Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

 Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson, 277 pages.

When humans speak Logi it makes them feel drunk, which makes being the translator for the Logi cultural attaché a somewhat more complicated job than many other translating positions. Lydia may not be passionate about this job, but it got her out of her dead-end hometown, and she really likes her employer. So when he is murdered while she is blackout drunk upstairs she has several reasons to be upset. Lydia has to track breadcrumbs not only to clear her own name, but to unravel the increasingly complicated plot she is trapped in.  

Sometimes science fiction books with a really interesting premise fall flat because they don't have much outside of that one great idea. This isn't one of those books. The characters are alive and compelling from the first page, and the mystery is shockingly well constructed. I did not see most of the twists coming, but did find it very satisfying how they fit together. My only real complaint is that the ending felt a little to rushed to properly resolve the great plot it followed. This feels like a great entry point for anyone interested in getting into sci-fi.