Very good

Very enjoyable well thought out story and plenty of action. Good narration by Natasha Soudek.

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Great book cannot wait for more

Having listened avidly to this book and been thoughrouly transfixed by the story I cannot wait for the sequel as the writer has left me suspended in air in anticipation of the continuing story line. I do hope that audible produces the next chapter and eagerly wait its publication. I can honestly recommend this book to any avid science fiction fan it is a fascinating listen.

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Liked the narrator

Liked the smoky voice - good for a battle hardened character- lots of action and story line. I would recommend this to anybody

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Hot Damn!

Action! A kickass heroine! Serious intrigue! A plot that twists and turns! An author who keeps a hot pace while slowly doling out info bombs that change the playing field. A budding romance that doesn't control the plot. If I wore a wig, this book would have blown it off!

Gimme some more!

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main character development and world building

Although the main character, Kira, makes some incredulously stupid decisions that seem more.ADD informed than as a responsible captain alone w one nonorganic crew member in the middle of space, something about Kira drew me in. And the book slowly told me why. The author's slow reveal of critical aspects of Kira's history and that of her closest friend, reveals about the new culture in which she is embedded, all well done. The romance isn't pushed, amd is tastefully grown, although I think it is outdated and harmful to refer to women as 'quarry' by the romantic interest in the 21st century.

The world building is really fantastic, with clues laid down that I hope are developed in the later books. The physicality of the world, its creatures, architecture, and more, are carefully wrought and compellingly described. I was there!

Some things are overlooked, e.g. when Kira leaves all her belongings, where does she get clothes and other sundries? How does her friend recharge? surely chargung ports aren't universal across species? Why isn't she given a crash course on her birthright culture? Why doesn't the Overlord demand more investigation into the assassination attempt?

The performance / reading was very good when it cane to the oppositional main character, and her bantering bestie. Not sure why almost all the male characters and a few of the female ones sound like annoyed, heavy smokers. It was often hard to tell who was speaking from the actual voice. For someone like me w brain injuries, that meant I had to scroll back a lot to keep track. Others may not have that difficulty.

An entertaining read / listen all in.

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Only one negative.

There's really only one thing not perfect in this performance: graydans voice. Sounds like a 100 year old smoker.

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Loved this book!

I enjoyed T.A. White’s Pathfinder series, but I think I liked this book even more. Looking forward to more books in the series.

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Excellent plot, action and character development

A good read with strong plot, and good buildup of action with elements of romance

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Amazing 😍

Oh my god I absolutely loved this book! I loved it so much I immediately went and brought the second one in the series! I couldn’t put this down and listened to it within 2 days!! This is the second book of this author and I have to say I’m really enjoying how the female characters Are written, there strong and confident but realistic as they all seem to have slight imperfections which makes them even more likeable. The world she creates is so vivid with lots of details And you can easily imagine it. The narrator did a wonderful job on the characters and you could really feel there personality coming out while she’s reading it. It has easily become one of my favourites.
I recommend it 100 times over!

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Loved this, great story, well narrated

I know this book well, read it and the next two several times, and am impatiently waiting for book 4, so I knew what I was letting myself in for. I couldn't find anything new I wanted to listen to, and this book was gently knocking at my brain letting me know a re-read was needed, so I decided to listen instead. It's really well narrated, although I worried about the narrator's throat, she makes Graydon so gruff - it'll be interesting to see if she keeps it up for the next one (already downloaded!). This author writes good books, with fine leading ladies, but Kira is my favourite.

Here's my Amazon review from 3 years ago:
This is good - it catches the attention from the off and never drops. Heroine is a capable, intelligent, resourceful woman - and I mean woman, she’s a veteran with a troubling history who’s been around a bit. There were echoes of the authors Aileen Travers novels for me - in both books the main character is a loner, forced by circumstance, and things she can’t control, into co-operating/working with people she really would rather not.

This is, as another reviewer has said, sci-fi lite. The nice aliens are utterly humanoid as far as I can make out, while the nasty aliens are not. There’s no detail on how space travel is undertaken, no FTL drives, or jumps - Kira is technically capable, ably assisted by Jin, but we don’t hear much of the detail. I thought the razor dust was a neat idea!

There’s some good and well described world building, there are powerful people who manipulate others for their own, or higher, ends, there are old colleagues with grudges, questions and long memories, there are snotty arrogant Tuann, with some maybe not as bad as the others. There’s a big cast of characters here, and I did lose track a bit at times of who was human, who was Tuann, who was friendly and who wasn’t. A cast of characters would have been handy.

There aren’t any friends, apart from Jin, and he has his limitations, so Kira is very alone, not helped by her determination to not get close, not get involved, and to make her escape back to her solitary, scavenger life. Yes there are old colleagues from what used to be a cohesive team, but Kira left them, and they’re pi**ed with her.

Kira has a big secret that isn’t revealed until quite near the end. There are vague hints, but nothing to really sign post what’s to come. There’s one of those James Bond moments where the baddies are chortling about how now they’ve caught someone they really, really want, they’re going to kill them. The executioner is all lined up, but with all the gloating and chortling, a fairly credulity stretching escape is effected - using the big secret reveal, and giving me a "What the...?" moment. But it really doesn’t matter - by that stage you’re whooping them all on! I was wondering, towards the very end, how the author was going to deal with the circumstances she’d created, but she does, of course. She's the author!

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