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Exodus #4
Arrival
The spaceship Pathfinder arrives at its destination, Gemocon, the new homeworld for the Oconodian/Gemosian people. Commander Pamas Seclan has spent the journey incognito amid the civilians. Traumatized by years of captivity, she is both apprehensive and eager to locate her now grownup children.
Darmiya Do Voy arrived at Gemocon with the advance fleet three years ago. Normally exuberant and positive, the brilliant scientist has burned out and lost her spark. Darmiya meets Pamas and their mutual attraction is intense. Pamas feels she is too old and damaged for Darmiya, but still can’t keep away. Darmiya is determined to persuade Pamas to give them a chance.
During Pathfinder’s massive landing procedures, President Tylio and her associates learn the hard way of the remaining terrorist cells. As the terrorists unscrupulously attempt to reach their objective, Darmiya fights to save Pamas who is toe-to-toe with her former captors.
Cover Artist: Gun Brooke and Sheri Halal
Genres: Romance / Speculative Fiction
Darmiya Do Voy arrived at Gemocon with the advance fleet three years ago. Normally exuberant and positive, the brilliant scientist has burned out and lost her spark. Darmiya meets Pamas and their mutual attraction is intense. Pamas feels she is too old and damaged for Darmiya, but still can’t keep away. Darmiya is determined to persuade Pamas to give them a chance.
During Pathfinder’s massive landing procedures, President Tylio and her associates learn the hard way of the remaining terrorist cells. As the terrorists unscrupulously attempt to reach their objective, Darmiya fights to save Pamas who is toe-to-toe with her former captors.
Cover Artist: Gun Brooke and Sheri Halal
Genres: Romance / Speculative Fiction
242 pages, Paperback
First published December 12, 2017
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Gun Brooke
40 books227 followersGun Brooke resides in the countryside in Sweden with her very patient family. A retired neonatal intensive care nurse, she now writes full time, only rarely taking a break to create web sites for herself or others and to do computer graphics. Gun writes both romances and sci-fi. She is the recipient of the 2009 Alice B. Medal for "body of work."
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November 21, 2017
3 1/2 Stars. This was a good read for the 4th book in the series. After 4 books I have come to really enjoy this series. It has a great cast of characters and each book someone new gets to shine. I thought the first book was just okay, but then the series got better with each additional book. Book 3 is still my favorite out of the bunch, but I still enjoyed this one.
You may want to skip this paragraph if you have never read this series, it has some slight spoilers. The series is about a group of humans who must leave their home planet in search of a new home. Their home planet was taken over by Changers, people who have supernatural abilities, and were dangerous to regular humans. Book 1 is about the advanced team, a ship scouting space to find a new planet. Books 2 and 3 are about the main ship carrying all the people to the new planet. This book 4, is about the main ship landing on the new planet so finally everyone is at their new home. What does that mean for reading order? Well before you could skip book 1, and just read 2 and 3 since they are connected. Now that everyone is on the same planet, all the old characters are back. I now think to truly enjoy this series, start at book 1, and read them in order.
As with all of these books, I think the “I love yous” come pretty quickly, but I expected it and didn’t mind it this time. Like book 3, this is another age-gap romance. I don’t think the two main characters Pam and Dar had a ton of chemistry, but they had a bond. I believed them together and was cheering for a possible relationship.
This book was not quite as exciting as the last book, but it had its moments. I was sucked into the storyline immediately and enjoyed the read. My biggest complaint really is the story ended too soon. The book was a little too short for me and I would have loved even more.
While this is a sci-fi series, I believe people who are not big sci-fi fans will still enjoy it. It’s a story about people and relationships, plus there isn’t hard to understand science or tech. Reading is smooth and everything is well explained. I’m a fan of Brooke and am happy to hear there will be a book 5.
An ARC was given to me by BSB, for a honest review.
You may want to skip this paragraph if you have never read this series, it has some slight spoilers. The series is about a group of humans who must leave their home planet in search of a new home. Their home planet was taken over by Changers, people who have supernatural abilities, and were dangerous to regular humans. Book 1 is about the advanced team, a ship scouting space to find a new planet. Books 2 and 3 are about the main ship carrying all the people to the new planet. This book 4, is about the main ship landing on the new planet so finally everyone is at their new home. What does that mean for reading order? Well before you could skip book 1, and just read 2 and 3 since they are connected. Now that everyone is on the same planet, all the old characters are back. I now think to truly enjoy this series, start at book 1, and read them in order.
As with all of these books, I think the “I love yous” come pretty quickly, but I expected it and didn’t mind it this time. Like book 3, this is another age-gap romance. I don’t think the two main characters Pam and Dar had a ton of chemistry, but they had a bond. I believed them together and was cheering for a possible relationship.
This book was not quite as exciting as the last book, but it had its moments. I was sucked into the storyline immediately and enjoyed the read. My biggest complaint really is the story ended too soon. The book was a little too short for me and I would have loved even more.
While this is a sci-fi series, I believe people who are not big sci-fi fans will still enjoy it. It’s a story about people and relationships, plus there isn’t hard to understand science or tech. Reading is smooth and everything is well explained. I’m a fan of Brooke and am happy to hear there will be a book 5.
An ARC was given to me by BSB, for a honest review.
December 30, 2017
ARC received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This is the fourth in the series, but it’s not the best. It features another older/younger couple, this time Pamas (who is Spinner’s long lost mother) and Darmiya. This mainly functions as a continuing storyline for the other books, and the instalove between the characters was too fast for me and built on nothing of substance. In each of the other books the main characters were on ships together for long periods of time, but here they know each other for all of about a week for the totality of the book and still manage to fall in love.
Pamas is a character who’d experienced something that should have been interesting, but was only skirted around and told in drips and drabs, maybe that’s because there’s at least one book left (I’m assuming based on how this one ended) and Gun is trying to space this information out, but it didn’t work for me. I wanted a scene where Pamas sat down with Spinner and they actually discussed what happened, I also would have liked to see Pamas reunite with Pherry, but I assume that’s still to come.
All in all, this is just filler, and the relationship wasn’t done justice, so I couldn’t really get into it. There were also a few typos, but I assume that’s because this is an ARC and they will be fixed for the final version.
3 stars
This is the fourth in the series, but it’s not the best. It features another older/younger couple, this time Pamas (who is Spinner’s long lost mother) and Darmiya. This mainly functions as a continuing storyline for the other books, and the instalove between the characters was too fast for me and built on nothing of substance. In each of the other books the main characters were on ships together for long periods of time, but here they know each other for all of about a week for the totality of the book and still manage to fall in love.
Pamas is a character who’d experienced something that should have been interesting, but was only skirted around and told in drips and drabs, maybe that’s because there’s at least one book left (I’m assuming based on how this one ended) and Gun is trying to space this information out, but it didn’t work for me. I wanted a scene where Pamas sat down with Spinner and they actually discussed what happened, I also would have liked to see Pamas reunite with Pherry, but I assume that’s still to come.
All in all, this is just filler, and the relationship wasn’t done justice, so I couldn’t really get into it. There were also a few typos, but I assume that’s because this is an ARC and they will be fixed for the final version.
3 stars
December 26, 2017
An honest review thanks to NetGalley. I have read the previous books in the series, but it has been awhile, so my memory was a little dim as I began to read. This was an ok book, but it did not overwhelm me. I found myself getting bored and constantly flipping through pages. The suspense and mission were interesting as well as Pamas reconnecting with her long-lost daughter. I would have liked more of this instead the relationship between Darmiya was put into play. I did not see these two together and didn't feel any connection between them. THis was written great as are most of Gun Brooke's books.
October 9, 2021
Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb here. You need to read the first three books first to really appreciate this one. I have read the previous three but it was a long time a go. So I had to go back and remind myself.
The continuation of the characters and the storyline is good. Both are developed well over the series.
However, I felt the love storyline was a little too rushed. It's an age gap romance and the older woman was imprisoned and tortured for twenty years. Now don't get me wrong I'm glad she survived all those years but surely she would have some emotional trauma. And the girl. I call her a girl because she won't shut up. I know opposites attract and you fall in love for the strangest of reasons. But if my best friend fell in love with my daughter I might have to say something.
Anyway, overall not a bad read just me nit picking. 3 stars
The continuation of the characters and the storyline is good. Both are developed well over the series.
However, I felt the love storyline was a little too rushed. It's an age gap romance and the older woman was imprisoned and tortured for twenty years. Now don't get me wrong I'm glad she survived all those years but surely she would have some emotional trauma. And the girl. I call her a girl because she won't shut up. I know opposites attract and you fall in love for the strangest of reasons. But if my best friend fell in love with my daughter I might have to say something.
Anyway, overall not a bad read just me nit picking. 3 stars
May 26, 2018
4th in the Exodus series this one follows the romance of Pamas (Spinner's mother) and Darmiya her best friend as well as following the major series arc of the Exodus fleet finally reaching their destination.
I'll start with the positives - I'm a big big fan of the SC universe and I love the Star Trek/X-Men core concept and the main story arc of the exodus fleet. World building, universe, technology etc... are all very good.
The writing is very readable as ever, it's not too clunky and you never get bogged down in techno babble.
I also love the cover - easily my favourite of the series to date.
What lets this particular instalment down for me are characters, romance and story. Now Pamas, other than her name, I really liked. I loved how she'd been imprisoned and tortured for 20 years before escaping and she totally rocked the eye-patch. My main issue with her was she wasn't nearly tortured or broken enough - this woman should seriously have issues and yet we never see them in play.
I really dislike Darmiya - her constant babbling annoyed me and her perky personality really didn't gel for me with her supposed professional skill. As with the previous volume we have another May to December pairing - we're told Pamas is 49 but although Darmiya is young we never get told how young although certainly young enough to be her daughter (she's her daughter's best friend!) and I never felt the angst issues from any of this - either Pamas' guilt or Darmiya's confusion. I found the whole romance far too easy and snowballed with hardly any time for emotional build - the time-frame of this one is only a few days.
I also felt the story lacked cohesion - we move from searching for Black Garnet to finding clones (basically Borg) with little to no explanation as to the connection and how they can suddenly scan for an unscannable substance - now I know I said this wasn't bogged down with techno babble, but a little more exposition was really needed here. There's an excellent story here that just needs a bit more to make it awesome.
While I found this one very readable as ever, I was totally swept up with the SC universe, both the narrative and the romance are very rushed and I just wasn't feeling it as much as the last 3 books,
I'll start with the positives - I'm a big big fan of the SC universe and I love the Star Trek/X-Men core concept and the main story arc of the exodus fleet. World building, universe, technology etc... are all very good.
The writing is very readable as ever, it's not too clunky and you never get bogged down in techno babble.
I also love the cover - easily my favourite of the series to date.
What lets this particular instalment down for me are characters, romance and story. Now Pamas, other than her name, I really liked. I loved how she'd been imprisoned and tortured for 20 years before escaping and she totally rocked the eye-patch. My main issue with her was she wasn't nearly tortured or broken enough - this woman should seriously have issues and yet we never see them in play.
I really dislike Darmiya - her constant babbling annoyed me and her perky personality really didn't gel for me with her supposed professional skill. As with the previous volume we have another May to December pairing - we're told Pamas is 49 but although Darmiya is young we never get told how young although certainly young enough to be her daughter (she's her daughter's best friend!) and I never felt the angst issues from any of this - either Pamas' guilt or Darmiya's confusion. I found the whole romance far too easy and snowballed with hardly any time for emotional build - the time-frame of this one is only a few days.
I also felt the story lacked cohesion - we move from searching for Black Garnet to finding clones (basically Borg) with little to no explanation as to the connection and how they can suddenly scan for an unscannable substance - now I know I said this wasn't bogged down with techno babble, but a little more exposition was really needed here. There's an excellent story here that just needs a bit more to make it awesome.
While I found this one very readable as ever, I was totally swept up with the SC universe, both the narrative and the romance are very rushed and I just wasn't feeling it as much as the last 3 books,
February 14, 2018
Arrival is the 4th book in the Exodus series. This is a romantic, suspenseful science fiction story. I have read all the books in this series, as well as all of Ms. Brooke’s other books.
As with the other books in this series, Ms. Brooke does an excellent job with the storyline and the character development. Because it is a series, you get to revisit the characters you got to know in previous books. Ms. Brooke has been able to weave a story that flows so well from each one of her books. I would not recommend reading this book unless you have read the previous books as you will miss out on learning why the Oconodian/Gemosian people had to leave their home for the planet Gemocon.
I enjoyed the way Ms. Brooke develops the suspense in each of her books. At the end of this book you will sense that there will be another one coming. I only hope that she can write quickly.
I am giving this book 5 out of 5 stars.
I was given this ARC in return for a fair and honest review.
As with the other books in this series, Ms. Brooke does an excellent job with the storyline and the character development. Because it is a series, you get to revisit the characters you got to know in previous books. Ms. Brooke has been able to weave a story that flows so well from each one of her books. I would not recommend reading this book unless you have read the previous books as you will miss out on learning why the Oconodian/Gemosian people had to leave their home for the planet Gemocon.
I enjoyed the way Ms. Brooke develops the suspense in each of her books. At the end of this book you will sense that there will be another one coming. I only hope that she can write quickly.
I am giving this book 5 out of 5 stars.
I was given this ARC in return for a fair and honest review.
December 20, 2018
Loved it!
This series is getting better and better. I can’t wait for book five. Well written, with very interesting characters. I couldn’t put it down. Highly recommended.
This series is getting better and better. I can’t wait for book five. Well written, with very interesting characters. I couldn’t put it down. Highly recommended.
December 31, 2017
This is book 4 in the series and not the best in my opinion. I didn’t like the pace of the relationship between Pamas and Darmiya - their real action ship evolved in a very fast way that didn’t seem natural and there was so substance or chemistry in their relationship. Beside that the overall pace of the story was too slow and I was tempted to skip pages in between.
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