#PopsugarReadingChallenge Book 43: Floating Hotel

Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book that takes place at a luxury resort.
Floating Hotel, by Grace Curtis.

The Abeona is a spaceship that functions as a luxury hotel, making the rounds between the planets of the Empire. The Empire has two obsessions. One is denying the existence of aliens - even fiction about the possibility is illegal. The other fixation is catching the Lamplighter, a mysterious figure who pens revolutionary missives - and whose schedule in spreading them coincides exactly with the Abeona's route.

Everyone among the staff & guests has a secret or a tragic backstory. A refugee from a mobbed-up planet. A former pop star. A pair of hired killers. A servant casually left behind when her employer disembarked. And, of course, a couple of academics who've discovered a message from aliens. The book is almost like a collection of overlapping short stories.

And somewhere, in the midst of all that, is the Lamplighter.

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