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Athena's Ashes (2014)

by Jamie Grey(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

069227751X (ISBN13: 9780692277515)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Clever Crow Press

series

Star Thief Chronicles

review 1: (I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review).(This review may contain spoilers).I don’t have this happen very often with books, but when I keep thinking back on this book, I feel like I read it in first person. It’s not actually written in first person… but I think that Renna is a character I was able to relate to so well, I was able to truly connect with her.At first, this book seemed much more contained than Star Thief. That didn’t last for very long, though, and I was quickly drawn back into the world contained within this book.I really found myself liking Viktis even more in this book… and I really disliked Finn. I did feel that Renna came across as a really strong character in this book. She was really easy to empathise with and the implant... more that she was dealing with was pretty intriguing, as well as very scary at certain points. I felt the author did a good job of showing the development of the different abilities that the changed implant was giving Renna.I liked the nod to various bits of Greek mythology, from the title to the codenames. Being a big fan of Greek mythology, I really appreciated those uses.I really appreciated the fact that the author made the bad guys more human, rather than just evil for the sake of being evil. Villains who believe they’re doing the right thing are always the most interesting kinds.I felt that the world itself was a really intriguing one. Although I didn’t see nearly as many of the alien races that I would have liked to, it was definitely clear that there was a much bigger world outside of what was going on with Renna and her ‘guys’.I would have really liked to see more of Viktis’ romance… actually, probably just more of him generally. In many ways, he makes me think of Han Solo from Star Wars… the rogue who isn’t technically one of the good guys, but still comes through anyway.I found this book to be really well-written and if you like young adult science fiction books, this series is definitely one that’s worth reading. At some point in the future, I’d like to read the novella in this series and I also plan to at least check out more books by this author at some stage.
review 2: **I received an eARC of this book from the author for a fair and honest review.**OH WOW. Just finished. Where to start? Um. Just wow. So Athena's Ashes picks up where The Star Thief left off, and takes you on a ride to places you'd never expect, with conflicts you'd never expect, and left me with a love for a certain space pirate I never expected LOL. This was a fantastic sequel to the first book, and although I had some issues with Renna repeating the whole "used to be alone/now have to rely on others" thing a lot, overall, I very much enjoyed this book. And that ending! The ending!If you're looking for a great NA Sci-Fi read, and love space, tech, and pirates, this is it! less

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