So every once in a while I need to take a break from all the murder and mayhem that I read about. Sometimes that break is taken even while staying in the genre and I’ll read a book that’s part of a mystery series like a Stephanie Plum book from Janet Evanovich or one featuring Parnell Hall’s Stanley Hastings or Cora Fenton the Puzzle Lady. But the fist book of 2020 was an outer space adventure from Bruce J Hutchinson Space Team:The Search for Splurt.
About The Search for Splurt
The Search for Splurt is the third book in Barry Hutchinson’s Space Team series. The series features Cal Carver a petty-criminal accidentally turned space adventurer. In this episode Cal leads his motley crew on the Shatner on a suicide mission to find his shape shifting friend Splurt.
Splurt had been captured by the the elderly assassin, Lady Vajazzle, and the evil Zertex corporation. He was to be transported to Zertex’s home base, but the ship never arrived.
After arriving at the Zertex base , where Cal is a wanted criminal, he discovers coordinates where Splurt may be. Cal manages to escape from the Zertex President and leaves their base with Zertex fighters on the Shatner’s tail! Arriving at the coordinates Cal and his crew find nothing but a wormhole. So to escape the Zertexs, the Shatner enters the wormhole, Coming out of the wormhole they crash into a very inhospitable planet. Can Splurt be there? And can Cal and his crew survive long enough to find him?
The Bottom Line
While The Search for Splurt did not walk away with any major literary awards, it’s.a winner with me! Goodreads writes this about the series..
….the laugh-out-loud sci-fi adventure series from the author critics are calling ‘the new Douglas Adams.’
I must admit that several times I did laugh out loud!
I enjoy everything about this series. It has loads of humor and a great cast of characters.
I believe the book could be read as a stand-alone, However, since it’s only the third book in the series and the books are short, I would recommend reading the first two books before reading The Search for Splurt. So Check it Out! As for me, I’m ready to move on to book four of the series Song of the Space Siren!
