2025 Reading Challenge discussion

This thread is to discuss The Apollo Murders, the first book in The Apollo Murders series by Chris Hadfield.

Pages: 480 pages

Length: 1 month (April)

Participants: Beth, Thieryn

Everyone reads at their own pace during a Buddy Read. Because participants can be at different parts of the book at different times, it is extremely important to mark spoilers so that the book is not ruined for someone who is not as far along as others!!!

Mark spoilers by placing {spoiler} before the text and {/spoiler} after the text but use the < and > instead of the { and }.

Here are some questions to help get the conversation started! Feel free to look up discussion questions specific to this book or come up with your own. Just make sure any questions that contain spoilers are under spoiler tags.
Discussion questions are not required but may be a fun way to talk about the book and get to know each other!

Prior to starting:
What prompted you to join this buddy read?
Have you read this author before? What do you think of their other books?

Mid-read:
What character or ideas do you relate to the most and why?
Do you have any favorite quotes or scenes?

After reading:
What was enjoyable or not-so-enjoyable about this book?
Did this book change your perception about anything, either within the book (character development) or in real life?

Staring this one today. I'm not sure why I picked it... it's as likely because the title started with A and I needed it to fill a reading prompt. 😅

I like the idea that an astronaut wrote this!

I made some good progress (about 20%) but then put it down to finish a few other books. I'm picking it back up today and will finish by tomorrow!

I didn’t finish it. But I’ve read a lot of books in the interim. I really want to finish this today. I’m about halfway through.

Finished today. (view spoiler)[I had a tough time getting into it. Because it's such a long book, there is a lot of backstory to tell, which can be slow going. The second half of the book was much more interesting and fast paced. The last few paragraphs fell a little flat, but with the perceived bad guy dead, there wasn't a whole lot left to resolve. I would have like to have learned Chad's true story. (hide spoiler)]

Overall, ⭐⭐⭐