Bluebird

Name: Bluebird
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Ciel Pierlot
ISBN: 9781915202000

Author: Ciel Pierlot

Narrator: Stephanie Cannon

Unabridged: 14 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Angry Robot

Published: 02/08/2022

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Lgbtq+, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

**SHORTLISTED for the COMPTON CROOK AWARD, 2023**

Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space!

Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a gunslinging, thieving, rebel with a cause, doesn’t give a damn about them and she hasn’t looked back since abandoning her faction three years ago.

That is, until her former faction sends her a message: return what she stole from them, or they’ll kill her twin sister.

Rig embarks on a journey across the galaxy to save her sister – but for once she’s not alone. She has help from her network of resistance contacts, her taser-wielding librarian girlfriend, and a mysterious bounty hunter.

If Rig fails and her former faction finds what she stole from them, trillions of lives will be lost--including her sister's. But if she succeeds, she might just pull the whole damn faction system down around their ears. Either way, she’s going to do it with panache and pizzazz.

File Under: Science Fiction [ Independent Women | Robbing Hood | Keep Your Enemies Close | Guns Don’t Kill People ]

About The Author

Ciel Pierlot is a disaster bisexual from the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s also a giant nerd and no, you cannot stop her from bragging about her lightsaber collection. When she’s not writing SFF novels, she’s busy being a digital artist and a hardcore gaymer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jude in the Stars on January 28, 2022

I was very impatient to read this book because, well, “lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space!” And it has everything I was hoping for and more: spaceships, rebels, forbidden love, horrible villains, flawed heroines who kick ass… In a universe in which three factions are at war, two stories are tol......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on June 18, 2023

4.5 stars rounded up Be gay, do crimes. In space! Truly this was a rollicking good time and impressive as a debut novel. Bluebird is a space adventure following a lesbian gunslinger who gets caught up in some military & political messiness. The world is pretty well-realized, there's lots of action, bu......more

Goodreads review by Sunny on October 07, 2022

a very solid gunslinging lesbian space opera with a few corny and predictable elements but otherwise interesting dynamics, themes, relationships… people need to get on this instead of the locked tomb but I didn’t say that......more

Goodreads review by Emmalita on February 02, 2022

I wish I could articulate why Bluebird didn’t quite work for me. I really wanted to like it, and it has a lot of elements I did enjoy. As a whole, though, it took me a long time to get through the book and left me feeling frustrated. The blurb is great. Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space! Three f......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on November 26, 2021

I’m the first to write a proper review for this book. I wish I liked it more. I wish there was more to like in it for me. But gotta work with what there is. This book got a killer tagline. Lesbian gunslingers in space fighting spies. I mean, wow and wow, right? Well, first off, there’s really one l......more

Quotes

"Pierlot’s novel is an exciting space romp full of suspenseful chases and daring space jumps, action scenes, and rebel groups that lurk behind the scenes… Bluebird is entertaining, with rich world building, and will attract all lovers of queer space stories."
– Booklist

"Read for a lesbian gunslinger fighting spies in space who attracts the best ragamuffins to join her."
– BookRiot

"Bluebird is a stunningly assured debut novel, and a rollicking space adventure with a lot of heart... not to mention panache and pizzazz."
– Tim Pratt, Hugo Award-winning author of The Wrong Stars

"Rebellion, redemption, romance, and cinematic action: Bluebird is an imaginative space opera with a fantastic blend of heart and heroics."
– K. Eason, author of Nightwatch on the Hinterlands

"With the breathless energy of an old fashioned swashbuckler, Bluebird will leave you blue in the face."
– Patrick S. Tomlinson, author of The Children of a Dead Earth series

"Ambitious worldbuilding, spycraft, and the aforementioned gunslinging promises a space romp that’s both thrilling and thoughtful."
– Lit Hub