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He broke out of space prison. Now he’s broke in space – and the alien girls be shoppin.
Grant didn’t ask to be the galaxy’s most wanted fugitive. But after escaping space prison with five of the most dangerous female convicts in supermax and a ghost ship full of haunted salvage, he’s now stuck in a broke-ass mining station on the edge of civilization run by the worst lifeform in the middle management.
Everything costs money – air, parking, organ replacement… there’s even a surcharge on every flush. And thanks to a surprise visit from cyborg process servers, he’s got fifty days before his ship gets seized and his crew of nubile alien girls gets sold for parts.
To keep the lights on, Grant becomes a freelance marshal, working bounty gigs for cash, blackmailing smugglers, detonating space pirates and possibly harpooning endangered space whales. His clients? Catgirl pop stars, gladiator superfans, mutant cults, sexy space nuns, corrupt megacorps and rogue pharmaceutical AIs who uses human guinea pigs because animal testing is inhumane.
His backup? An increasingly curvy (and pregnant) alien pilot with suspiciously vague family history, a reality-TV catgirl who’s there to boost ratings or maybe ruin his life, and a morally-flexible psychic spider.
Good thing Grant’s from Earth… where surviving things like predators, road rage, poison air and income tax puts him so high up on the alien food chain he needs an oxygen mask just to breathe.
Packed with explosive action, foul-mouthed humor, shady deals, and steamy alien girl fan service, book 2 of the Space Prison series is a sci-fi harem adventure for fans of Borderlands, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and hilarious bad decisions.Perfect if you like ‘humans are space orcs’, HFY, and stories where duct tape, violence, and high sperm count are legitimate tools of success.
Strap in. Get paid. Pick a best girl.
18+ CONTENT This story is a sci-fi harem adventure where the morals and social constructs of our world don’t apply to a harsh alien civilization. If steamy action and violence bothers you, maybe put the safe-search on your browser and go back to watching baking shows.
This was a long but fun book, though there were plentiful editing errors that keep it from being 5 stars.
It also suffers from the author splitting the harem up, as only the one woman goes with on what turns out to be a very extended trip that consumes over half the book. That's always a mistake. Having 3 of the existing harem members not be around while the MC ends up adding a 5th was not cool. I didn't like the new harem member much, as she was an annoying "streamer" personality type. She eventually, after a long slog of her acting like a jerk, come around, but it was painful.
I like this guy's books, and I really would have liked to be able to give this a 5, but I just can't. One word: Pacing.
The component parts of this book are fun, if a bit editing-challenged in places, but it is just too long for the amount of forward plot movement is provides. As much as I enjoy Grant and Boomi pushing a bunch of peoples' shit in in numerous locales, that was most of the book. I know what I'm getting into with these books, but it seemed the author didn't know what to trim out of this one. Still a fun read, but ran too long with a rather compressed ending.
This book was a great second book in the series. The characters are still developing, but fun to read. The actions scenes were also really good. The new character, Pandy was great. Can't wait for book 3.