Defending the Galaxy (Sentinels of the Galaxy, #3)
Maria V. Snyder
2021 PRISM Award Winner for SF/Futuristic and Best of the BestYear 2522. Oh. My. Stars. Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net. Of course, no one believes me. I'm not sure I believe me. It could just be a stress-induced delusion. That's what my parents seem to believe...Their concern for me is hampering my ability to do my job. I know they love me, but with the Q-net in my corner, I'm the only one who can help the security team beat the shadowy aliens from the pits we discovered. We're holding them at bay, for now, but the entire Milky Way Galaxy is in danger of being overrun.With battles on too many fronts, it's looking dire. But one thing I've learned is when people I love are in jeopardy, I'll never give up trying to save them. Not until my dying breath. Which could very well be today...
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Well, this was a disappointing repetitive mess.
First of all, there were too many references to Toad and Mouse. Like, we get it. You have "cute" nicknames for each other but do you HAVE TO say them all the time....The author made it a point to use these IN THEIR EVERY INTERACTION EVER. 
Then there's the plot that was basically: Ara does something risky, her parents ground her, she does it again, ends up in the "hospital", surfs the Q-net a bit, wakes up, Toad calls her Mouse 249873940 times, something bad happens and we start all over again. 
Now I have to talk about Ara. The thing I really liked in the past books was her ability to use the Q net in creative ways and have like a special bond with it. But honestly, the author took it too far. She basically became The Only One™ that could save the universe and could do basically anything. Every time the DES or whoever needed help, she was the only one who could do it. It was specifically emphasised multiple times that theQ net CHOSE HER and she has AMAZING OUT OF THIS WORLD worming capabilities and she's also SMART and BRAVE and SELFLESS ANDD
Girl, you are basically doing advanced Googling....don't kid yourself....
Also, can I just say that the "terrifying galaxy needs saving" situation wasn't that dramatic? Like, I think the author should've gone with the Holfs as the "big bad" instead of the looters. It all felt very underwhelming and I didn't feel like anything disastrous was happening...
The whole book, from the plot to the characters was completely forgettable and slightly annoying
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