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Burning Suns: Conflagration #1
Burning Suns: Conflagration #1
- - Conflict is coming - -
Jennifer Bronwen, deep-space freighter skipper, sometime smuggler, and occasional blaster-for-hire is flat broke and in desperate need of a job. With her bills mounting and her ship one unlucky micrometeorite collision away from the scrapheap, when she’s offered a lucrative contract for a risky heist, well, it’s an opportunity she can’t afford to pass up.
Keera Naraymis, a secret agent on deep-cover assignment in alien space, has just one more job to finish before her mission is complete. Getting it right means making the galaxy a safer place, and taking a trip to the Terran homeworld should be simple enough. But in the espionage game, your enemies are never quite who they appear.
When their lives collide with catastrophic consequences, Jen and Keera form an unlikely alliance to find out why anyone would want to kill either one of them. What they discover runs far deeper than they could ever have anticipated, and throws them into a race against time to stop a conspiracy that threatens to unravel a thousand years of peace in the galaxy of the Burning Suns.
Jennifer Bronwen, deep-space freighter skipper, sometime smuggler, and occasional blaster-for-hire is flat broke and in desperate need of a job. With her bills mounting and her ship one unlucky micrometeorite collision away from the scrapheap, when she’s offered a lucrative contract for a risky heist, well, it’s an opportunity she can’t afford to pass up.
Keera Naraymis, a secret agent on deep-cover assignment in alien space, has just one more job to finish before her mission is complete. Getting it right means making the galaxy a safer place, and taking a trip to the Terran homeworld should be simple enough. But in the espionage game, your enemies are never quite who they appear.
When their lives collide with catastrophic consequences, Jen and Keera form an unlikely alliance to find out why anyone would want to kill either one of them. What they discover runs far deeper than they could ever have anticipated, and throws them into a race against time to stop a conspiracy that threatens to unravel a thousand years of peace in the galaxy of the Burning Suns.
- GenresScience Fiction
204 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 3, 2015
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About the author
Lisa Wylie
17 books17 followersI'm an enthusiastic newbie writer based in Glasgow, Scotland, and a lifelong sci-fi and fantasy geek, a condition predestined by being born the year Star Wars was released. Burning Suns: Conflagration is my first published work of fiction. When I'm not writing I enjoy cooking, gaming, reading other people's fantastic work, and snapping the odd photo or two.
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September 20, 2017
4.5*
Super Space opera romp! Not quite perfect but it is fast paced, and although this is not the world we know the world building is well conceived and well thought out. I would have liked a little more info about the races, but then that might interfere with the action. And there is plenty of it.
Although FF, the MC is unfussed about the gender of her sleeping partners, and although her current buddy is male, there are enough hints to say this is not exclusive. Good.
I liked this so much I bought Book two almost immediately. This nbook is definitely for those who like space opera with a strong female lead.
Super Space opera romp! Not quite perfect but it is fast paced, and although this is not the world we know the world building is well conceived and well thought out. I would have liked a little more info about the races, but then that might interfere with the action. And there is plenty of it.
Although FF, the MC is unfussed about the gender of her sleeping partners, and although her current buddy is male, there are enough hints to say this is not exclusive. Good.
I liked this so much I bought Book two almost immediately. This nbook is definitely for those who like space opera with a strong female lead.
March 20, 2016
The character development was thorough, and the plot was quite unique. Burning Suns was the first book of this type I’ve ever read; it seemed like such a gloomy time to live, yet I found myself laughing at several parts in the book. I appreciated Wylie’s writing style; she is a talented writer, and I look forward to watching her grow in her future books.
Though I found it slow to start, I enjoyed Burning Suns: Conflagration, and give it 3 Boundless Stars.....Beth
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Though I found it slow to start, I enjoyed Burning Suns: Conflagration, and give it 3 Boundless Stars.....Beth
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March 17, 2024
As a book written to position an already created game world I wasn't expecting a lot - but I was very pleasantly surprised! It's a good example of space opera with the lives of two core characters and several smaller players against the wider backdrop of increasing interracial/interspecies tensions.
Also, as someone who likes to see strong female characters in addition to the men I was happy to see not one, but two women as central to the plot.
Is it perfect? Of course not but it's a good read that made me buy books 2 & 3 when book 1 came to an end all too soon.
Also, as someone who likes to see strong female characters in addition to the men I was happy to see not one, but two women as central to the plot.
Is it perfect? Of course not but it's a good read that made me buy books 2 & 3 when book 1 came to an end all too soon.
May 30, 2016
Title: Lights Spark
“Burning Suns Book One: Conflagration” by Lisa Wylie
Reviewed by Shelby Jo
5/21/16
5:00 p.m.
Burning Suns Book One: Conflagration by Lisa Wylie tosses tough, back-talking space captain Jennifer Bronwen and her unlikely companion, straight-laced politician Keera Naraymis, into an intergalactic adventure of political intrigue. The story alternates primarily between the two women’s perspectives as they team up in order to maintain peace as they know it.
The largest pitfall of the fantasy and science fiction genres is “plot for plot’s sake,” and Conflagration provides no relief from this trope. The inciting incidents are delicately arranged like a stack of dominoes to throw the main characters into the action of the book, rather than the incidents occurring naturally out of character-conscious decisions.
The characters of Conflagration may make this difficult, however, because they are not especially dynamic or well defined. The powerful female duo that leads the story is refreshing and entertaining, but unfortunately inconsistent. Jen and Keera have great potential to contrast and complement each other, once their characters are more thoroughly developed.
Wylie cleverly includes planet Earth amidst the other fantastic and fictional galaxies in this space epic, without the planet serving as “home base” for any characters, a decision that significantly advances the world building and easily helps to ground the reader in the story. Wylie’s prose finds a comfortable, and enviable, middle ground; the story reads like fantasy or sci-fi without sounding contrived.
The author’s attempt to tell part of the narrative from the point of view of a cyborg character muddles the story. This was a bold move on Wylie’s part, and it does provide a unique perspective; however, she also attempts to relay intricate political complications in these sections that simply cannot come across to the reader with the stream of consciousness formatting.
I give “Conflagration” 3 out of 5 stars.
Happy Reading!
Shelby Jo
“Burning Suns Book One: Conflagration” by Lisa Wylie
Reviewed by Shelby Jo
5/21/16
5:00 p.m.
Burning Suns Book One: Conflagration by Lisa Wylie tosses tough, back-talking space captain Jennifer Bronwen and her unlikely companion, straight-laced politician Keera Naraymis, into an intergalactic adventure of political intrigue. The story alternates primarily between the two women’s perspectives as they team up in order to maintain peace as they know it.
The largest pitfall of the fantasy and science fiction genres is “plot for plot’s sake,” and Conflagration provides no relief from this trope. The inciting incidents are delicately arranged like a stack of dominoes to throw the main characters into the action of the book, rather than the incidents occurring naturally out of character-conscious decisions.
The characters of Conflagration may make this difficult, however, because they are not especially dynamic or well defined. The powerful female duo that leads the story is refreshing and entertaining, but unfortunately inconsistent. Jen and Keera have great potential to contrast and complement each other, once their characters are more thoroughly developed.
Wylie cleverly includes planet Earth amidst the other fantastic and fictional galaxies in this space epic, without the planet serving as “home base” for any characters, a decision that significantly advances the world building and easily helps to ground the reader in the story. Wylie’s prose finds a comfortable, and enviable, middle ground; the story reads like fantasy or sci-fi without sounding contrived.
The author’s attempt to tell part of the narrative from the point of view of a cyborg character muddles the story. This was a bold move on Wylie’s part, and it does provide a unique perspective; however, she also attempts to relay intricate political complications in these sections that simply cannot come across to the reader with the stream of consciousness formatting.
I give “Conflagration” 3 out of 5 stars.
Happy Reading!
Shelby Jo
April 21, 2016
Burning Suns: Book One - Conflagration by Lisa Wylie is a science fiction space adventure novel at its best and I loved it. Before you start reading you had better practice your breathing exercises as this book will not let you catch your breath.
The author has done an excellent job of creating an adventure story that is full of action and intrigue. It is so full of plot twists and turns you have to hold on tight to keep up. Yet, with all this, it is a great book to read and easy to follow. I really liked it.
Lisa Wylie has developed a cast of characters that are easy to get into and follow. They are real and very believable. Their personalities come alive as the story progresses. This, along with the storyline, made the book come alive and grab me by the seat of my pants and would not let me stop reading.
I thought Burning Suns: Book One - Conflagration by Lisa Wylie was an excellent book and I highly recommend this book to all readers.
The author has done an excellent job of creating an adventure story that is full of action and intrigue. It is so full of plot twists and turns you have to hold on tight to keep up. Yet, with all this, it is a great book to read and easy to follow. I really liked it.
Lisa Wylie has developed a cast of characters that are easy to get into and follow. They are real and very believable. Their personalities come alive as the story progresses. This, along with the storyline, made the book come alive and grab me by the seat of my pants and would not let me stop reading.
I thought Burning Suns: Book One - Conflagration by Lisa Wylie was an excellent book and I highly recommend this book to all readers.
March 14, 2016
I loved the author's writing style, and I believe she has a lot of potential. However, this book was a little too much sci fi for me. The idea of the story was a good one, but it was too slow for my tastes.
January 23, 2017
A decent start to a series. I enjoyed the action, didn't mind the characters, and felt that the story was not too bad although I thought that there could have been a few more background details but I suspect some of the answers to questions may become apparent in the next book - such as how the Cyborg warrior fits into the overall scheme of things. The two main characters were well written for the most part but I found Jennifer's leering a little creepy and I'm hoping the story doesn't turn into some big romantic tryst. The book ends with some excitement and I'm looking forward to reading the next one.
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