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Red Rain #6.5
Laodicea
After reuniting with Cea on Mars, Ephesus realizes he finally has the freedom to pursue the woman he loves. He wastes no time in proposing, but Cea has reservations. But before she can give him an answer, mysterious malfunctions begin happening on base, and all the evidence points to sabotage. As the attacks get worse, Ephesus and Cea race to find the vandal before someone gets hurt. Will they be able to find the truth and save the station, or will Wing 74 drive them apart once again?
Laodicea is a companion story in the RED RAIN series, a fast-paced Christian sci-fi adventure that’s perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and LEFT BEHIND.
Laodicea is a companion story in the RED RAIN series, a fast-paced Christian sci-fi adventure that’s perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and LEFT BEHIND.
112 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 21, 2023
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Rachel Newhouse
42 books39 followersRachel Newhouse is an author, wife, secretary, and Sunday school teacher from Kansas City, Missouri. Her obsessions are sci-fi, dystopian, and kid lit. When she’s not writing, she’s cooking Asian food, growing chilis that are too spicy to eat, and watching wildly age-inappropriate shows like My Little Pony and Gravity Falls with her husband, Joe. She also really likes glitter. You’ve been warned.
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April 2, 2025I swear this book is 25,000 words of fanservice for the Ephesus fangirl club, and I'm not mad about it.
Some stuff catches on fire too, just to keep it spicy.
Some stuff catches on fire too, just to keep it spicy.
November 21, 2023
"Laodicea" is a breath of fresh air, or (to apply the metaphor its title makes obvious) is like a drink of cold water on a hot summer day, for me. The Red Rain series is firmly placed in the "dystopian" category of the science fiction genre, a category I normally go out of my way to avoid, but Mrs. Newhouse's writing has kept me hooked since Book 1 despite that ... and here we finally have a story that, while still in the same setting, is primarily and secondarily a romance and a mystery, with the dystopia functioning more as a "romantic obstacle" than a "ever-looming oppressor."
This story again features Mrs. Newhouse's trademark "can't-put-it-down" narrative voice, with yet another new tone (I'd say "adding another string to her bow", except how many strings can a bow have?)---I only wish that Ephesus's and Cea's point-of-view voices were more distinct (from each other, and from the "Philli" voice of the "main line" books).
This is Mrs. Newhouse's first multi-POV story since Peter's Angel, as well as her first story with an "on-screen" romanctic plot since Peter's Angel. The alternating perspective works very well with the plot of this book, both the "present day" action and events and the flashbacks (after Aurelius I thought Mrs. Newhouse had just about exactly hit the limit of how much mileage she could get out of the events of the original Red Rain before it became overdone, but this story shows there was plainly more light to shed on it), and this is exactly the sort of romance I love to read---the obstacles to the characters' relationship are primarily external, and any mutual misunderstandings or other "angst" between them is almost entirely "off screen" between their introduction and immediate-for-the-reader resolution.
In her "review" (as of this writing), and in a "Captain's Log" Patreon post, the author described this story as "25,000 words of fanservice for the Ephesus fangirl club." In that Patreon post, she also said that it was originally planned to be at most only half that long. But my one real complaint about this story is that it felt far too short, for reasons I have trouble pinning down. Even though the final scene brillaintly resolves all the main plot threads and seems to set up the next story, it still left me saying to myself, "That's it?"
Still, fans of the series will find "Laodicea" a delightful little story and a charming addition to the series. Recommended.
This is adapted and significantly condensed from a longer review on my blog. I received a "free" electronic copy of this story as a financial supporter on the author's Patreon.
This story again features Mrs. Newhouse's trademark "can't-put-it-down" narrative voice, with yet another new tone (I'd say "adding another string to her bow", except how many strings can a bow have?)---I only wish that Ephesus's and Cea's point-of-view voices were more distinct (from each other, and from the "Philli" voice of the "main line" books).
This is Mrs. Newhouse's first multi-POV story since Peter's Angel, as well as her first story with an "on-screen" romanctic plot since Peter's Angel. The alternating perspective works very well with the plot of this book, both the "present day" action and events and the flashbacks (after Aurelius I thought Mrs. Newhouse had just about exactly hit the limit of how much mileage she could get out of the events of the original Red Rain before it became overdone, but this story shows there was plainly more light to shed on it), and this is exactly the sort of romance I love to read---the obstacles to the characters' relationship are primarily external, and any mutual misunderstandings or other "angst" between them is almost entirely "off screen" between their introduction and immediate-for-the-reader resolution.
In her "review" (as of this writing), and in a "Captain's Log" Patreon post, the author described this story as "25,000 words of fanservice for the Ephesus fangirl club." In that Patreon post, she also said that it was originally planned to be at most only half that long. But my one real complaint about this story is that it felt far too short, for reasons I have trouble pinning down. Even though the final scene brillaintly resolves all the main plot threads and seems to set up the next story, it still left me saying to myself, "That's it?"
Still, fans of the series will find "Laodicea" a delightful little story and a charming addition to the series. Recommended.
This is adapted and significantly condensed from a longer review on my blog. I received a "free" electronic copy of this story as a financial supporter on the author's Patreon.
November 23, 2023
Sweet!
This is such a sweet story! The series has so far been sorely lacking in Ephesus, and I loved getting to get in his head and see the depth of his love for Cea. Their adventure is fun and playful with just the right amount of serious, and I wish I got to see more of it.
This is such a sweet story! The series has so far been sorely lacking in Ephesus, and I loved getting to get in his head and see the depth of his love for Cea. Their adventure is fun and playful with just the right amount of serious, and I wish I got to see more of it.
December 20, 2023
Laodicea Red Rain
I enjoyed the romance as it was unique to this particular book and very well written. It is a romance with sincerity and suitable for young people to read. This author has a wide range of expertise.
I enjoyed the romance as it was unique to this particular book and very well written. It is a romance with sincerity and suitable for young people to read. This author has a wide range of expertise.
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