Captive

Fiona Frost #2

by Penny Greenhorn

Fiona Frost is a farm girl turned soldier that hails from Earth’s arid colony, a planet called Providence. On the day she is meant to be celebrating with her mates, she’s inadvertently shipped into space where she falls prey to the inhabitants of Braacktda, a hostile race whose only wish is to kill her. Stranded on an alien planet and held captive by an inscrutable savage, Fiona faces death often. With only her military training to save her, can she survive?

A teen science fiction and romance, Captive is the second novel in the Fiona Frost Trilogy.

Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult, Survival

Unknown Binding

First published January 12, 2014

About the author

Penny Greenhorn is a novelist who currently resides in Alaska. When she’s not writing science fiction, fantasy or misanthropes, she can be found off the beaten track with her fuzzy schnauzer, Boods. Her works include the Empath Series, Fiona Frost Trilogy, and a stand-alone urban fantasy, Harbinger. You can find out more about Penny and her twitterpated heroines at pennygreenhorn.com.

Reviews

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mmmmm, I love a rousing bout of Stockholm syndrome.

This wasn't really the follow-up I expected. In book one, Fiona battled with blood, sweat and tears to become an excepted and contributing member of her military team. Only to find out in the end that it was simply a social experiment, and now her services were no longer required.

Sort of like a war-time My Fair Lady who asks the question "what will become of me?" As she's no longer the girl from the farm in the life she had before, and no longer part of the military that she was trained to be. What does a girl with a knowledge of guns and how to use them, and a head for languages do? Go home to her provincial life that she wasn't fitting into very well, and have babies?

One accidental spaceship ride later...she wakes up in the land of the grindts, in my mind they were very Klingon seeming. Kind of orangey, with dark hair, protruding brow bone, and violent. The book handily avoids having to explain how she survived, by rendering her unconscious and waking up in a brand new experience of being the only human, and having to trek for about a month in a small cart from one location to the other, because this species doesn't like to use their nice fast advanced spaceships when you can...you know...walk.

Her captor is a bit more advanced then the others, how any species as angry and territorial as these managed to have advanced technology or work together in any respect is still a bit of a mystery to me. Anyhow, he's a terrible interrogator, and for all everyone's threat of horrific torture, she's injured plenty, but not because anyone wanted information out of her.

The Fiona that survives the experience (which I don't consider a spoiler, because it is a trilogy) finds a different version of strong. Back home on the farm, she was physically strong, she was inured to peer pressure strong. At the base, she became more mentally strong, more educated, more worldly. On this planet, she learns aggressiveness, loses fear of authority, and crosses those boundaries of being a weaker mentally/physical female.

This Fiona can survive on a planet of Grindts, but this Fiona around humans is savage, and though I liked that she could truly kick some ass....I kind of missed the sweet part of her.

I did, all in all enjoy this book, I was glad that it escaped some of the strict military boot camp format and when in other directions.

[Alison Mains]

I eagerly awaited this second and final book in the Fiona Frost Duology. Once again I was taken with world she has created, and I only wish there was more! It seems a shame never to revisit it again. Perhaps from the perspective of a different character? This book seemed a bit more rushed than the first, and was a bit short--but I like a really long book to get sunk into.

I will be keeping my eyes open for anything and everything else Penny Greenhorn writes.

[Deborah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a turn of events, it was great plot I love the way that is book has been written. I only wish that we were to know more of Fiona's story, please Penny Greenhorn could we have another book in this series.

[Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Equally as good as the first book. Some of the character development happens a little too fast for my liking (mostly due to my selfish desire to want MORE), but nonetheless a great read!