John P Murphy should be writing scripts for movies because he can write a book and tell so well I felt like I was at the movies, completely immersed in this Fast and Furious / For a Few Dollars More / Babylon 5 mix, it is funny, sad and full of angst and action

Sequel please

Red Noise is very good space opera with gang wars and badass main character.

The Miner - our protagonist - decides to dock her ship at station 35 to fuel and make some money. There she finds out that the place is abandoned except three gangs with three heads of power leading them. They fight each other constantly, making a station a living hell.
So she decides to bring them all down.

As a plot is decent, the characters are what keep this book alive. The most interesting is of course our protagonist - The Miner - who we know almost nothing about. She definitely has a rich past. She has a lot of scars that can prove it. She's also intelligent and pretty badass in combat.

But still we don't know almost anything about her. There are scrapes of her story here and there, but nothing solid. And I think that was my main issue with this book, and that's why I give it 4 not 5 stars. The Miner is great, but you can't create such interesting character and tell us that she obviously suffered some loses without giving us a full backstory. I want to know what happened to her and why she became who she is now.

I have no more complaints. This book is well-paced with a good kind of humour we encounter along the way.

4 stars

Do you want a wild ride from start to finish? You've found it. Red Noise is a zany sci-fi western that sees a badass woman called The Miner roll into town - er, a space station - where the locals make the mistake of ticking her off. Chaos ensues.

I had so much fun reading this. Action and shocking twists - and sometimes it even tickled my funny bone. I quite liked this book. But I did wish there was a bit more world-building - or galaxy-building, as it were. I didn't feel like I had any grasp on the broader setting.

An excellent example of "show, don't tell" writing. Absolutely no info dumps. Its action, dialogue and a bit of internal monologue. Set in a single solar system, presumably ours, it is a space opera with action on a personal scale. Reminiscent of a western movie such as Silverado or High Noon.