Books by Sara King
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review 1: Yes, this book is a page turner. Yes, it has many women characters. "Character-driven" - well, perhaps, though not necessarily characters you would like to meet nor characters that are described in all that much depth. But mostly it is a quite brutal adventure story (it is the ad...
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review 1: I really wanted to like this book because I enjoy the damaged heroine premise and it is nearly impossible to find ones in which the heroine or hero don't lust after each other in the first chapter (so unbelievable and belittling of women who have suffered trauma!) the problem wit...
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review 1: A love story about Wolverine and Jean Gray? The premise was good but I felt like getting from point A to point B in this book was so long winded I wasn't relishing the details as I should have. It was like going around in circles sometimes. All in all it was a good start for the ...
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review 1: Ahhhhhh! (That's a loving scream, not a terrified scream). I'm in love with this series! Great characters, great world building, great plot. Really... What more could one ask for? I was hooked from the start, and not in a 'I'm hooked now, but my interest will wane eventually' k...
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review 1: This is one of the best new entries in the SF market - begins with Forging Zero which is an Ender's Game for grownups. Sara King does dialogue and plots v. well and v. intricately. The second - Zero Recall - is better than the first: more amazing aliens, more interspecies friend...
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review 1: Awesome take on the end of the world as we know it. Sara has an amazing knack to effectively aussage other genres of writing and still stay firmly in the wheelhouse of sci-fi military. Her characters are incredibly compelling and realistic in their authenticity. I could imagine t...
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review 1: Do you like people getting non consensual brain surgery? Then this might be the book for you! That's not a euphemism, there are two potentially explosive devices shoved into unwitting character's craniums in this book. One has blades that pop out of it for dramatic effect! Edgy! ...
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review 1: I bought 'Wings of Retribution' by Sara King as part of my quest to find books to fill the Firefly-shaped hole that Fox’s cancellation of the show left in my life. Alas, I’ve yet to find anything that’s even remotely the right size or shape. This book started off really, REALLY w...