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The Colour of Blood #3
Acolyte Dawn
What if humans could live forever?
After his release from prison, Saule embarks on a quest to find an old friend and reintegrate into everyday life. But like many synthetics, he faces a society that favours humans, struggling against their discrimination and mistrust towards his kind.
During his efforts to rebuild his life, Saule discovers that he’s become the latest target of an experimental technology aimed at reducing the synthetic population on The Ring. With time running out, he reluctantly teams up with a private investigator to expose the conspiracy threatening synthetics, hoping to save his life and reconnect with his lost friend.
But as they unravel a web of deceit, they uncover implications far more dangerous than they imagined – implications that Saule can potentially use to his advantage.
After his release from prison, Saule embarks on a quest to find an old friend and reintegrate into everyday life. But like many synthetics, he faces a society that favours humans, struggling against their discrimination and mistrust towards his kind.
During his efforts to rebuild his life, Saule discovers that he’s become the latest target of an experimental technology aimed at reducing the synthetic population on The Ring. With time running out, he reluctantly teams up with a private investigator to expose the conspiracy threatening synthetics, hoping to save his life and reconnect with his lost friend.
But as they unravel a web of deceit, they uncover implications far more dangerous than they imagined – implications that Saule can potentially use to his advantage.
407 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 22, 2024
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October 10, 2024
This series only gets better as it goes along, taking the crumbling technoir investigations and adding in so much more as we delves into the future world of The Ring. There aren't many modern sci-fi thrillers that ask the question "what is it to be human", let alone page-turning indie releases. Like the rest of the series, it's only one chapter of the bigger picture story, but OH MY STARS does the twist at the end feel like a cliffhanger. You'll be gnawing your nails waiting to see just what could happen next...
In this book we mainly follow Saule, a synthetic humanoid who has just been released from prison, Quinn the maverick police officer hungry for promotion, and Florence in sort-of PI hired by a mystery employer to find out the truth behind a recent spate of synthetic deaths. Deaths ruled "natural" by the police, though Quinn disagrees. Deaths of synthetics freshly out of prison. Synthetics just like Saule...
The plot is satisfyingly complex while being easy enough for a casual sci-fi fan to follow. There's action, emotion, and twists you won't see coming. Some scenes are set either in the distant past (Saule is over 500 years old after all), others just ahead of where the main story takes place, which add such creepy foreshadowing of events you'll be turning those pages non-stop. I absolutely love how the plot is woven from strands laid down previously, transitioning seamlessly from old characters to new. With cameo appearances from those characters we've come to know from previous books , and a hint of romantic tension hidden amidst the mega mystery and philosophical musings, it really has it all.
If you liked previous books in the series, you'll like this one. If you haven't started the series; why not? Intelligent sci-fi written like a pro doesn't come along every aeon.
In this book we mainly follow Saule, a synthetic humanoid who has just been released from prison, Quinn the maverick police officer hungry for promotion, and Florence in sort-of PI hired by a mystery employer to find out the truth behind a recent spate of synthetic deaths. Deaths ruled "natural" by the police, though Quinn disagrees. Deaths of synthetics freshly out of prison. Synthetics just like Saule...
The plot is satisfyingly complex while being easy enough for a casual sci-fi fan to follow. There's action, emotion, and twists you won't see coming. Some scenes are set either in the distant past (Saule is over 500 years old after all), others just ahead of where the main story takes place, which add such creepy foreshadowing of events you'll be turning those pages non-stop. I absolutely love how the plot is woven from strands laid down previously, transitioning seamlessly from old characters to new. With cameo appearances from those characters we've come to know from previous books , and a hint of romantic tension hidden amidst the mega mystery and philosophical musings, it really has it all.
If you liked previous books in the series, you'll like this one. If you haven't started the series; why not? Intelligent sci-fi written like a pro doesn't come along every aeon.
October 14, 2024
My favourite in the series so far. Perfect pace. Characters, story, twists, everything was incredible. I literally could not put it down. I absolutely LOVED this.
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