The Star Prince picks up Susan Grant’s futuristic world seven years after The Star King ends. Ian Hamilton has been picked by his alien stepfather to be Crown Prince for the Galaxy and has been sent on a mission to the frontier and Earth. He unknowingly hires a runaway Vash Princess as his sky pilot…
Susan Grant’s latest novel The Star Prince, sequel to last year’s The Star King, places likable and sympathetic characters in interesting intergalactic societies, with intriguing political plots. Despite a too-easy ending, this book kept me turning pages throughout. Tee’ah Dar is a daughter of one of the founding Vash Nadah families, and as such, is…
Miles Vorkosigan is an adventurer and a spy, a slightly crazy con artist, a quick-thinker and a fast-talker. He is a military genius with a gift for personnel and a miraculous talent for pulling rabbits out of hats at the last possible moment. His personality is so compelling that it almost makes people forget that…
As I read One Perfect Mate I kept trying to think what it reminded me of. A novel that’s a cross between a mail-order bride romance and Logan’s Run doesn’t come my way very often, and yet I had that nagging feeling. By book’s end I realized where the feeling was coming from. The protagonists…
In the 1980s, Lee and Miller published three novels (unread by me) set in the Liaden Universe. Del Rey dropped the series, but the novels have been re-published by Meisha Merlin, along with Pilots Choice, which contains two previously-unpublished adventures in the series. They are of the sub-genre known as “space opera,” but to me…
Heart of a Warrior is the long-awaited sequel to Warrior’s Woman and Keeper of the Heart. Considering that KOTH was published nearly a decade ago, it is amazing how seamlessly this book picks up the narrative, and while it stands alone, it was also a delight to catch up with some favorite characters. The hero…
Ritual of Proof features a sheltered but willful young virgin, an inescapable arranged marriage and an evil villain hell-bent on destroying the couple’s blossoming rapture. Is that a snore I hear? So, you think you’ve read this story a few hundred times already? Why would you even consider paying hardcover price for this tired old…
As in The Veiled Web, author Asaro once again delves into a future where artificial intelligence is a reality with all the moral and ethical dilemmas it brings. Dr. Megan O’Flannery is an expert in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly where androids are concerned. When MindSim offers her the chance to head the team…
In Susan Grant’s The Star King, Air Force fighter pilot Jasmine Boswell is shot from the sky over Saudi Arabia and plunged into a dreamscape environment with a mysterious man who reaches out and touches her very soul. Meeting him 20 years later brings surprises that take Jasmine from the desert of Arizona to the…
The Star King, Susan Grant’s second novel, proves that her first terrific romance, Once a Pirate, was no fluke. This is an author who writes romantic and exciting books that conjure up exotic locales and peoples. Grant is equally at home creating an advanced civilization light years away as she was conjuring up a pirate’s…
End of content
End of content