Selene thought repairing a derelict station would be her biggest challenge. That was before the turrets started firing. Before the hull breaches. Before the mercenary blockade arrived to claim what she'd found.
Black Sky fights dirty. Corridors seal during firefights. Life support fails mid-battle. Ancient weapon systems activate with targeting parameters centuries out of date. Every deck holds new dangers, new systems coming online, new ways to die.
The mercenaries keep coming. Boarding pods slam into the hull. Infiltration teams sabotage critical systems. Their leader promises to tear the station apart piece by piece until he gets what he wants.
Selene's crew fights back with whatever works. Jury-rigged turrets. Reactivated war drones. Corridors flooded with toxins. The station provides weapons, though using them might trigger something worse. Each battle awakens more systems. Each system remembers its purpose.
The fights grow deadlier. The station grows hungrier. Something massive stirs in Black Sky's depths, and both sides race to control it.
Will Selene unlock the ultimate weapon that saves her crew and defeats the invaders? Or will she unleash something that makes the mercenaries look like the lesser evil?
This series is getting better with each book. Lots more action and adventure, interesting characters, and fun tech mixed in too. I really enjoyed these books and can’t wait until book three. I definitely recommend this series.
Overall, I like the story. However, I have to wonder are there any alpha or beta readers of this book before it was published? There are many instances of dead in chapters. What is meant by that is one chapter ends in a specific action that should be followed through in the next chapter, however, when the next chapter starts, they are completely off somewhere else. For instance, The main character and her security chief were going to interview a saboteur and and she specifically stated how important it was. He was with her as they were going in. The chapter. Ended it in the next chapter. She’s completely somewhere else with him walking off with someone else to do another job. If that happens once you think, maybe it’s a plot device, but this happens several times throughout the first half of the book as far as continuity. She told her computer guy in one chapter what her plans were and what he needed to start working on the very next chapter she goes to speak to him and he ask her what her plans are. She hast to tell him the idea again and he act as if he is hearing for the first time. Very odd…