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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
Delightful sci fi
I couldn't stop reading! The main character, Darcy, was intriguing and authentic. The alien world and people in it were delightfully colorful and, well, alien. I loved seeing how this story was gradually tying in with Fluency. Can't wait to read the next one!
I couldn't stop reading! The main character, Darcy, was intriguing and authentic. The alien world and people in it were delightfully colorful and, well, alien. I loved seeing how this story was gradually tying in with Fluency. Can't wait to read the next one!
Inheritance is the third book in the Confluence series, but it is quite the departure from the first two. This book leaves Jane and her friends and instead follows a new heroine, Darcy, a second-year medical student and descendant of an ancient alien race that interbred with humans for centuries. She is ripped from her everyday life when she and her boyfriend, Adam, are abducted by aliens.
I enjoyed the two earlier books, but this was a nice pace change, allowing us to glimpse the wider universe only hinted at in the previous books. Again, the world-building is fantastic, with some weird, wonderful aliens, unique characters and fun technology. It's a page-turner from the start, but the action really hots up towards the end, and I read the book's last quarter in one sitting, which shows how into it I was.
It's unclear how this will tie into the wider Confluence story, but I'm keen to find out. Bring on book 4!
I enjoyed the two earlier books, but this was a nice pace change, allowing us to glimpse the wider universe only hinted at in the previous books. Again, the world-building is fantastic, with some weird, wonderful aliens, unique characters and fun technology. It's a page-turner from the start, but the action really hots up towards the end, and I read the book's last quarter in one sitting, which shows how into it I was.
It's unclear how this will tie into the wider Confluence story, but I'm keen to find out. Bring on book 4!
This felt like a brand new book/series, not a third installment.
2.5 stars, rounded up. General story outline is interesting, execution is lacking. Characters are shallow with attempts at accurately portraying their human limitations coming off as laborious and leaves them as annoying. Fortunately, we don't have to suffer though much portrayal of men in this volume.
The best so far!
I’ve read the first two books in this series and I was getting a little worried about the direction of the series. This is a breath of fresh air and a fun story. And it ends up tying into the main story at the very end. Although I have to wonder if that wasn’t added to the end of the story. Nonetheless it is well worth reading and could easily be read as the First in the series without messing anything up. Which is an accomplishment in itself.
I’ve read the first two books in this series and I was getting a little worried about the direction of the series. This is a breath of fresh air and a fun story. And it ends up tying into the main story at the very end. Although I have to wonder if that wasn’t added to the end of the story. Nonetheless it is well worth reading and could easily be read as the First in the series without messing anything up. Which is an accomplishment in itself.
I liked the first two books in this series well enough, but suddenly in this one we have a new main character and while it’s the same universe, the tone has changed substantially. The scope or scale of the story also felt different, because that character is kept locked up and in the dark for the majority of the book.
I found the treatment of the primary subject matter, namely: slavery - to be incredibly distasteful. The whole book was cringy in how it dealt with this topic. Mainly it was that it really didn’t deal with it at all, just used as a flimsy and poorly drawn backdrop.
I guess another thing I really disliked was how there was a super interesting and sympathetic character introduced in a short story before the book (Hain), who is then turned into a villain in this book. Oh sure, there are hints that she’s being forced to act as a henchman for the true villain, and then at the end her actions are described to have been the result of blackmail. But her actions were to directly participate in (and in fact help run!) a galactic slavery ring. I cannot believe for a second that she should be redeemed or forgiven for them. She clearly had plenty of freedom on the ship and opportunity to act against her “master”. If this character returns (and is trusted at all), I will be upset about it.
I also have a general dislike for the trope where magic or super powers exist in some percentage of humans, we just don’t know how to unlock or access it. This is such a fantasy cliche that I often have to forgive it or get over it to enjoy a book. It was just slightly more annoying to find it in science fiction. :P
I found the treatment of the primary subject matter, namely: slavery - to be incredibly distasteful. The whole book was cringy in how it dealt with this topic. Mainly it was that it really didn’t deal with it at all, just used as a flimsy and poorly drawn backdrop.
I guess another thing I really disliked was how there was a super interesting and sympathetic character introduced in a short story before the book (Hain), who is then turned into a villain in this book. Oh sure, there are hints that she’s being forced to act as a henchman for the true villain, and then at the end her actions are described to have been the result of blackmail. But her actions were to directly participate in (and in fact help run!) a galactic slavery ring. I cannot believe for a second that she should be redeemed or forgiven for them. She clearly had plenty of freedom on the ship and opportunity to act against her “master”. If this character returns (and is trusted at all), I will be upset about it.
I also have a general dislike for the trope where magic or super powers exist in some percentage of humans, we just don’t know how to unlock or access it. This is such a fantasy cliche that I often have to forgive it or get over it to enjoy a book. It was just slightly more annoying to find it in science fiction. :P
The Druid Gene takes place in the Confluence Universe. This is another first contact story like Fluency, but it’s also so much more than that.
Darcy Eberhardt is a second year med student who has struggled throughout her life to understand her mixed heritage. Her grandmother Harriet often reminded her “You’ve got to be your own person, Darcy. Whatever that means to you. Be that.” Her boyfriend, Adam, is multiracial as well but it’s his Native American legacy that brings them on the hike where everything begins. He has heard stories of a place in the desert with strong geomagnetic energy and wants to share that with Darcy.
This is a journey of someone finding out who they really are, and how that person fits into the universe with it’s diverse creatures and preconceived ideas. Darcy finds she is capable of much more than she ever though possible.
I really enjoy this universe and the ideas around it. Jennifer is writing books that I’ve always wanted to read, science fiction with actual emotions and real character development!
Darcy Eberhardt is a second year med student who has struggled throughout her life to understand her mixed heritage. Her grandmother Harriet often reminded her “You’ve got to be your own person, Darcy. Whatever that means to you. Be that.” Her boyfriend, Adam, is multiracial as well but it’s his Native American legacy that brings them on the hike where everything begins. He has heard stories of a place in the desert with strong geomagnetic energy and wants to share that with Darcy.
This is a journey of someone finding out who they really are, and how that person fits into the universe with it’s diverse creatures and preconceived ideas. Darcy finds she is capable of much more than she ever though possible.
I really enjoy this universe and the ideas around it. Jennifer is writing books that I’ve always wanted to read, science fiction with actual emotions and real character development!