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A review by lauraadriana78
Dark Space by Lisa Henry
4.0
So I REALLY enjoyed this book for various reasons:
-I LOVED LOVED Brady's voice, he was such a wonderful set of eyes to see this story from.
-I thought the premise was brilliant, the sci-fish moments (which there were really not that many of) were incredibly crisp and clear. They were strange enough to be interesting, but not too weird that they seemed gratuitously gross.
-I was surprised with the tone of this book, going on Lisa Henry's previous books I was expecting to be scared shitless half the time, and the other begging for my gag reflex to stay in check. However neither of these things happened. This book was dark, yes, but more in like a morosely despaired kind of way, there was also humor and the love story had time to grow on me.
So Brady our storyteller is recruit in the space station Defender 3. He is in the third year of his ten year conscription. He hates being there, but he has no choice his familiy had no means to keep him out of the draft. He is stuck there, missing his little sister and his father back on Earth.
Brady oscilltes between feeling sorry for himself, and being angry at everyone, but there is nothing to be done. The military needs to be prepared for an attack from The Faceless, they need every man available. The Faceless...A ruthless species who can destroy thousands of human lives swiftly in minutes...Everyone fears The Faceless and mourn the poor bastards that have fallen victim to them or like Lt. Cameron Rushton TAKEN BY THEM. Rushton is the stuff of legends...Taken four years before by the Faceless never to be heard of again.
Until the day that he comes back in a pod...Brady a medic at the station is present when they are trying to remove Rushton from the device he's in...Things get a bit out of hand and Brady ends up resucitating Rushton and for unknown reasons attached to him like a pacemaker...They have to touch ALL THE TIME...Brady's heart regulates Cameron's, he keeps him alive. The kicker is that they are in each other's head too. Every thought, every feeling, every dream they share. Cameron's lust is Brady's and Brady's homesickenss for his sister's is Cameron's hurt too. They are one...And soon that bleeds over to their physical desires. Brady is dumbfounded he isn't even gay!!
Once Cameron begins to talk he announces that the Faceless are coming. They will come to talk to the commanders of Defender 3 and unless they are smart about it, things can end pretty badly. Brady is conflicted. Is Cameron a traitor? Did he become an ally to the Faceless? He is not sure...He is also falling for Cameron, how can he help it? The man knows him inside and out and still looks at him with kindness and desire...In the midst of this Brady knows it's only a matter of time before they all die. He knows the Faceless will have no mercy. Once they come it will al be over. For all of them. So they must make their time count.
So this book had a slow pace, and a very somber tone at times, but that was how Brady felt and we were seeing things through his eyes. I loved his voice, he was so sincere in his anger, his awe at this feelings he felt for Cameron, so steady in his desire to go back to his family. He hurt about so many things, but he was so willing to let Cameron touch him in places he didn't let anyone go before. To the ends both these men were open with each other and were willing to sacrifice for what the knew was best. They did not run away from their responsibilities.
All in all I liked this book a lot. If I had a complaint would be that I would have liked to know more about the Faceless and for the Sci-Fish stuff to be more prominent, the Faceless seemed such an interesting species, I wanted to understand them a bit more...Maybe there is another book in the future...Chri Varro's Redemption perhaps.
-I LOVED LOVED Brady's voice, he was such a wonderful set of eyes to see this story from.
-I thought the premise was brilliant, the sci-fish moments (which there were really not that many of) were incredibly crisp and clear. They were strange enough to be interesting, but not too weird that they seemed gratuitously gross.
-I was surprised with the tone of this book, going on Lisa Henry's previous books I was expecting to be scared shitless half the time, and the other begging for my gag reflex to stay in check. However neither of these things happened. This book was dark, yes, but more in like a morosely despaired kind of way, there was also humor and the love story had time to grow on me.
So Brady our storyteller is recruit in the space station Defender 3. He is in the third year of his ten year conscription. He hates being there, but he has no choice his familiy had no means to keep him out of the draft. He is stuck there, missing his little sister and his father back on Earth.
Brady oscilltes between feeling sorry for himself, and being angry at everyone, but there is nothing to be done. The military needs to be prepared for an attack from The Faceless, they need every man available. The Faceless...A ruthless species who can destroy thousands of human lives swiftly in minutes...Everyone fears The Faceless and mourn the poor bastards that have fallen victim to them or like Lt. Cameron Rushton TAKEN BY THEM. Rushton is the stuff of legends...Taken four years before by the Faceless never to be heard of again.
Until the day that he comes back in a pod...Brady a medic at the station is present when they are trying to remove Rushton from the device he's in...Things get a bit out of hand and Brady ends up resucitating Rushton and for unknown reasons attached to him like a pacemaker...They have to touch ALL THE TIME...Brady's heart regulates Cameron's, he keeps him alive. The kicker is that they are in each other's head too. Every thought, every feeling, every dream they share. Cameron's lust is Brady's and Brady's homesickenss for his sister's is Cameron's hurt too. They are one...And soon that bleeds over to their physical desires. Brady is dumbfounded he isn't even gay!!
Once Cameron begins to talk he announces that the Faceless are coming. They will come to talk to the commanders of Defender 3 and unless they are smart about it, things can end pretty badly. Brady is conflicted. Is Cameron a traitor? Did he become an ally to the Faceless? He is not sure...He is also falling for Cameron, how can he help it? The man knows him inside and out and still looks at him with kindness and desire...In the midst of this Brady knows it's only a matter of time before they all die. He knows the Faceless will have no mercy. Once they come it will al be over. For all of them. So they must make their time count.
So this book had a slow pace, and a very somber tone at times, but that was how Brady felt and we were seeing things through his eyes. I loved his voice, he was so sincere in his anger, his awe at this feelings he felt for Cameron, so steady in his desire to go back to his family. He hurt about so many things, but he was so willing to let Cameron touch him in places he didn't let anyone go before. To the ends both these men were open with each other and were willing to sacrifice for what the knew was best. They did not run away from their responsibilities.
All in all I liked this book a lot. If I had a complaint would be that I would have liked to know more about the Faceless and for the Sci-Fish stuff to be more prominent, the Faceless seemed such an interesting species, I wanted to understand them a bit more...Maybe there is another book in the future...Chri Varro's Redemption perhaps.