Amy’s Reviews > Europa > Status Update

...psychological testing they use to make sure candidates are mentally suited to high stress situations and it utterly breaks this book for me. I can rationalize shit like this when a cast is thrown together (whoever happens to be present) or has in-story reasons (like that novel where unsuitable people were chosen deliberately for nefarious reasons), but neither of those are present here. In fact, NASA had every....

Then, finally seeing for herself that her precious Jake is, definitely, either dead or desperately wishing to be, she fucking freezes. The pilot dies horribly because she refuses to unlock the door and just watches him plead for help before being eaten. By the time she FINALLY does SOMETHING useful, it's only blowing up the ship in an attempt to kill the creatures. This woman NEVER should have it past whatever....

...person job, leaving Nina to do it by herself while Heather and the pilot are supposed to be babysitting the ship. Then, when the dead expedition members seem to come rocking up - apparently fine despite a 10 MILE HIKE IN -250° TEMPS AND UNSUITABLE ATMOSPHERE DESPITE THIER HELMETS BEING GONE AND THE SUITS OPEN - what does Heather do? She promptly bails on the pilot to open the airlock, letting the monsters in.

Like: What reason does Nina have to lie? She's not abandoning two team members - both of whom have crucial skillsets - for funzies. And even when Heather sees their suits WITHOUT HELMETS, EXPOSED TO AN ENVIRONMENT SHE KNOWS THEY CANNOT SURVIVE, she still tries to insist that they should go back and render aid.

Then, after getting back to the ship, Heather REFUSES to help Nina rescue the dive crew, at least a two...

Heather has got to be the most profoundly useless member of an exploratory team EVER. In fact, she's worse than useless: she's an active hindrance to the survival of the others. Her maybe-BF gets infected by native fauna and dies horribly after infecting someone else, who also dies horribly. Nina manages to make it back on to the rover, where she tells Heather the other two are dead and Heather REFUSES TO BELIEVE IT