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Start giftingFloating Hotel
a cosy and charming read to escape with
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12 hours 14 minutes
Language
English
'Smart, bold and so much fun . . . I'm officially a member of the Grace Curtis fan club' AMIE KAUFMAN
The Grand Budapest Hotel in space, Floating Hotel is a hopeful story of misfits, rebels and found family, perfect for fans of Becky Chambers, Martha Wells and Aliette de Bodard.
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. Year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way. The last word in sub-orbital luxury - and a magnet for intrigue. Intrigues such as:
Why are there love poems in the lobby intray?
How many Imperial spies are currently on board?
What is the true purpose of the Problem Solver's conference?
And perhaps most pertinently - who is driving the ship?
At the centre of these mysteries stands Carl, one time stowaway, longtime manager, devoted caretaker to the hotel. It's the love of his life and the only place he's ever called home. But as forces beyond Carl's comprehension converge on the Abeona, he has to face one final question: when is it time to let go?
** AUTHORS LOVE GRACE CURTIS **
'A beautiful novel . . . You will turn every page hoping for one hundred more' HANNAH KANER
'Curtis oozes charm and humour' TAMSYN MUIR
'An absolute marvel' BETH REVIS
'A real treat' MAX GLADSTONE
'Bittersweet and breathtaking' JULES ARBEAUX
'Beautiful and clever, sad and hopeful, subtle and profoundly moving . . . A heartbreak and a hug' CLAIRE NORTH
'If you read one sci-fi novel this year, make it this one' KATE DYLAN
** READERS LOVE FLOATING HOTEL **
'I was completely immersed ' Netgalley, Five Stars
'Made me laugh and tear up and restore a little hope in humanity' Netgalley, Five Stars
'Grace Curtis is a wonderful writer' Netgalley, Five Stars
'Unique and brilliant' Netgalley, Five Stars
'Deliriously divine' Netgalley, Five Stars
Grace Curtis is a freeroaming writer from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Her debut Frontier, a queer space western about climate change (really), came out in March last year. The follow up Floating Hotel was a bestseller in the UK. When she's not dreaming up stories, Grace can usually be found up a hill somewhere, climbing or hiking or lolling idly in the grass. Idolfire is her first work of fantasy. There will be more!
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A beautiful novel, magnificently told. Floating Hotel is a story of love, gentle rebellion and mystery pulled through a ragtag bunch of outstanding and dangerous misfits who have all found their way to the stars. Curtis is a master of turning the screw of the story tighter with each page as she inexorably takes us through the lives of the characters to the centre of political intrigue and danger. You will turn every page hoping for one hundred more When I'm rich I'm booking a tour on the Grand Abeona Hotel. Grace Curtis's ability to populate that wonderful, crumbling old relic with characters you really come to love is absolutely exceptional, and Floating Hotel is a joy from arrival to check-out. Mine's a martini, Carl! A funny, humane, and sneaky novel-Floating Hotel is intricate and welcoming as the Grand Abonea around which it revolves, a treasured space in a treacherous universe. Theirs, I mean. Ours too Quietly incredible - a constellation of lives, each rendered with warmth and wit, building up a picture of connection, sanctuary, and resistance. The kind of book I want to live in PRAISE FOR GRACE CURTIS Curtis oozes charm and humour Delightfully inventive Smart, bold and so much fun . . . I'm officially a member of the Grace Curtis fan club An absolute marvel to behold! Bittersweet and breathtaking, with evocative prose and a scope that's somehow both intimate and galaxy-spanning, FLOATING HOTEL is like the Abeona itself. It invites you to enjoy its atmospheric and multi-layered story and lovable cast at your leisure-and the deeper you get, the less willing you are to let it go. Grace Curtis has a new fan for life! PRAISE FOR FLOATING HOTEL This book was a joy to read. It was beautiful and clever, sad and hopeful, subtle and profoundly moving all at once. Grace Curtis has written a novel dripping with humane observation and brilliant craft, weaving together a story that catches you by the heart, even as it pulls you across the galaxy. It is both a heartbreak and a hug in a book; an awesome achievement Curtis has done it again - delivering a high stakes slice of life novel that's bleeding with heart. The underbelly of the Abeona hotel may be rotting with secrets, but like the guests, you'll be too dazzled by its effortless charm to notice. If you read one sci-fi novel this year, make it this one It is here that Curtis's second novel shines, with the quirky wit of a Wes Anderson film and a deeply grounded and human sense of the importance of found family, this lovable adventure through space seems to be anything other than distant The sense of place is superb, the characters are wonderful studies of humanity, differences are celebrated, diversity feels established. I found friends with whom I empathised and commiserated. I observed others with sadness, and found hope and jubilation as I got to know those on board. Highly recommended, Floating Hotel is a triumph of observation and deserves to fly You'll be sucked into the Abeona's world on a sweet, surprisingly sentimental journey across the Milky Way Even when the stakes are high, Curtis has a knack for keeping things intimate and understated, peeling back the layers of the novel's scrappy found family. Centering optimism in the face of an increasingly dark universe, this feel-good saga lingers long after it's finished Expand reviewsOtherland is proud to partner with Libro.fm to give you a great audiobook experience.