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bookgyrl's review
5.0
After reading the prequel I immediately pre-ordered this first book in a new series.
Mercy has been on the run with her mother for most of her life. At age 13, her mother disappears and Mercy is on her own. She does meet Atrea and her father Wolfgang and they are her family now. It is 15 years later. Atrea is the best friend Mercy could wish for and helps her looking for her mother. Unfortunately both women are ambushed and brought to a ship where Mercy is probed and experimented upon.
Reaper is one of the space pirates (as explained in the prequel 'Pirate Bound') and a half-Killer (this is one of his Talents, they are telepathic). He is hired by Wolfgang to retrieve his daughter. When he encounters Mercy he immediately senses she is a Queen, someone with great power in their society. After the horrible reign of the last queen Lilith it is a risk to bring young Mercy back to their ship. Mercy meets her family and has to learn her skills and who she can or cannot trust. Reaper is the brother of Dem and we see some more of Sanah and Dem and their little girl. I enjoyed the blossoming relationship between Reaper and Mercy.
The writing is pleasant and very good. I so enjoyed this story that I was disappointed it ended. I know there will be more stories of Mercy/Reaper and the epilogue was the opening to the next book.
I hope the writing duo will write fast, as I can hardly wait!
Mercy has been on the run with her mother for most of her life. At age 13, her mother disappears and Mercy is on her own. She does meet Atrea and her father Wolfgang and they are her family now. It is 15 years later. Atrea is the best friend Mercy could wish for and helps her looking for her mother. Unfortunately both women are ambushed and brought to a ship where Mercy is probed and experimented upon.
Reaper is one of the space pirates (as explained in the prequel 'Pirate Bound') and a half-Killer (this is one of his Talents, they are telepathic). He is hired by Wolfgang to retrieve his daughter. When he encounters Mercy he immediately senses she is a Queen, someone with great power in their society. After the horrible reign of the last queen Lilith it is a risk to bring young Mercy back to their ship. Mercy meets her family and has to learn her skills and who she can or cannot trust. Reaper is the brother of Dem and we see some more of Sanah and Dem and their little girl. I enjoyed the blossoming relationship between Reaper and Mercy.
The writing is pleasant and very good. I so enjoyed this story that I was disappointed it ended. I know there will be more stories of Mercy/Reaper and the epilogue was the opening to the next book.
I hope the writing duo will write fast, as I can hardly wait!
threadpanda's review
4.0
Really enjoyed this book! Epic fantasy set in space featuring a version of pirates that have special mental skills, with a great female lead at the center of it. Very well-written with excellent pacing and plotting, with a few excellently worked twists.
prationality's review
5.0
:bright shining eyes: Guys. Guys. No seriously GUYS. This book was such a welcome treat for me! Look I've been on a fanfic kick lately bc honestly a lot of the books I've read haven't EXCITED me. Oh they've been well enough, mostly, but not let me stay up until 4am to finish exciting.
PIRATE NEMESIS, the first book in the "Telepathic Pirates" series, was a complete accidental buy. Well ok not an accident so much as it was on sale and I bought it cause I had some extra money laying around. My thirst for a sci-fi romance series or book to compete with Linnea Sinclair, Jayne Castle and Carol Van Natta hasn't lessened*. But too often I've been let down.
There's a certain balance between scifi, banter, chemistry and action I require that seems hard to fulfill.
PIRATE NEMESIS knocked it out of the park tho.
I loved Mercy from the get go. I loved Reaper and Atrea and Wolfgang and Dem and Doc and Cannon and Vashti from the get go. I dug the fact that Mercy was not sure of herself but she damn well didn't let that get in the way of doing things her way. I liked that she felt a very real sense of worry that she could turn vicious, like her grandmother. I liked that Locke had a casual sense of diversity to the whole cast. I liked the romance was a slow burn bc neither felt COMPLETELY ok with the other for a while (for legit reasons).
The bad guy/final confrontation was interesting not for what the bad guy(s) did but for how it gave clarity to Mercy about the difference between absolute control, control thru fear and control through understanding. I liked that the end was kind of sappy.
I hope more answers are forthcoming. I also ship Treon/Atrea for no reason (they didn't even have a scene together!) then Atrea will SO fuck up his arrogance and it will be glorious to watch. Also I hope the series goes long enough that Snow White is rehabilitated.
And more kith please.
(*) Ruby Lionsdrake, Veronica Scott and Anna Hackett are all well loved as well, but I've found my enjoyment somewhat hit or miss with the different series they each have whereas Jayne Castle, Linnea Sinclair and Carol Van Natta I can (and have) reread many of their books over and over.
PIRATE NEMESIS, the first book in the "Telepathic Pirates" series, was a complete accidental buy. Well ok not an accident so much as it was on sale and I bought it cause I had some extra money laying around. My thirst for a sci-fi romance series or book to compete with Linnea Sinclair, Jayne Castle and Carol Van Natta hasn't lessened*. But too often I've been let down.
There's a certain balance between scifi, banter, chemistry and action I require that seems hard to fulfill.
PIRATE NEMESIS knocked it out of the park tho.
I loved Mercy from the get go. I loved Reaper and Atrea and Wolfgang and Dem and Doc and Cannon and Vashti from the get go. I dug the fact that Mercy was not sure of herself but she damn well didn't let that get in the way of doing things her way. I liked that she felt a very real sense of worry that she could turn vicious, like her grandmother. I liked that Locke had a casual sense of diversity to the whole cast. I liked the romance was a slow burn bc neither felt COMPLETELY ok with the other for a while (for legit reasons).
The bad guy/final confrontation was interesting not for what the bad guy(s) did but for how it gave clarity to Mercy about the difference between absolute control, control thru fear and control through understanding. I liked that the end was kind of sappy.
I hope more answers are forthcoming. I also ship Treon/Atrea for no reason (they didn't even have a scene together!) then Atrea will SO fuck up his arrogance and it will be glorious to watch. Also I hope the series goes long enough that Snow White is rehabilitated.
And more kith please.
(*) Ruby Lionsdrake, Veronica Scott and Anna Hackett are all well loved as well, but I've found my enjoyment somewhat hit or miss with the different series they each have whereas Jayne Castle, Linnea Sinclair and Carol Van Natta I can (and have) reread many of their books over and over.
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