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The year is 3,550.
Fifteen hundred years ago, Earth became a very dark place to live. A cabal of evil men was attempting to make the population into Serfs ruled over by the cabal.
Five families decided to leave Earth and find a distant planet to begin again. A group of pioneers traveled to Pleione in the Pleiades star cluster, but the original intention of a utopia soon disintegrated into a world not much better than Earth. The basis of the new system is run like the ancient Roman Republic with a strict caste system. Fifteen hundred years later, the pioneering five families rule the planet with an iron grip.
This is the world in which Jericho Goldsmith, a man from one of the five elite families, and Tenzin Fenn, a Serf sold into slavery by his family, meet and fall in love. But can the two men forge a loving relationship and remain together when they come from such disparate backgrounds and everyone is against them?
Fifteen hundred years ago, Earth became a very dark place to live. A cabal of evil men was attempting to make the population into Serfs ruled over by the cabal.
Five families decided to leave Earth and find a distant planet to begin again. A group of pioneers traveled to Pleione in the Pleiades star cluster, but the original intention of a utopia soon disintegrated into a world not much better than Earth. The basis of the new system is run like the ancient Roman Republic with a strict caste system. Fifteen hundred years later, the pioneering five families rule the planet with an iron grip.
This is the world in which Jericho Goldsmith, a man from one of the five elite families, and Tenzin Fenn, a Serf sold into slavery by his family, meet and fall in love. But can the two men forge a loving relationship and remain together when they come from such disparate backgrounds and everyone is against them?
310 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 30, 2024
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April 8, 2024
A Joyfully Jay review.
2.75 stars
For this review, I’m going to start with the good things first. The world building in this book is actually very well done. Pleione, the planet Tenzin and Jericho live on, is made up of colonists who fled Earth to come to a new world that they terraformed and settled using a Roman-adjacent caste system, which has Senators at the top and serfs and slaves at the bottom. All of the societal issues, the political power dynamics, and the rivalries between the various houses plays out smoothly, and much of that can be attributed to the writing, which is clean and clear.
It is just this relationship that really didn’t work for me. Jericho was wrapped in a red flag from start to finish. I’ll keep an eye on this author and maybe try a future work, but I cannot recommend this one in particular.
Read Elizabeth’s review in its entirety here.
2.75 stars
For this review, I’m going to start with the good things first. The world building in this book is actually very well done. Pleione, the planet Tenzin and Jericho live on, is made up of colonists who fled Earth to come to a new world that they terraformed and settled using a Roman-adjacent caste system, which has Senators at the top and serfs and slaves at the bottom. All of the societal issues, the political power dynamics, and the rivalries between the various houses plays out smoothly, and much of that can be attributed to the writing, which is clean and clear.
It is just this relationship that really didn’t work for me. Jericho was wrapped in a red flag from start to finish. I’ll keep an eye on this author and maybe try a future work, but I cannot recommend this one in particular.
Read Elizabeth’s review in its entirety here.
January 20, 2025
The ending was a bit anticlimactic, and there were some parts that didn't make sense, but I really enjoyed reading it!
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