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Wings Of Retribution (2012)

by Sara King(Favorite Author)

4.23 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Amazon

series

Millennium Potion

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 well. The opening pages were well-written: the scenes were intricately and evocatively described, the characters seemed interesting, and the dialogue was sharp, but as the story progressed everything descended into cliche, and character development was soundly sacrificed on the alter of plot. Bit of a disappointment. 2/5
review 2: I am a fairly new and generally rabid fan of this independent author. She bills herself as a "character-driven-fiction writer" of fantasy and sci-fi, and... more boy is that working for her. Her books are CRAZY well done. You are not going to believe that she is an independent. She's EXCELLENT. My only complaint is that she has the beginnings of several series but not many sequels. (And the only one with several installments is the lone series I dislike by her-mostly because it's military and has too much cruelty for my taste.)This is the first book in a space-pirate series (waiting on book 2 to be published). It's about a society where people can live forever as long as they have access to doses of the millennium potion, which was created by Athenais' dad. He used her and her kindergarten friends as test subjects of the first version of the potion, and she and those friends are now completely immortal. Even if they burn to ash, they still regenerate. Athenais has MANY daddy issues related to this, and has wanted to take the old man down for a long time. So she's been in various resistances and worked as a pirate, just to be a thorn in his side. Now she's drawn into a crazy adventure that has a tiny chance of destroying the potion, but her friends become targets because of her, and it looks really bad for the lot of them until the end. Strangely, though, the tone stays on the light side, despite some sad and scary times in the book. The tone saves the story and makes it a lot of fun to read.Loved the Dallas York "stick fairy" character - a stick fairy is an extremely rare individual who can fly a spaceship well manually. Also loved Rabbit, the telepathic sea creatures, and the symbiotic parasite Stuart. I'd love to see Stuart's race hire a PR firm to come up with a campaign for them. I could see them marketing themselves as a humane alternative to execution, or as "seeing eye dogs" for people with brain damage, or as medical therapists for those stuck in comas, or the easiest way to lose a TON of weight and get your body into peak condition (no personal willpower necessary!) Heck, they could be the best circus trainers EVER. It's ALWAYS about the spin, after all. I thought the "idiot people destroy what they don't understand and exploit everything they get their hands on" message was well delivered through entirely believable examples. On the other hand, I think people will eventually accept anything, no matter how unlikely seeming at first, so my marketing ideas for Stuart don't seem far-fetched as all to me. I'm surprised that something like that wasn't in the book. less

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