Waking a sleeping giant is never a good thing, right?
Now that Roslyn Chambers is Mage-Captain, with the new cruiser Thorn under her command, she’s chasing the stolen twin to her own ship, the Rose, under command of a man named Kay. It’s peopled by a group of baddies whose objective is to find the originators of the eugenics program that created the people of Mars, and bring them back.
The Mars Protectorate isn’t ready for that.
However, we readers are actually ahead of the Thorn, with the Rose as they achieve their objective and locate the Reezh. I’m not sure why Kay & Co is taking up so much bandwidth in the book, so far (one third finished) more time than Roslyn and her quest to find and stop the Rose. I’m not enjoying the chapters. Maybe because I feel a sense of loyalty to Roslyn and the Protectorate.
At the end of the book, in a see the reasoning, particularly in light of the last line of the book.
I can still say I didn’t enjoy this book as much as the rest, but it was as well written, plotted and peopled as the rest of the series. Stewart is taking his saga in somewhat of a new direction, so I’m going to allow him leeway in how he wants to present it.