Frontier

3.5/5 This was described to me as a sapphic sci-fi western, so of course I wanted to read it! Thank you so much Hodder & Stoughton for sending me an arc. I adored the world-building, I think this desolate, climate change-ravaged Earth is the perfect setting for this story. It's our world, our Earth, b......more

There’s nothing quite like the magic of opening a book and being greeted with the suspicion that you’ve found a new favourite — except turning the last page and having that suspicion crystallise in to pure certainty. And Frontier delivers on both counts. It’s a mixture of space western, lesbian roma......more

This was a very enjoyable, fast-paced quick read. I was a bit concerned that it might not be my cup of tea, as the blurb mentioned gunslingers and love – Westerns and Romance being my least favourite genres – but it also mentioned a space ship and dystopian future world, so I decided to give it a go......more

This was fun, fast and action packed, if a little bit silly. It reads like a slapstick Mad Max. The joy of Frontier is in the diverse range of quirky characters. It is through these people and their stories, that we learn about our protagonist. A woman has crash landed on a burned and barren Earth, a......more

I loved the world building in this book. It captured exactly the vibe and energy of a frontier town and there was a wild range of characters. However, I found the story confusing, rambling- rally hard to see what was going on. It was an imaginative and original story but the delivery failed. Many th......more