Is there going to be a sequel World building, Im a sucker for it, wish I could do it, and will read anything that contains it, The farther removed from our reality a new world in fiction is, the more intrigued I am, It takes talent, focus, and a level of imagination few possess, but its the ultimate in an entertaining readers getaway, Writers Soem and Moraine have built a world full of mystique, technology, snarky ship captains my favorite! and loyalty as well as a healthy dose of humanity.
I wont lie this book is dense, It took me three weeks to read, just to make sure I knew where it was going, One suggestion I will make is that theres a Glossary of terms at the end, If you pick up this title, read the Glossary first, I didnt, and while eventually I figured out that Khara was a curse and other things unfamiliar to my own little corner of Earth, I could have saved myself some frustration.
In Adam Yugas world, perfection is king, and the first thing enhanced is the body itself, Generations of enhancements built on enhancements have engineered a near perfect race so everybody thinks, The slow slide of disintegration we see beginning with Adam is disconcerting, and its no wonder he resorts to desperate measures to survive, Everything hes ever known is ripped away from him nearly the minute hes seen as flawed,
Lochlan insert a bunch of names here dBideshi is used to desperation, to living on the edge of hedonism, doing whats fun, what feels good, and what generally occurs to him when it occurs.
Hes a free spirit who bucks the systemany system, but particularly the Protectorate, given their clashes in the pastand flouts authority at every chance, So when a stumbling, fleeing Adam Yuga crosses his path with a team of whitesuited Protectorate officials hot on his heels, Lochlan doesnt think, He just grabs, saving Adam for the time being,
The dance between Adam and Lochlan was a slow build, one that had me laughing at Lochlans sharp barbs, his sardonic resistance to Adams compelling innocence, and I was all meltygooey inside when finally, Lochlan admitted to feeling more than the good time romps he was known for.
I sighed with contentment when Adam finally let himself feel worthy of someones feelings for him, that he deserved the attention he got, and that hed really, once and for all, found a place to call home.
The secondary characters are rich and unique, with Kae and Leila, two friends of Lochlans and experienced warriors within the Bideshi, Adisa, the homeship leader, and Ixchel, the mysterious blind seer whocanseewithouteyes standing at Adisas right hand, Ying the healer, and so many more.
They show Adam what family truly means, how belonging is as important as having a home, and loyalty has nothing to do with ones roots,
If it werent for the length of time it took me to finally immerse in this story, I would have given it an A rating.
As it was, I got tobefore I felt like I had any kind of understanding of what was going on, but I kept going, It felt worth it to continue, and Im so glad I did, because it was epic, adventurous, gutchurning, sweetly romantic, and in general full of everything I love in a tale like this: excitement, love, the search for and defense of fundamental rights, and a conclusion so big, so wild, that I had to stop biting my lip for fear of drawing blood.
If youre looking for a good long escape from everyday life, pick up Line and Orbit, Well worth the effort,
ed by: Anita
I can't fault this spectacular m/m epic SciFi story, It has everything you could possibly want from a book of its type, Fantastic world building, space opera style story lines with evil corporations and nomadic space tribes, epic space battles, mysticism, quirky characters, massive space ships big enough to be carrying mini worlds, complete with forests and wildlife and of course in this case a m/m element in which you get the pairing of Lochlan, a cocky space fighter/gypsy and Adam, a genetically perfect corporate imperialist, who starts the story's as a rising star amongst its ranks until a genetic flaw is discovered and practically overnight he loses his job,his home and almost when a strange illness takes over him his life! Enemies until fate brings them together, Lock and Adam unite to save not only one of their lives but also to bring down the protectorate that is holding a very dark secret that they will fight to the death to conceal.
This is a case of more story than sex but the chemistry and tension between the MC's is definitely present in their budding romance, so you won't be disappointed.
Right from the word go I was drawn into this fascinating tale and of course at the beginning I couldn't help making comparisons to many of the popular SciFi cult classics of TV and the big screen but this is so well plotted, thought out and written that to be honest those comparisons once made, started to recede as the worlds of the Bideshi and the Terran protectorates took on a life of their own and it was purely their story that kept me on pins till the very end!
I could wax on about this in loads of detail but I always think that when books are as great as this, its just a delight discovering it all firsthand.
. . So all I can say is settle down, buckle up and blast off into space with these guys because you'll feel like you're there with them, through thick and thin and I truly hope you enjoy the trip as much as I did.
worthy and a big fat keeper! Loved it, Gorgeous.
Scifi so diverting as to give one a sense of what it may be like to be raptured: snatchedup, out of your life and out of your clothes, tooaccording to the baptists under whose rhapsodies I grew up, up into the heavens, into a new life very, very far removed from the one you left behind.
It was like that,
Reading this book,
For a day and a half I was not in my own life, except when I put the tablet down to sleepand even then, not all my dreams were my own.
I saw the shape of this book somewhere in the first thirdthe inevitable pressure towards where the story must endand when I arrived there I found it no less enthralling for being foreshadowed.
A lovely metaphor, that title, Both holy and profane, as is true of many ideas in our world todaythough mostly I only know the Christian ones,
Jesus Christ, what a story!
Line and Orbit!
A curse,
Line and Orbit,
A benediction,
And on such a scale, this bookbut still, as all stories are, reallyabout people, It follows many of them for a little bit, and two for a lot and as all good scifias all good storiesit is both a mirror and a window, so that you are left musing as much about your own fate as the fate of the heroes you've come to love, and the villains you've come to pity.
I didn't quite follow the logic of the central conceitthe faintly granola ethos behind pretty much the entire plotand have yet to come across a convincing argument against the idea this book appears to be opposed tobut all the same:
Four, and recommended.
.stars. Quality scifi novel, m/m is a secondary thread, Reminded me of 'Avatar' in the excellent worldbuilding and mystic language,
Genetically engineered Adam Yuga was rapidly climbing the ladder of 'The Protectorate' until he is found to have an incurable illness, Lochlan D'Bedeshi rescues him and takes him back to his people who wander the in enormous organic spacecraft,
'The entire circle turned as Lochlan broke through their ranks and shoved himself into the center, His eyes were wide, dreadlocks flying, and Adam felt a surge of warmth go through him, Lochlan. Cocky bastard Lochlan, always making a show of not caring and the mask had slipped, '.
It's a very imaginative story on the fence between fantasy and science fiction with some important
underlying themes, You get spacefaring nations with space ships so big that they have whole forests inside, seers that use nanobots to read digital pads, perfected genetics vs, leaving it all to Mother Nature and a bunch of likeable heroes,
It didn't quite pull through with the tension and promised grand finale, though, Seeing that it is the author's first novel I'm looking forward to more from them, :.rounded down to.
The imperialist Terran Protectorate is committed to protecting their perfect world filled with their perfect, genetically enhanced populace, The Bideshi are nomadic warriors long shunned by the Protectorate, When the Terran Protectorate discovers a genetic abnormality in one of its rising young, Adam Yuga, they immediately label him an outcast and toss him aside.
Stripped of wealth and position and stricken with a mysterious, worsening illness, Adam resorts to stealing credits to survive, Moments from capture by the Protectorate, help arrives in the form of Lochlan, a brash, cocksure Bideshi fighter, With and through the Bideshi, Adam learns that his illness hides a terrible secret, one that the Protectorate will stop at nothing to conceal, As the Protectorate closes in on him and declares war on the Bideshi, Adam must find the strength to heal and somehow close a centuriesold rift,
This was a fullbodied story and the world building was incredible, It was long but not overly so considering the complexity of the plot, the number of characters, and the various worlds the protagonists visit, I think this book will appeal most to scifi fans,
I liked all the characters and really enjoyed learning things as Adam stumbled along, Lochlan took some getting used to at first but by the end I loved him, My feelings for Adam were the opposite: I immediately fell in love with him but by the end I felt less than warm or neutral towards him.
The ending was a little abrupt IMHO and I was disappointed that .
Bottom line: an engaging and entertaining scifi M/M tale that was light on the M/M, heavy on the scifi, and thoroughly enjoyable, .
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