Science Fiction Romance published by Dianne Duvall 11 Oct 22
Tired of hunting and killing vampires’ night after night, Simone volunteers to accompany a small group of her brethren to outer space in search of a change and new adventure. When the ship that is conveying the group is attacked in outer space, Simone survives in an escape pod, locked on to the ship that attacked her friends and family, vowing vengeance. So begins a space adventure that is intense, compelling, and addictive.
Janwar, space pirate, friend to the Lasaran prince, is also in pursuit of the same ship, when he and his crew find the number of life forms in the ship are declining and watch in awe as a figure in a white space suit launches itself after an escape pod that manages to leave the enemy ship. Armed with her katanas, Simone can do a fair amount of damage, and, joined with Janwar and his crew, she’s going to kick butt in space against the Gathendiens.
Even though Simone is 700 years old, she has that wide-eyed innocence and love of adventure. I love how her character enjoys her space adventure looking for character similarities between those depicted in the popular Star Wars and Star Trek films. Her empathy and how she is able to share emotions with some of the folks who have eschewed emotions and their response to feeling emotions reaches out and makes a similar emotional connection to readers – at least it did for me.
I enjoyed visiting with the characters in the earlier series and can’t wait to see where the author will take this series next. I am definitely a fan.
Grade: A
Summary:
Simone has hunted and slain psychotic vampires’ night after night for hundreds of years and desperately needs a change. When the leader of the Immortal Guardians offers her an opportunity to guard ten mortal women who are venturing to another planet, she dives right in and finds traveling into space and meeting amazing alien races just as exciting as she’d hoped… until an enemy attacks. Simone saves everyone she can before she’s thrust into an escape pod and the ship explodes. Alone, fearing some—if not all—of her friends have been killed, she vows to seek vengeance.
Despite his fierce reputation and propensity for violating the law, Janwar has formed a friendship with strait-laced Prince Taelon of Lasara. When the prince’s ship is destroyed, Janwar joins the massive Aldebarian Alliance-wide search and rescue mission and soon locates the Gathendien ship that launched the attack. An odd thing happens, however, as he and his crew stealthily approach it. The lifeforms inside begin to perish, two or three at a time in quick succession. Much to his surprise, someone else has reached the ship first: one of the very Earth women he hoped to rescue.
Fascinatingly fierce, Simone bands together with Janwar and his crew to search for her missing friends and wreak havoc upon those who wish to harm them. She also widens eyes, drops jaws, and sparks laughter and mischief as she banishes the warriors’ world-weariness and makes each day seem like a new adventure. The friendship that grows between Janwar and Simone swiftly deepens into love. But the enemy warriors they face are tenacious and boast more weapons in their arsenal than the alliance knows. Can Janwar, Simone, and such a small crew vanquish them?
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