Lab Rat One - Andrea K. Höst

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Title: Lab Rat One (Touchstone #2)
Author: Andrea K. Höst
Genre: Sci-fi
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 232
Date read: March 2016, March 2017, March 2019, March 2021, September 2023

In the months since Cassandra Devlin walked onto another planet, she has grappled with everything from making blankets to helping psychics battle the memories of monsters. Not able to find a way home, she has instead gained friends and a purpose.

Unfortunately, that purpose brings with it the pressure of being more than a little valuable, and those she has befriended are also her guards, ordered to explore and control her abilities to find out just what it is a touchstone can do.

Test subject was not the career path Cass had been planning.

With no privacy, too-frequent injuries, and the painful knowledge that she must always be an assignment to her Setari companions, Cass can only wish for some semblance of normality and control.

And as her abilities become more and more dangerous, tests and training may be the only thing capable of protecting Cass from herself.


Very obviously the middle book in a trilogy, and as such took me ages to read. Not because it was dull, but because most of it was spent figuring stuff out (about Muina mostly) and that meant there was a lot of literary 'waiting around'. I still loved Cass though, and found it interesting to read how she slowly got more and more settled in her new life.

And of course the end was very satisfying and gratifying, and meant I'll pick up the third book right away.