We've got two points of view, on opposing sides, a cult storyline, the more imminent hazards aboard the spaceship, betrayal and even a romantic sideline. Most of this book takes place in a single day, with the odd jump back in time for the original disaster aboard the abandoned spaceship it takes place on. I think part of the problem is there was just a bit too much going on for the timeline. Shallow Graves remains one of my favourite books (though I'm due a reread), but Salvation Day just didn't hit me at the same level. Project TBR can't knock it out of the park every time.

Blood pumped into microgravity behaves oddly, like a living thing, unbound and restless, drifting, cooling.

Human bodies are messy, imperfect things, a tangle of crossed signals and incomplete messages. When a person dies there are seconds when the heart still squeezes, not yet knowing it is time to stop. But it was on the cusp of being something terrifying, so that added stress really set a darker, higher stakes tone for the book. It wasn't really horror, but horror-adjacent, as I never found any of it SCARY. I won't say more about the plot, because spoilers, but I definitely recommend this book to readers of sci-fi/space thrillers who like a little bit of potential horror mixed in. You get depth and developed characters, but it never sits down or goes so slow that you get bored. The pacing is fast, but not so fast that it blows past the story. haunted in a science fiction technical kinda way. It's an almost-horror sci-fi thriller novel, set in space, on an abandoned spacecraft. But I'm so glad I finally picked it up! Once I got sucked in, I couldn't put it down! I read huge chunks every sitting! I put off reading it, fiddlefarted around, avoiding it. I was ambivalent about this one when I accepted the ARC. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Salvation Day by Kali Wallace