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Summary: If You Like A Little Romance With Your SciFi...
Review: Ms. Sizemore has created a nice space opera with interesting species, interstellar wars, treachery, telepaths, semi-immortals, romance, plague, group marriage, addiction, death-cults, and much more. If you're a hard-core sci-fi reader there should be plenty here for you. If you're new to the genre, or if you are a romance fan, the behavior and relationships of the characters should provide a familiar basis for your introduction to this type of story. Roxanne Shirah Merkrates is a Physician in the United Systems Military system. She is also of the Koltiri race and Shirah family, which means she is a powerful empath/telepath. She's contractually married to the captain of her ship, Eamon Merkrates. A plague is rapidly decimating planets, and she is sent by the Systems Council, to Eamon's displeasure, on a mercy mission to try to find a cure for the plague. The hospital she's sent to come under attack, she escapes in a dealer's ship, is captured by slavers, and then by pirates. Pyr is the captain of the pirate ship, a being who has been already infected by the plague, is addicted to the contraband medicine that staves it off, and was recently bitten by an acolyte of a death cult which infected him with a slow-acting fatal poison. He is trying to maintain control over his ship without letting his shipmates know that he is dying. He is also pursuing his own secret agenda regarding his People, the plague and his missing crewman, Axylel. Needless to say, the meeting of Roxanne and Pyr complicates their lives in an unexpected way, resulting in a bond that is stronger than either of them anticipated. This was a story that held my interest throughout - it flowed nicely, the primary and secondary characters were nicely developed, and most importantly, it didn't bog down the reader with unnessary technobits that weren't essential to the story.
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Summary: Love and sci-fi all in one.
Review: Pyr has traveled world and has few illusions left. When a chance encounter with an insane priestess leaves him full of a slow-acting poison for which there is no cure, Pyr, spaceship captain, pirate, and warrior, steps up his efforts to rid space of a teeming, ravenous plague. Rox Merkrator is a koltarc, a legendary race of telepathic healers. She is trying her best to lead a normal life, have a normal relationship. The plague is spreading though, and even if Roxy cannot heal but one poor soul at a time, she still must try. In a nightmare existence, where death is the ultimate enemy these two beings find each other and unleash the power of their unique bond to save a universe. A satisfying science fiction presented by Speculation Press withb excellent taste.
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Summary: Love and sci-fi all in one.
Review: Pyr has traveled world and has few illusions left. When a chance encounter with an insane priestess leaves him full of a slow-acting poison for which there is no cure, Pyr, spaceship captain, pirate, and warrior, steps up his efforts to rid space of a teeming, ravenous plague. Rox Merkrator is a koltarc, a legendary race of telepathic healers. She is trying her best to lead a normal life, have a normal relationship. The plague is spreading though, and even if Roxy cannot heal but one poor soul at a time, she still must try. In a nightmare existence, where death is the ultimate enemy these two beings find each other and unleash the power of their unique bond to save a universe. A satisfying science fiction presented by Speculation Press withb excellent taste.
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Summary: This had to be said
Review: This book gets one star for (in ascending order):
poor charecter development
un-interesting plot behind the plague
Poor dialogue
Emphasis on superficial beauty
disrespect towards life (Almost all charecters killed without remorse)
and finally..
Hmm, how should I put it..well..ambivalence towards genocide.
Bottom line. YUCK.
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Summary: A Great Read
Review: This is a great book. as you read it and it ends you start looking to see if there are any more in this series. You want to know what happened to martin what will happen to axexyl, is there more to pry and to roxy, what happened to her parents whats going to happen to her sisters and what has happened to her sisters.
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