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Snow
On a world so distant it will never be missed, so secret it will never be remembered... humanity struggles to survive.
Snow Taggart is dying. An incurable illness slowly tears her apart from the inside, leaving her weak and brittle, so when her home is attacked and the only person she loves brutally killed, she knows she'll need some help to protect those still alive. But when she signs up as a pilot for the faction responsible, with the intent of stealing a mech and finding her way home, she finds herself dealing with a little more than she bargained for as she's saddled with an energetic and seemingly childlike gunner.
Snow's first objective becomes to get rid of the walking liability... however, little does she know, this diminutive gunner will become far more than a burden to her, and the journey home will cost her far, far more than she was ever willing to pay... but perhaps there's still a little hope left to be found in the last days of a cold and hurt teenage girl.
Snow Taggart is dying. An incurable illness slowly tears her apart from the inside, leaving her weak and brittle, so when her home is attacked and the only person she loves brutally killed, she knows she'll need some help to protect those still alive. But when she signs up as a pilot for the faction responsible, with the intent of stealing a mech and finding her way home, she finds herself dealing with a little more than she bargained for as she's saddled with an energetic and seemingly childlike gunner.
Snow's first objective becomes to get rid of the walking liability... however, little does she know, this diminutive gunner will become far more than a burden to her, and the journey home will cost her far, far more than she was ever willing to pay... but perhaps there's still a little hope left to be found in the last days of a cold and hurt teenage girl.
176 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 14, 2014
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October 26, 2014
This book has problems, but is probably still worth reading.
Snow Taggert is dying - a plague of nanites infects her and is shutting her down one system at a time. Facing death gives her a kind of reckless abandon; it makes her join the very mercenary company responsible for devastating her village in order to steal their walking Mecha. Alas for her, coming part and parcel with this is and eccentric, cheerful gunner. Someone she'll have to cart the mecha home across thousands of miles of hostile planet while heaven and hell move to stop her.
This book was by no means bad - it was just a little internally fractured. The whole "deliberately infected with the virus" thing never quite made any sense to my mind, although it might have just slipped past me as I read. The author clearly believed that the main story-line wouldn't carry the weight of the entire plot, and so strange elements are introduced constantly. The ending, which I won't spoil, also strained the limits of my belief.
However overall it is quite a respectable story, and certainly entertaining enough for your money. Three and a half stars.
Snow Taggert is dying - a plague of nanites infects her and is shutting her down one system at a time. Facing death gives her a kind of reckless abandon; it makes her join the very mercenary company responsible for devastating her village in order to steal their walking Mecha. Alas for her, coming part and parcel with this is and eccentric, cheerful gunner. Someone she'll have to cart the mecha home across thousands of miles of hostile planet while heaven and hell move to stop her.
This book was by no means bad - it was just a little internally fractured. The whole "deliberately infected with the virus" thing never quite made any sense to my mind, although it might have just slipped past me as I read. The author clearly believed that the main story-line wouldn't carry the weight of the entire plot, and so strange elements are introduced constantly. The ending, which I won't spoil, also strained the limits of my belief.
However overall it is quite a respectable story, and certainly entertaining enough for your money. Three and a half stars.
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