Don't you just love short stories? All the emotion and action of a full novel, condensed down into something you can read in half an hour... I know I do!
Plus, who can turn down a pretty cover like this one?
I am grateful to have received my copy of this book through the review portal I joined (you can find out more/join HERE). I may be getting a little carried away with requesting and reading books, when I still have over 200 unread books on my ereader... never mind!
Let me introduce this book, and then we can delve into my review!
In another time, in a galaxy on the far side of another universe, you can find love between the stars.
Yeva Hawthorne is a bounty hunter looking to fill a bank account with 20 million credits to repay a debt.
Tobias Hawk is also a bounty hunter and he is going after money to fund a secret he has kept for over a decade.
They are going after the same bounty and things are about to get tricky.
My Review!
Yeva Hawthorne is a bounty hunter with a debt to pay. She takes on jobs to build up the credits she needs to finally free herself of the debt. When one comes to her attention, an artefact hunt for a sum of credits much too high for a normal artefact hunt, she is drawn to the bounty. The bounty has been listed for six months, and presently, only one other person has claimed the bounty, and they have had that claim for over a month. The real mystery? The person who has claimed the bounty is none other than Tobias Hawk, the best bounty hunter in the galaxy.
When Yeva reaches the planet that the artefact is on, she checks the area for any signs of other ships, but finds nothing. If Tobias was really after the bounty, wouldn’t he be here? She lands on the strange, deserted planet, and sets about looking around. There is an old building, and that is about it. But, when Yeva approaches the building, she finds herself drawn into some kind of trance, and it is broken by Tobias Hunt, physically pulling her back into the present.
Tobias explains the situation to Yeva. He has been trapped on the planet for a month, his ship refuses to start in the atmosphere, and, now, neither will Yeva’s. There is something about the planet, something unfathomable. While on the planet, both Tobias and Yeva are incapable of lying, anything that comes out of their mouths is nothing but the truth. Vines keep growing over their grounded ships, trying to trap them, and there is a maze they must complete in order to collect the bounty, a maze that is constantly changing and giving them new puzzles to solve.
I loved the entire concept of two solo bounty hunters trapped together on the same planet, and going after the same artefact. They have no choice but to work together, and the more time they spend together, the less they can deny it – they like working together. They both have secrets, things they would rather keep to themselves, but with the workings of the planet, truths are spilled and they slowly find themselves not so concerned about being around each other.
I really liked the puzzle of the maze, and the ever changing things they have to figure out how to get past. It is difficult to talk too much about this book, as it is a short story, at only 56 pages, and I don’t want to give anything away. The puzzles, and the whole building itself, give this book a sense of mystery. Neither Yeva nor Tobias can figure out what runs the maze. It must be some kind of technology, but how old is it, and who put it there? Why is the bounty for the artefact so high, especially since the artefact itself seems to be fairly worthless? The questions seem to be endless, with no answers available to set things straight.
Again, I don’t want to spoil anything, but I adored the interactions between Tobias and Yeva, and where they led. The entire build up was fantastic and, with the help of their inability to lie, it was a delight to read about.
I read this book in one sitting. It was not difficult because of the length of the book, but I didn’t want to stop reading once I had started. I have not read (or watched) much science-fiction, but reading this definitely makes me want to consume more of this genre. If you want a quick, out of this world, read, this is one you should get. After all, what doesn’t sound amazing about finding love between the stars?
And done!
When I was writing this review, I had something in mind that I was going to write down here. That idea has flown away, never to be found again.
So, once again, just pretend I wrote something really profound.
That's all for now...
Bye!
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