How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.
The Carryx—part empire, part hive—have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin.
Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research …
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.
The Carryx—part empire, part hive—have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin.
Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human population and taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept along with them.
They are dropped in the middle of a struggle they barely understand, set in a competition against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure. Only Dafyd and a handful of his companions see past the Darwinian contest to the deeper game that they must play to survive: learning to understand—and manipulate—the Carryx themselves.
With a noble but suicidal human rebellion on one hand and strange and murderous enemies on the other, the team pays a terrible price to become the trusted servants of their new rulers.
Dafyd Alkhor is a simple man swept up in events that are beyond his control and more vast than his imagination. He will become the champion of humanity and its betrayer, the most hated man in history and the guardian of his people.
I did enjoy the concepts introduced so far. I found it a bit slow and dragged at times. Kinda fine with that assuming we're setting the scene for an entire series.
Else is cool, a glimpse of where the story might be going and we're left wondering about who the hidden allies might be.
I did enjoy the tension / horror but I felt the world was a bit flat. Will definitely continue this series (also is it just me or is there a lack of new space operas these days?)
looks like this is a worthy successor to The Expanse
Keine Bewertung
Started off a bit slow, thinking this is no Expanse and let the first couple of chapters sit for a while, but then it gets going and I cranked through it in a couple of days, even though it's not a short book (it is Expanse-length). And as with the Expanse, I'm hooked on this series now, ready for the next volume.
