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The Atlantis Chronicles #2
A Sea of Worlds
Boy, you remember girl. You thought you’d lost her. You were wrong.
Stranded in space after losing the girl he cares about, Captain Omen finds he has more unaccounted-for variables to deal with than he bargained for, including the fact that Xanorra is actually alive and reunited with her family. How does he know? Because they came back to capture his ship in the name of the Space Exploration Alliance. Naturally.
Girl, you remember boy. You thought you’d lost your chance to save him. Were you wrong?
It wasn’t exactly the reunion Xanorra Nepier wanted with the captain of the Atlantis, but she is determined to make the most of this second chance. However, things don’t exactly go according to plan and they find themselves trapped on a secret pirate port where they have to play by a different set of rules. Easier said than done.
Joined by new and old allies, Captain and Xan must work together to repair the Atlantis and continue their journeys home. But obstacles lurk around every corner, as do the big questions: What do they really want, and what are they willing to do to get it? Should they stay on the paths set out for them, or is it time to chart a new course together?
Book 2 of The Atlantis Chronicles continues the adventures of Captain and Xanorra as they navigate the complexities of family, the consequences of freedom, and the call of their own hearts.
Stranded in space after losing the girl he cares about, Captain Omen finds he has more unaccounted-for variables to deal with than he bargained for, including the fact that Xanorra is actually alive and reunited with her family. How does he know? Because they came back to capture his ship in the name of the Space Exploration Alliance. Naturally.
Girl, you remember boy. You thought you’d lost your chance to save him. Were you wrong?
It wasn’t exactly the reunion Xanorra Nepier wanted with the captain of the Atlantis, but she is determined to make the most of this second chance. However, things don’t exactly go according to plan and they find themselves trapped on a secret pirate port where they have to play by a different set of rules. Easier said than done.
Joined by new and old allies, Captain and Xan must work together to repair the Atlantis and continue their journeys home. But obstacles lurk around every corner, as do the big questions: What do they really want, and what are they willing to do to get it? Should they stay on the paths set out for them, or is it time to chart a new course together?
Book 2 of The Atlantis Chronicles continues the adventures of Captain and Xanorra as they navigate the complexities of family, the consequences of freedom, and the call of their own hearts.
467 pages, Paperback
Published November 15, 2024
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November 13, 2024
I LOVED this book! (Even more than the first one in the series!)
Captain is the kind of character you can’t help but root for, and he’s been through so much in this book… The author kept me on the edge of my seat, eagerly turning pages!
My only complaint is that I wish it had a little bit more romance. But I loved the whole dynamic with the new characters, and how they’re slowly growing into a friend group.
I really can’t wait for the next book in the series! And I’m not even a big sci-fi fan; I’m just really invested in Captain’s story. (The boy REALLY deserves a happy ending. 😁)
Captain is the kind of character you can’t help but root for, and he’s been through so much in this book… The author kept me on the edge of my seat, eagerly turning pages!
My only complaint is that I wish it had a little bit more romance. But I loved the whole dynamic with the new characters, and how they’re slowly growing into a friend group.
I really can’t wait for the next book in the series! And I’m not even a big sci-fi fan; I’m just really invested in Captain’s story. (The boy REALLY deserves a happy ending. 😁)
November 22, 2024
An incredibly satisfying sequel where we continue to follow our characters, resolve some questions, and definitely have new ones. I love that this continued the vein and voice of the previous book but opened a whole new can of worms that kept the plot moving quickly. Also, the bigger parts of the plot weren’t glossed over, it felt realistic even though we are in space in the far future. The politics and the games played all felt far too familiar. Loving the romance still boiling and going strong. I’m rooting for two of the main couples so hard. Also! Some huge reveals!
January 23, 2025
3.75⭐
Ok so…it’s a good book, but not the second book that the first deserved…
I loved the change of scenery, I loved the hints at further developments regarding Akade (dedicated backstory book when?), the discoveries about the SEA (albeit predictable) and the romance between Xan and Captain. I’m sure Xanorra’s line “I’m sure you didn’t [expect to see me], you frigid bitch” will remain one of my favourite lines for a while, and I’m sure that once this series is over I’m hopelessly going to daydream about a follow-up series and a prequel about Akade (pretty please?).
However…and it pains me to say…there were some issues.
Captain is obviously not mentally stable, especially after what happened and thinks has happened in the last book, but especially because he’s at a watershed: he’s understood that the AI that raised him and that he relied on was faulty, and he was starting to understand the real problem, which Xanorra had understood immediately, being an outside observer of the situation, and namely that what was done to him was…mental. But this happened in the first book. In the second book…Captain doesn’t follow up to the main issue of having an abusive family behind him that planned his whole life and removed all agency and choice from him and that intended to manipulate him his whole life. He instead focuses on the one thing that was predictable in it’s malfunctioning, the only thing that cannot, unlike humans, be taken accountable for its actions and that essentially cannot ‘grow’: the AI that raised him. One could say that it’s because it was the only ‘family’ that he came to know, but the problem is that everyone in this book makes the same mistake, which led me to think that it wasn’t a problem of the characters themselves, it was a problem of how they were written. Xanorra, so repulsed by what the Omens had done to Captain, nauseated by the birthday videos and by the cynical mindset of the Omens, so intent on making Captain understand that what they’d done to him is wrong, loses all her fighting spirit and good intentions, and even agrees with Captain when he says he’s failed his family, that he’s the cause of the problem. She tells him to put himself in his mother’s shoes, to do what she asks because otherwise she’ll loose her mind if she has to grow old without her family, and even though she says it because Captain would suffer from it as well, she never brings up how unfair it is that he even has to put himself in her shoes at all. He wouldn’t have to care about her distress if it weren’t for the fact that she and her family agreed to use him as a lab rat. But nobody mentions that outside of the first book, and it’s exactly the fucked up backstory of how Captain is in his predicament at all that made the story of An Ocean of Stars so sad and compelling, and original as well. Where has the human aspect that made me love the first book so much, gone?
And I hated how Anippe and her husband were made to look like nice and understanding people. They’re still the same people that managed to be abusive to him without even being physically there to do it. It’s another level of fucked up that just gets forgotten for some reason that I cannot understand. Why is Dr. Omen made to be such a caricature of a bad person while the people that gave in to his whims are forgiven? Why is the fact that Anippe keeps manipulating him, probably not even on purpose, so overlooked? She pities him, she tortures him with “what ifs”, acts like she cares about him, she is insensitive to what he went through all that time and she never, not once apologises for what they did to him. Nobody does. And the fact that she had chosen to be a full time mother to her children just makes it worse, because she wasn’t able to care about one more child.
There were some minor issues as well, like the clumsiness of the only two times Latin is mentioned: you can’t shout orders in Latin on a spaceship because you wouldn’t have the words for it since Latin is a dead language, and “ad nauseum” doesn’t exist, it’s “ad nauseam”. Also, the fact that the SEA doesn’t implement new technology and knowledge just because of their origin was really dumb, since it could have simply done what it had done for the pardon: simply lie about it and pass it off as theirs.
As I said though, I still think it’s a good book in itself: it has great pacing, great stakes, great tension. But in the context of being a second book, I feel like it doesn’t do justice to the first one. Which is why I’m expecting the third book to be the greatest piece of literature known to man (I’m joking of course); I really want to see Captain’s mental, and let’s be honest, physical health get the improvement they deserve, I want him to get the family he deserves, I want Xan and Quin to be able to put their talents to use, I want to see my criticism of this second book be silenced as I see Captain and Xan discuss about what he went through.
(And Akade’s backstory)
I received an eARC of the book from the author and this represents my honest opinion
Ok so…it’s a good book, but not the second book that the first deserved…
I loved the change of scenery, I loved the hints at further developments regarding Akade (dedicated backstory book when?), the discoveries about the SEA (albeit predictable) and the romance between Xan and Captain. I’m sure Xanorra’s line “I’m sure you didn’t [expect to see me], you frigid bitch” will remain one of my favourite lines for a while, and I’m sure that once this series is over I’m hopelessly going to daydream about a follow-up series and a prequel about Akade (pretty please?).
However…and it pains me to say…there were some issues.
Captain is obviously not mentally stable, especially after what happened and thinks has happened in the last book, but especially because he’s at a watershed: he’s understood that the AI that raised him and that he relied on was faulty, and he was starting to understand the real problem, which Xanorra had understood immediately, being an outside observer of the situation, and namely that what was done to him was…mental. But this happened in the first book. In the second book…Captain doesn’t follow up to the main issue of having an abusive family behind him that planned his whole life and removed all agency and choice from him and that intended to manipulate him his whole life. He instead focuses on the one thing that was predictable in it’s malfunctioning, the only thing that cannot, unlike humans, be taken accountable for its actions and that essentially cannot ‘grow’: the AI that raised him. One could say that it’s because it was the only ‘family’ that he came to know, but the problem is that everyone in this book makes the same mistake, which led me to think that it wasn’t a problem of the characters themselves, it was a problem of how they were written. Xanorra, so repulsed by what the Omens had done to Captain, nauseated by the birthday videos and by the cynical mindset of the Omens, so intent on making Captain understand that what they’d done to him is wrong, loses all her fighting spirit and good intentions, and even agrees with Captain when he says he’s failed his family, that he’s the cause of the problem. She tells him to put himself in his mother’s shoes, to do what she asks because otherwise she’ll loose her mind if she has to grow old without her family, and even though she says it because Captain would suffer from it as well, she never brings up how unfair it is that he even has to put himself in her shoes at all. He wouldn’t have to care about her distress if it weren’t for the fact that she and her family agreed to use him as a lab rat. But nobody mentions that outside of the first book, and it’s exactly the fucked up backstory of how Captain is in his predicament at all that made the story of An Ocean of Stars so sad and compelling, and original as well. Where has the human aspect that made me love the first book so much, gone?
And I hated how Anippe and her husband were made to look like nice and understanding people. They’re still the same people that managed to be abusive to him without even being physically there to do it. It’s another level of fucked up that just gets forgotten for some reason that I cannot understand. Why is Dr. Omen made to be such a caricature of a bad person while the people that gave in to his whims are forgiven? Why is the fact that Anippe keeps manipulating him, probably not even on purpose, so overlooked? She pities him, she tortures him with “what ifs”, acts like she cares about him, she is insensitive to what he went through all that time and she never, not once apologises for what they did to him. Nobody does. And the fact that she had chosen to be a full time mother to her children just makes it worse, because she wasn’t able to care about one more child.
There were some minor issues as well, like the clumsiness of the only two times Latin is mentioned: you can’t shout orders in Latin on a spaceship because you wouldn’t have the words for it since Latin is a dead language, and “ad nauseum” doesn’t exist, it’s “ad nauseam”. Also, the fact that the SEA doesn’t implement new technology and knowledge just because of their origin was really dumb, since it could have simply done what it had done for the pardon: simply lie about it and pass it off as theirs.
As I said though, I still think it’s a good book in itself: it has great pacing, great stakes, great tension. But in the context of being a second book, I feel like it doesn’t do justice to the first one. Which is why I’m expecting the third book to be the greatest piece of literature known to man (I’m joking of course); I really want to see Captain’s mental, and let’s be honest, physical health get the improvement they deserve, I want him to get the family he deserves, I want Xan and Quin to be able to put their talents to use, I want to see my criticism of this second book be silenced as I see Captain and Xan discuss about what he went through.
(And Akade’s backstory)
I received an eARC of the book from the author and this represents my honest opinion
November 9, 2024
I received an A.R.C. of A Sea of Worlds by Becca Mionis in exchange for an honest review.
I’ve read the first book in this series, An Ocean of Stars, which I also gave 5 stars. If at all possible A Sea of Worlds is even better! The writing is excellent and extremely engrossing. A few moments had me on the edge of my seat!
I really enjoyed the character development and the stark contrast between Captain and Xan. Opposites attract as they say, and these two are that. But they work and you can’t help but root for them.
There is humor, romance, space pirates, a psychotic AI, what more could you ask for? If you enjoy a good space opera, I highly recommend this series!
I’ve read the first book in this series, An Ocean of Stars, which I also gave 5 stars. If at all possible A Sea of Worlds is even better! The writing is excellent and extremely engrossing. A few moments had me on the edge of my seat!
I really enjoyed the character development and the stark contrast between Captain and Xan. Opposites attract as they say, and these two are that. But they work and you can’t help but root for them.
There is humor, romance, space pirates, a psychotic AI, what more could you ask for? If you enjoy a good space opera, I highly recommend this series!
November 2, 2024
It's epic,just epic.
November 25, 2024
This fantastic second book fully keeps pace with the brilliance of the first! Both Xan and Captain are so well written (but with distinct POVs) and the side characters are fantastic. The space and sci fi elements are a blast and the rising stakes really kept me turning the pages. Becca balances the fun and sweet romance of the MCs, so perfectly opposed in their goals and situations, with the increasingly nefarious mystery of the SEA. She also drops some big truths and twists on her unsuspecting characters (and readers) along the way. I cannot recommend this series enough for fans of fantasy/sci fi, witty prose, and exciting space odysseys!
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