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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The House of Reclamation is an organization dedicated to rescuing those who are in distress regardless of their affliction.
Those who join have their own reasons for being apart of the house but all had denounced their loyalty towards other groups.
A team from the House of Reclamation answered a distress call from a downed passenger ship and the closer they get the more the crew realizes that there's more going on with that ship than they thought.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
All the characters were well developed.
The multiple POVs added context to each POV even if that character wasn't aware of the connection.
I loved most of the characters and I have a soft spot for Nod
The only character I wasn't a fan of was Ona Sudak.
Like she's an unrepentant war criminal.
She didn't feel guilty for her actions and she kept justifying them to herself and anyone who would listen.
The only thing that she feels bad about was that her people wanted to put her on trail as they should because she committed a genocide.
I also couldn't believe she tried to use Adam as a example of a good human when she didn't even really care about him.
Like she only slept with him because she wanted to use his musings for a poem.
She didn't care about him as a person, so I kinda grinned when the Judge said he was a child and shouldn't be used as an example.
Anyways, it's a great light space opera read and it's really enjoyable. Most of the things sprinkled throughout the book connects to the end.
Those who join have their own reasons for being apart of the house but all had denounced their loyalty towards other groups.
A team from the House of Reclamation answered a distress call from a downed passenger ship and the closer they get the more the crew realizes that there's more going on with that ship than they thought.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
All the characters were well developed.
The multiple POVs added context to each POV even if that character wasn't aware of the connection.
I loved most of the characters and I have a soft spot for Nod
Spoiler
though at times I worried about them and their working conditions. I hope they're getting hazard pay.The only character I wasn't a fan of was Ona Sudak.
Spoiler
Like she's an unrepentant war criminal.
She didn't feel guilty for her actions and she kept justifying them to herself and anyone who would listen.
The only thing that she feels bad about was that her people wanted to put her on trail as they should because she committed a genocide.
I also couldn't believe she tried to use Adam as a example of a good human when she didn't even really care about him.
Like she only slept with him because she wanted to use his musings for a poem.
She didn't care about him as a person, so I kinda grinned when the Judge said he was a child and shouldn't be used as an example.
Anyways, it's a great light space opera read and it's really enjoyable. Most of the things sprinkled throughout the book connects to the end.
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
There have been some really fantastic found family style sci-fi novels I have read recently, and this one is certainly up there! Embers of War follows the story of a former warship (The Trouble Dog), whose AI got a conscience and refused to be a fighter any more instead joining a humanitarian organisation to assist and rescue spaceships in distress. The crew members have found themselves there for various reasons, some having fought on opposing sides in a recent war. The development of the relationships of the crew and the ship form the backbone of the novel.
Overlaid over this is a much grander space opera style story. The former war is referenced multiple times, and the implications of this play large in the politics at play. The Trouble Dog is drawn in when it sent to the aid of a downed space liner in a mysterious space system.
The characters really do shine in this novel, Gareth Powell really makes you care for them despite all their various differences. Thoroughly enjoyed, and I am looking forward to seeing the story continue to develop!
Overlaid over this is a much grander space opera style story. The former war is referenced multiple times, and the implications of this play large in the politics at play. The Trouble Dog is drawn in when it sent to the aid of a downed space liner in a mysterious space system.
The characters really do shine in this novel, Gareth Powell really makes you care for them despite all their various differences. Thoroughly enjoyed, and I am looking forward to seeing the story continue to develop!
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
This felt like fairly solid space opera sci-fi. There were some great ideas, the characters were all fairly interesting, the pacing could be better but wasn't bad, and the story had some plot holes but nothing extreme. There are some really wild moments with the characters, in a fun way. It almost seems to be making a point, but undermines itself; however, that could just be characters learning slowly and might be built upon later in the series. There were still some solid moments, and as long as you're going in expecting it to be more or less a decent space opera read, you'll have a good time.
I do have some opinions about the way medical stuff is handled (a person with just weeks of training performs complex emergency abdominal surgery with unsteady hands, verbally guided by another person who has experience not as a surgeon but as a field medic), but it's only a few scenes. The book isn't trying to go in-depth on medical stuff, it's not uncommon for the genre and it's pretty forgivable.
I do have some opinions about the way medical stuff is handled (a person with just weeks of training performs complex emergency abdominal surgery with unsteady hands, verbally guided by another person who has experience not as a surgeon but as a field medic), but it's only a few scenes. The book isn't trying to go in-depth on medical stuff, it's not uncommon for the genre and it's pretty forgivable.
adventurous
dark
hopeful
fast-paced