If you like Doctor Who, you’ll love Carrie Hatchett’s Space Adventures.
Carrie Hatchett’s been a dog walker, ice cream seller and birthdaygram girl—the clean kind. All she wants is a proper job. But Transgalactic Intercultural Community Crisis Liaison Officer isn’t what she had in mind. And neither is saving the galaxy. Book One – Mission ImprobableThe galaxy is in crisis, and Carrie Hatchett is …
Book One – Mission Improbable
The galaxy is in crisis, and Carrie Hatchett is the last person on Earth who should be fixing it.
Carrie is a low-achieving daydreamer. After providing a good home for her butt-ugly dog and psychotic cat, her biggest challenge in life is to avoid being fired—again.
But a strange green mist sucks her beneath her kitchen sink, and an unusual clerical error leads to an offer she foolishly doesn’t refuse.
Book Two – Passage to Paradise
Carrie Hatchett is back. The Transgalactic Council may never be the same.
After a successful first mission, Carrie thought her job as Transgalactic Intercultural Community Crisis Liaison Officer was secure. But all bets are off when she travels to Dandrobia, a genetically engineered utopia.
Rogue, Carrie’s dog with a face only she could love, lends a paw.
Book Three – Transgalactic Antics
Watch out! Carrie Hatchett has a plan.
When the evil mechanical aliens, the placktoids, return, Carrie must put together a plan that actually works. A plan to rid the galaxy of the placktoid menace, and save her life.
Join Carrie on her adventures today!
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I’m still reading the series, after enjoying the first book. I like that the main character isn’t perfect and has similar, realistic challenges as many of us. Though, we’re not space or travelling like in this story just yet, other problems she faces are very real! Pets and employment, maintaining and performance, caring for and job well done, are things people can relate too.
A very funny series with an interesting twist or two or three.
Interesting premise; traveling to alien planets by way of a wormhole / gateway under the kitchen sink…plucking a unremarkable young lady to mediate disputes across the galaxy.
Starts kind of slow but gets to a boil towards the end!
I loved these books. For once, we get a heroine who isn’t beautiful, smart and tough. Instead, Carrie is lumpy and vain and irresponsible and doesn’t actually pay attention to, well, anything, because she has the attention span of a gnat. She does have two assets, though. (No, not THOSE.) Carrie is tenacious, loyal, and has a strong sense of right and wrong. Okay, three assets.
The series is intended to be comedy but the author also makes it action-packed. Carrie’s nemesis is a race of giant robotic office supplies. Toward the end of the series the author seems to forget that she’s writing comedy and goes with a high fantasy, save the universe sort of sci fi, but remarkably she makes it work with giant paperclips and shredders. It won’t replace the Foundation cycle, but it works surprisingly well.
Usually humorous sci fi or fantasy strikes me as, well, not very humorous, but these books made me smile quite often. They aren’t hilarious like Patrick McManus, but rather a mix of character-based humor and serious farce which made me fondly remember the Kedrigern fantasy serious. I thoroughly enjoyed all of them, which would be the first time for me with this genre since the aforementioned Kedrigern series of books. Highly recommended to those with a strong whimsical side.
The book contains events ranging from total fun to just plain strange.
Carrie is a teenager who finds herself in the midst of all the events and the story is how she wriggles out of each problem.
It was not hardcore science fiction but it was enjoyable by itself.
Liked the premise and even the whiny Carrie by the end of it.
Fun and fast paced!
Quirky but cute.
Carrie Hatchett is an everyday person who finds herself drawn into galactic responsibilities, regardless of her qualifications and Earth-based, boring job performance record. I loved it!
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Our heroine is not the most together person in the galaxy, but sometimes problems need an unorthodox solution.
This is a collection of three humorous SF stories, somewhere in the vein of Dr Who and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. If you are looking for hard science, realistic action, and a tough heroine that out thinks her opponents, well then this collection is not for you. But if you like a good dose of humor, improbably situations and even more improbably solutions, then climb aboard!
I found the stories to be well written and very enjoyable. There is a healthy does of humor throughout and I found our heroine to be lovable in a “never know what she is going to do next” kind of way. And as this is a collection of three books, there was plenty of entertainment to be had. Overall a very enjoyable experience.
Highly recommended.
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Will she had wanted was a normal life but soon she is in space and saving the universe. Follow her adventures through three stories and see what she needs to do to save the universe
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First book was fun, but second one just felt like more of the same. May go back and read later.
Could not get into the characters at all. The book was disjointed. Didn’t finish the series
just not my cup of Tea.. sorry
Not my cup of tea. Couldn’t get interested.
Great scifi story, easy to follow, great characters with unexpected twists.