation, save-the-world-ish elements, but in this book that did not distract from the story.  (This was not the case with Flush, which in my opinion got so bogged-down in environmental detail that it lost all lightheartedness.)

This is a short, fun read.