It’s always nice to get pleasant surprises (unlike the other kind!), and that’s indeed what I got when I checked out Red Adept’s Kindle Book Review Blog to see how her review of In Her Name: Empire fared. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it fared pretty darn well!
Empire is the first of the three books contained in the original omnibus version of In Her Name, and begins the story of Reza Gard and his trials and tribulations in living between the human Confederation and the alien Kreelan Empire.
Red Adept (a.k.a. Lynn) happened to buy my book and let me know that she would be reviewing it. If you look at her reviews, she doesn’t hand out stars like candy. Clearly, like any reviewer, she has her likes and dislikes, but Empire fortunately fell deep into the “like” category. Here’s an excerpt from her review:
This is one of the hardest types of reviews for me to write. It’s much easier to write a review of a “good, mediocre, or bad” book. It’s not that I enjoy being so critical, just that it’s easier to explain flaws than it is to explain why a book has achieved ‘greatness’. I can sit here and type all of the words: compelling, interesting, wonderful, intriguing, etc., but none of them do it justice. They don’t really explain how a book speaks to the reader, how it draws the reader in and echoes in the mind long after it is finished.
This book grabs the reader with the opening scene and rarely relaxes its grip. With a wonderful mix of science fiction and fantasy, the plot is vastly different from most science fiction books I have read. Sure, you have your hero, your war, your deadly aliens. However, this story takes you in a different direction.
So, check out her review and the reader reviews on Amazon and see if Empire appeals to you – it may just open up an entirely new universe of entertainment!
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