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Rifter: Traitors at Teteris
Kill the bad guy, rescue the girl, save humanity…just another day in the Rift.
For those who travel beyond the Boundary, death awaits. For Travis Spencer, avoiding death inside the Rift is an everyday occurrence. As a Rifter, Travis works what salvage he can find out on the Boundary along with the occasional smuggling run, doing whatever it takes to keep fuel in his ship. His only company is a beautiful shape-shifter named Shay, whose goal in life is to ensure Travis remains single and frustrated. Travis and Shay’s world is turned upside-down when they rescue the mysterious Nia from marauding Vrtra attackers, dragon-like aliens who don’t take kindly to trespassers through their Boundary home. Turns out, Nia isn’t from the Rift and the secrets she holds are explosive. For Travis, it’s another day saving his fellow humans from certain annihilation!
“When in the Rift, do as the Rifters.” The Rift is surrounded by the impassable dust clouds of the Boundary. Cut off from Earth by the vicious Vrtra and the shifting paths through the Labyrinth, the colonists of the Rift rely on the military might of the Colonial Guard to protect them. All is well until Nia’s ship shows up after 124 years of no word from Earth. Someone desperately wants to keep her arrival a secret!
“I’ve found it’s best to travel in a pack.” Caught up in a conspiracy to hide the contact between Earth and the Colonies, Travis, Shay, and Nia find themselves on the run from relentless Saivi bounty hunters and human traitors. Travis must turn to his misfit friends to stay alive, clear their names, and save the Colonies.
“The Rift, love it because you sure as shatl can’t leave it!” Travis discovers his mentor, Nicoli, has developed a starship engine called a Fold Drive. Nicoli’s achievement allows a vessel to bypass the Boundary’s shield-shattering dust and hostile aliens. Travis tracks the prototype to Teteris; the site of our hero’s final showdown. Travis discovers the Drive has the unfortunate side effect of destroying nearby stars and planets. As Travis fights for his life, he also must keep the Drive from being activated to save millions of colonists!
“I may live for today, but I exist for revenge!” Shay’s changeling abilities prove essential during their struggle. Shay overcomes her distrust of Nia and dedicates herself to saving the Colonies. Shay takes the form of her hated enemy, the Saivi, to provide the distraction Nia needs to uncover the link between the Saivi Prefect Ghatriff and the Guard traitors and exact retribution.
“That’s the best part, Shay; we get to kill the bad guy and rescue the girl.” Travis finds himself falling for Nia. When she is captured by disloyal members of the Guard, Travis and Shay enact a plan to expose the conspiracy, stop the Colony take-over, and rid themselves of the Saivi. In the end, Travis saves Nia, defeats those bent on destroying his crew while Shay accepts her new crewmate from Earth. The life of a Rifter is never easy, but it has its days!
For those who travel beyond the Boundary, death awaits. For Travis Spencer, avoiding death inside the Rift is an everyday occurrence. As a Rifter, Travis works what salvage he can find out on the Boundary along with the occasional smuggling run, doing whatever it takes to keep fuel in his ship. His only company is a beautiful shape-shifter named Shay, whose goal in life is to ensure Travis remains single and frustrated. Travis and Shay’s world is turned upside-down when they rescue the mysterious Nia from marauding Vrtra attackers, dragon-like aliens who don’t take kindly to trespassers through their Boundary home. Turns out, Nia isn’t from the Rift and the secrets she holds are explosive. For Travis, it’s another day saving his fellow humans from certain annihilation!
“When in the Rift, do as the Rifters.” The Rift is surrounded by the impassable dust clouds of the Boundary. Cut off from Earth by the vicious Vrtra and the shifting paths through the Labyrinth, the colonists of the Rift rely on the military might of the Colonial Guard to protect them. All is well until Nia’s ship shows up after 124 years of no word from Earth. Someone desperately wants to keep her arrival a secret!
“I’ve found it’s best to travel in a pack.” Caught up in a conspiracy to hide the contact between Earth and the Colonies, Travis, Shay, and Nia find themselves on the run from relentless Saivi bounty hunters and human traitors. Travis must turn to his misfit friends to stay alive, clear their names, and save the Colonies.
“The Rift, love it because you sure as shatl can’t leave it!” Travis discovers his mentor, Nicoli, has developed a starship engine called a Fold Drive. Nicoli’s achievement allows a vessel to bypass the Boundary’s shield-shattering dust and hostile aliens. Travis tracks the prototype to Teteris; the site of our hero’s final showdown. Travis discovers the Drive has the unfortunate side effect of destroying nearby stars and planets. As Travis fights for his life, he also must keep the Drive from being activated to save millions of colonists!
“I may live for today, but I exist for revenge!” Shay’s changeling abilities prove essential during their struggle. Shay overcomes her distrust of Nia and dedicates herself to saving the Colonies. Shay takes the form of her hated enemy, the Saivi, to provide the distraction Nia needs to uncover the link between the Saivi Prefect Ghatriff and the Guard traitors and exact retribution.
“That’s the best part, Shay; we get to kill the bad guy and rescue the girl.” Travis finds himself falling for Nia. When she is captured by disloyal members of the Guard, Travis and Shay enact a plan to expose the conspiracy, stop the Colony take-over, and rid themselves of the Saivi. In the end, Travis saves Nia, defeats those bent on destroying his crew while Shay accepts her new crewmate from Earth. The life of a Rifter is never easy, but it has its days!
313 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 2, 2016
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April 21, 2018
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the…oh, it’s not that kind of novel? Rifter: Traitors at Teteris by Jason Kent is a grittier dive through the cosmos more akin to Firefly with a splash of Star Wars. Kent’s writing is action-packed and reminds me of the films I used to love watching as a kid.
Enter the Rift, a somewhat chaotic expanse of space filled with scavengers and deadly aliens. We follow Captain Travis and his partner in crime, a shapeshifting alien named Shay. I personally loved Shay and the snarky and witty interaction between her and Travis as they bungled through missions. After discovering a derelict vessel and rescuing Nia, its lone survivor, their lives are thrown into turmoil as they uncover a plot with greater consequences to the Rift at large. The mystery, the action, and the characters made this one a great page turner for me!
Enter the Rift, a somewhat chaotic expanse of space filled with scavengers and deadly aliens. We follow Captain Travis and his partner in crime, a shapeshifting alien named Shay. I personally loved Shay and the snarky and witty interaction between her and Travis as they bungled through missions. After discovering a derelict vessel and rescuing Nia, its lone survivor, their lives are thrown into turmoil as they uncover a plot with greater consequences to the Rift at large. The mystery, the action, and the characters made this one a great page turner for me!
June 4, 2017
Life in the Rift, trapped behind an impassible boundary in a sector of space inhabited by various more and less hostile species, isn't easy, but Travis Spencer is pretty much used to that. A descendant of the original colonists that came from Earth 124 years ago and barely scraped through an unexpected war during which they became cut off from their home planet but have since adapted to life in the Rift, he makes a living working salvage and handling the occasional smuggling run with his shapehifter business partner Shay. Checking out a wrecked ship near the boundary and promptly getting almost shot by a bunch of hostile dragon-like aliens, they end up losing the salvage they came for but manage to rescue an unexpected survivor from the ship's crew - a survivor named Nia who claims to have been sent from Earth in response to a series of mysterious message beacons coming through the boundary from descendants of the expedition Earth long thought lost. Soon, Travis, Shay and Nia discover that someone definitely doesn't want anyone to know about renewed contact between Earth and the Rift, and the three of them find themselves wrapped up in a conspiracy of unprecedented proportions that is more than likely going to get all three of them killed.
Fastpaced action, quirky characters, weirdly fascinating multispecies shenanigans, lots of humour - just how I like my space opera. This was a hugely entertaining read right from the start. I can only hope there's a sequel in the works, because I'd love to find out what these characters get up to next.
Fastpaced action, quirky characters, weirdly fascinating multispecies shenanigans, lots of humour - just how I like my space opera. This was a hugely entertaining read right from the start. I can only hope there's a sequel in the works, because I'd love to find out what these characters get up to next.
August 29, 2018
This was an incredible book, full of action and even though a fiction book, the situations all seemed very realistic as if somewhere in some far away galaxy these things could be actually happening. It was a very fun read, kept me wanting more and was hard to put down. My only complaint would have to be the grammatical errors I found throughout the course of reading the book. There weren't a lot of them, but enough for me to notice them when I came across them. Oh and the word 'shatl' as a word for shit, seemed a little odd. Why not just have them say shit instead of shatl? Seemed a little odd to me, but hey, to each their own. Overall, a great book. I'll be looking for more from this author in the future.
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