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Benedict Jacka plots like no other author I've read. The details and world building are realistic and stay within bounds. They are doled out slowly, building a plot that is so intricate, I can read the book two or three times and learn things I missed. The characters are always what grabs me. I have to care and Jacka has created a great star in Stephen Oakwood. Stephen doesn't have much, but he cares about his cat and his friends. It's very much an "outside looking in" at the world of the wealthy, but Stephen is less interested in wealth and more interested in surviving his own way. Stephen isn't terribly interested in the rules. There's more than one mystery to be solved in this series. I love the family nuances and all the fun to come.
The super-rich control everything—including magic—in this thrilling and brilliant, contemporary fantasy from the author of the Alex Verus novels.
The wealthy seem to exist in a different, glittering world from the rest of us. Almost as if by . . . magic.
Stephen Oakwood is a young man on the edge of this hidden world. He has talent and potential, but turning that potential into magical power takes money, opportunity, and training. All Stephen has is a minimum wage job and a cat.
But when a chance encounter with a member of House Ashford gets him noticed by the wrong…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Crudrat is my very favorite Gail Carriger book. It has everything I look for in a space opera: a downtrodden, stubborn main fighting to survive, excellent and heartwarming sidekicks, danger, a seemingly insurmountable problem to be solved and an action-packed plot. Maura has to work incredibly hard to create her place in life and discover that she's worth something after all. It's billed as YA, but it's not an angsty teenage book. No, this works for all ages because Maura has real problems to solve, ones that were easy to emphasize with.
Maura is doomed to starve. Her space station has no further use for her.
New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger brings you a fast-paced young adult scifi adventure featuring a capable heroine, her adorable pet, and the alien they accidentally rescue.
Abandoned
Outcast
Crudrat
With only her crud-eating murmel and a fuzzy alien stranger to help, Maura must find a way to survive, before they catch her and blow what’s left of her life into space.
In the far future, on a space-port the size of a city, crudrats scrape out a meager living cleaning the great machines that…
