I really, really enjoyed this book. Though I groaned at the title, not another Aurora! This must be the most over used word in SciFi book titles on Amazon. If you read a lot of cheap Kindle editions, it becomes very hard to keep them straight. Seems like every other book has Aurora in the title. Stop the Madness!
Anyway, despite the title, I LOVED the book. The chapters with the two main characters are simply fantastic. The chapters without out them do seem to drag on a bit, but they are necessary to build up the political structure that the author then sets on fire and watches it implode.
I have to be honest, one of the things I really did enjoy was the incredibly steamy sex scene. It is so enjoyable to read it from a female author's point of view. It's so different from all the male oriented crap that fills the cheap Kindle pages. Here, the author focuses on taste and scent, whereas for a guy, it's usually about looks and feel. I found the shift in perspective delightful, and the entire episode is so well written, with such vivid intensity and tremendous emotional highs and lows and risks and fears and exquisite joy and anguish. It's just superb. I even made my wife read it :-)
The technology in the book is...appropriate to the story line. The integrated quantum communications link is sort of taken for granted and not explained (and how can quantum comms be disrupted by a nebula????), but generally, there are no glaring issues, and as stated, it helps establish the story, not subtract from it. I'm totally in with where she is going on the tech side.
I was disappointed in the length of the book. As the author's first foray into this world of self-publishing, I can see wanting to dip a toe in the waters, but I am hating the trend of never finishing a story line and stringing it out into volume after volume (three in this particular case). I miss the good old days when an author would write a book, with a beginning, middle, and end.
Nonetheless. I look forward to Jennsen's continuation of this particular story, though how she can keep up the quality of Chapter 47 remains to be seen....
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SERIES IN THE AMARANTHE UNIVERSE
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Epic, Galaxy-Spanning Space Opera AdventureAurora Rising is an epic tale of galaxy-spanning adventure, of the thrill of discovery and the unquenchable desire to reach ever farther into the unknown. It's a tale of humanity at its best and worst, of love and loss, of fear and heroism. It's the story of a woman who sought the stars and found more than anyone imagined possible. |
Cyberpunk Meets Space Opera - a New Entry Point for the Amaranthe UniverseWhen man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life. Enter a world of technological wonders, exotic alien life, enthralling characters, captivating worlds—and a terrifying evil lurking in the void that will shatter it all. |
The Worlds of Aurora Rhapsody & Asterion Noir CollideIn Amaranthe, where exotic alien life, AIs, wormholes, indestructible starships and the promise of immortality rule the day, no feat seems out of reach for humanity. But when the Rasu horde arrives, more will be asked of heroes past and future. More will be given and more taken, and when the dust settles the very fabric of Amaranthe will be changed forever. |
Short Stories Set in the Amaranthe UniverseSee the characters of Amaranthe as you've never seen them before in a series of short stories exploring the characters and history of the Amaranthe universe. |
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