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adamdavidcollings's review
4.0
Gemini's Key follows the story of Reid Taskiran, a young cadet who is treated unfairly because his father was marked as a traior, something Reid has never believed. When Reid's hopes for a career in the wormhole guild are crushed by a teacher who can't abide the son of a traitor in the ranks, he sets off on a new quest - to investigate and prove his father's innocence.
The investigation takes him to a partially terraformed asteroid where he discovers that his father's history is connected to a much larger conspiracy, that could spell danger to all.
I had a lot of sympathy for Reid mistreatment. While I haven't experienced this myself, I was moved by the injustice, connecting me to him as a character. I also had a soft spot for Sevan. While he wasn't in a lot of the book, he was the one friend who accepted Reid for who he was, not who his father was.
There was some nice worldbuilding in this book. From the wormholes, to the habitates on the asteroids, unique properties of different planets that affected how people lived on them, and a community of people with cybernetic implants.
There were some really cool twists and turns in the plot which open up many intruiging questions to be answered about the protagonist.
Gemini's Key is a solid opening to the Taskiran Legacy, and I look forward to seeing where H Halverstadt takes this world in the future.
The investigation takes him to a partially terraformed asteroid where he discovers that his father's history is connected to a much larger conspiracy, that could spell danger to all.
I had a lot of sympathy for Reid mistreatment. While I haven't experienced this myself, I was moved by the injustice, connecting me to him as a character. I also had a soft spot for Sevan. While he wasn't in a lot of the book, he was the one friend who accepted Reid for who he was, not who his father was.
There was some nice worldbuilding in this book. From the wormholes, to the habitates on the asteroids, unique properties of different planets that affected how people lived on them, and a community of people with cybernetic implants.
There were some really cool twists and turns in the plot which open up many intruiging questions to be answered about the protagonist.
Gemini's Key is a solid opening to the Taskiran Legacy, and I look forward to seeing where H Halverstadt takes this world in the future.
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