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severina2001's review
5.0
A wrongly-convicted former soldier is released from prison – along with his pet draco, Elvis – and gets involved in the life of a young street thief and the members of her loose community of misfits.
I'm going to go on the record as saying that I didn't expect to love this as much as I did! This is a super-fun, non-stop ride. Set on a planet that was founded when environmental factors forced the people of Earth to flee to the stars, McClure does a fantastic job of whimsical world-building here. The cities are named after large corporations (Nike, Tesla, Nasa) which makes sense because it was those organizations that paid for the flights. There are so many playful and imaginative quirks to the world-building, like old cans of Dr. Pepper and Budweiser being displayed as rare antiquities. Love it!
The story focuses on the soldier, Gideon, who returns home to Nike only to end up on the bad guy's radar. It's a rollicking fun read filled with witty banter and an assortment of amusing characters, and the clever writing manages to connect even the littlest events with each other by the end of the book. The action keeps flowing until the final pages. So well done!
I'm going to go on the record as saying that I didn't expect to love this as much as I did! This is a super-fun, non-stop ride. Set on a planet that was founded when environmental factors forced the people of Earth to flee to the stars, McClure does a fantastic job of whimsical world-building here. The cities are named after large corporations (Nike, Tesla, Nasa) which makes sense because it was those organizations that paid for the flights. There are so many playful and imaginative quirks to the world-building, like old cans of Dr. Pepper and Budweiser being displayed as rare antiquities. Love it!
The story focuses on the soldier, Gideon, who returns home to Nike only to end up on the bad guy's radar. It's a rollicking fun read filled with witty banter and an assortment of amusing characters, and the clever writing manages to connect even the littlest events with each other by the end of the book. The action keeps flowing until the final pages. So well done!
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