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Sleepy Time For Captain Eris
Captain Eris, AKA Death Engine, former military DNA tweak and mercenary is unexpectedly pulled out of her retirement in Champion Acres and dragged back into the shit by an idiot in a mech suit.
Feeling pissed off and miserable about losing her retirement lifestyle and subsequently, her chances of dying of old age; she searches for the reasons why she was reactivated. With the help of her old friend Al, an incognito artificial intelligence; and Om, a twenty-something emo tweak-girl, she discovers a plot that goes a lot deeper than losing her death. And in doing so, she finds a reason to survive.
Feeling pissed off and miserable about losing her retirement lifestyle and subsequently, her chances of dying of old age; she searches for the reasons why she was reactivated. With the help of her old friend Al, an incognito artificial intelligence; and Om, a twenty-something emo tweak-girl, she discovers a plot that goes a lot deeper than losing her death. And in doing so, she finds a reason to survive.
215 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 19, 2020
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About the author
Margret A. Treiber
21 books28 followersAlso going by the moniker of “Ew! It’s Margret”, Margret “The Margret” Treiber has been voted “most likely to display awkward and inappropriate behavior in public” by a random group of drunks downtown.
Besides being odd and writing speculative fiction, Margret serves as editor-in-chief for the speculative humor magazine, Sci-Fi Lampoon. When she’s not writing or working at her day job corrupting technology, she helps her birds break things for her spouse to fix.
Her fiction has appeared in a number of publications. Links to her short stories, novels, and upcoming work can be found on her website at http://www.the-margret.com and on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Margret-A.-Tre....
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Besides being odd and writing speculative fiction, Margret serves as editor-in-chief for the speculative humor magazine, Sci-Fi Lampoon. When she’s not writing or working at her day job corrupting technology, she helps her birds break things for her spouse to fix.
Her fiction has appeared in a number of publications. Links to her short stories, novels, and upcoming work can be found on her website at http://www.the-margret.com and on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Margret-A.-Tre....
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June 30, 2018
Margret Treiber's 'Sleepy Time For Captain Eris' is a remarkably fun superhero yarn.
The titular Captain Eris is cursed with the inability to stay dead, and with each subsequent death, she gains a new set of powers linked to the manner in which she was killed. It's a clever setup and one that is used in an intelligent manner. Set in the not too distant future in which Earth's population is rapidly emigrating to outer colonies, Eris is called back into action for another mission - this time with a young and hopelessly inexperienced team. Without spoiling the plot too much, things do not go nearly as planned.
Intriguing from the start and satisfying to the end, this novel features strong characters with even stronger voices. The action is punchy and a breeze to follow, though a word of warning, some readers may find certain scenes a little hard to stomach. Eris dies A LOT, and always in a fresh inventive manner.
Highly recommended for fans of clever superhero tales.
The titular Captain Eris is cursed with the inability to stay dead, and with each subsequent death, she gains a new set of powers linked to the manner in which she was killed. It's a clever setup and one that is used in an intelligent manner. Set in the not too distant future in which Earth's population is rapidly emigrating to outer colonies, Eris is called back into action for another mission - this time with a young and hopelessly inexperienced team. Without spoiling the plot too much, things do not go nearly as planned.
Intriguing from the start and satisfying to the end, this novel features strong characters with even stronger voices. The action is punchy and a breeze to follow, though a word of warning, some readers may find certain scenes a little hard to stomach. Eris dies A LOT, and always in a fresh inventive manner.
Highly recommended for fans of clever superhero tales.
June 19, 2018
Review of Sleepy Time For Captain Eris- 5 Stars
Author Margret Treiber’s Sleepy Time For Captain Eris is an intriguing superhero/sci-fi story. Treiber transports the reader to an earth that has degenerated into a suffering, economically depressed world exploited by a group of white collar criminals. A superhero trio led by Captain Eris has taken on the quest of eliminating this oligarchy, leading to many unexpected adventures and a surprising conclusion.
Eris is a valiant but tragic figure who suffers many deaths at the hands of ruthless villains but who returns to life each time with a different superpower, in a seemingly endless cycle of death and regeneration. Alienated from the world, her best friend is an advanced robot.
The story is told with a refreshingly simple, uncluttered writing style with punchy and raunchy dialogue. There are some choice one-liners, e.g. “Life is a bitch and then you become one.”
Overall, the book is a highly original, engaging sci-fi story, well worth the read, especially for those who like the superhero genre.
Peter Fratesi
Author Margret Treiber’s Sleepy Time For Captain Eris is an intriguing superhero/sci-fi story. Treiber transports the reader to an earth that has degenerated into a suffering, economically depressed world exploited by a group of white collar criminals. A superhero trio led by Captain Eris has taken on the quest of eliminating this oligarchy, leading to many unexpected adventures and a surprising conclusion.
Eris is a valiant but tragic figure who suffers many deaths at the hands of ruthless villains but who returns to life each time with a different superpower, in a seemingly endless cycle of death and regeneration. Alienated from the world, her best friend is an advanced robot.
The story is told with a refreshingly simple, uncluttered writing style with punchy and raunchy dialogue. There are some choice one-liners, e.g. “Life is a bitch and then you become one.”
Overall, the book is a highly original, engaging sci-fi story, well worth the read, especially for those who like the superhero genre.
Peter Fratesi
September 30, 2018
I have received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Firstly, what a strange title for a book. My initial thought was that the genre was mislabeled and that it was, in fact, a children's book.
Secondly, I don't think I've ever had the privilege of reading a story quite like this. I feel as though I've just read a graphic novel and I thoroughly and unexpectedly enjoyed it.
The story is graphic, the language of the characters is bad and the characters are colourful beyond belief.
I do, however, feel there is more to this story than the short 'episode' presented in this book. I would love to know how Earth became the dumping ground everyone was trying to escape and another book, depicting stories of the Outer colonies, would be a truly interesting read.
Firstly, what a strange title for a book. My initial thought was that the genre was mislabeled and that it was, in fact, a children's book.
Secondly, I don't think I've ever had the privilege of reading a story quite like this. I feel as though I've just read a graphic novel and I thoroughly and unexpectedly enjoyed it.
The story is graphic, the language of the characters is bad and the characters are colourful beyond belief.
I do, however, feel there is more to this story than the short 'episode' presented in this book. I would love to know how Earth became the dumping ground everyone was trying to escape and another book, depicting stories of the Outer colonies, would be a truly interesting read.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 21, 2018
A Refreshing Take on a Superhero
I've never been especially enamored with superheroes. A few are interesting at first but ultimately go nowhere and quickly become boring to me. Well this book actually is different and has a shot at staying power because the possibilities are almost endless. You see, the main character Captain Eris has a pretty unique superpower - she can't be killed!
Oh she dies alright, but immediately regenerates to live and fight again. In the process she suffers the actual pain of whatever caused her 'death' and the regeneration. I felt some of her 'deaths' were too over the top and not for the squeamish - hence the lower rating than I would otherwise have granted. So be warned, the level of violence against this woman is quite high.
On the plus side Eris would be unique as a main character even without her powers - she's a middle aged woman who looks much younger because of her regeneration. She's mad at the world for what's been done to her. She longs to actually die and stay dead. And she's in love with a robot with artificial intelligence. There's just no other superhero like this.
Hopefully the author will send Captain Eris on some amazing future adventures without going super gross on the violence.
I've never been especially enamored with superheroes. A few are interesting at first but ultimately go nowhere and quickly become boring to me. Well this book actually is different and has a shot at staying power because the possibilities are almost endless. You see, the main character Captain Eris has a pretty unique superpower - she can't be killed!
Oh she dies alright, but immediately regenerates to live and fight again. In the process she suffers the actual pain of whatever caused her 'death' and the regeneration. I felt some of her 'deaths' were too over the top and not for the squeamish - hence the lower rating than I would otherwise have granted. So be warned, the level of violence against this woman is quite high.
On the plus side Eris would be unique as a main character even without her powers - she's a middle aged woman who looks much younger because of her regeneration. She's mad at the world for what's been done to her. She longs to actually die and stay dead. And she's in love with a robot with artificial intelligence. There's just no other superhero like this.
Hopefully the author will send Captain Eris on some amazing future adventures without going super gross on the violence.
September 24, 2018
Sleepy time for Captain Eris is a story about a superhero who gets new super powers every time she dies.
If she gets killed by a bullet, she will revive with stone skin. Swallowing anti freeze will make her immune to poison.
Interesting premise, right? Well that’s about all Sleepy time has going for it.
Because this book is grotesque.
I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Sleepy time got off to a strong start. Captain Eris died in the hands of a robot guy. When she came back to life she had an electric shield. Cool, Sleepy time establishes the characters and situation very quickly. And that’s about the only good thing going for it.
Let’s start with the technical: prose, grammar, typos.
I don’t know if I received the beta version of this book, but the formatting in Sleepy time is an utter train wreck.
“We would have a bit of dialogue
Like this. And then”
“I wouldn’t know who was speaking,”
“When and I got immediately confused.” (This sentence is confusing on purpose.)
The random line returns were super annoying and so were the typos. If this was the retail copy of the book, I would ask for a refund. Typos don’t normally bother me, but this book had so many that I couldn’t ignore them.
Then there was the prose, oh God the prose. Let me give you an example of a description included in this book.
“Keen pulled out a sword. It was engraved with designs and was very shiny.”
SERIOUSLY? What kind of description is that? Did an editor even look at this book?
Sleepy time is written like a copy writer’s wet dream: short sentences, rapid-fire dialogue, bare bone descriptions.
Perfect for speed readers. Awful for people who want more than a marketing blurb in their novels.
“’You’re the one who’s gonna pay!’ He was so drunk that I could target his face with ease. I struck him with a left hook.”
What kind of writing is this? There is no eloquence or rhythm to the wording. The descriptions are so abrupt and banal that I couldn’t visualize the world. I still have no idea what Captain Eris looks like, or her friend Al, or her other friend Om. I can appreciate simple writing, but this is rough draft quality.
Sometimes a poorly executed book redeems itself with awesome characters and a riveting story. Sleepy time is not one of those books.
“No, I know you are a fuckbag, whore, shitstain, on the bottom of the universe's shoe.”
Our main character ladies and gentlemen.
Captain Eris, the female protagonist for our book, is an asshole. She’s vulgar, immature, prone to outbursts, and not fun to read.
Now, I can understand a character going a little insane by dying all the time. I can understand Captain Eris becoming mentally damaged from being immortal and having to live with her mistakes for all eternity. What I don’t understand is why the main character behaves and acts like trailer trash.
She has the maturity of a twelve year old who screams, get emotional, and curses because they haven’t learned to deal with their hormones. She develops feelings for a robot (which doesn’t make any damn sense) and she snorts coke just for the hell of it.
That’s right, our main character likes to indulge in cocaine. However, unlike most well-written novels, Sleepy time allows Captain Eris to use drugs without any consequences. After she does a line of coke in the bathroom, her friend Om says, “Oh my God you’re a druggie.”
And her robot friend Al, the one who loves her, sets Eris down and makes her eat dinner.
That's about it. Eventually the high wears off and everything goes back to normal.
What was the point of showing Eris’s drug use if it didn’t negatively affect her in any way?
Substance abuse is not a joke. Yet, Sleepy time has no problem treating it like one. If it doesn’t affect the plot or change the character, why is it in the book?
At the 50% mark, Sleepy time left me bored enough to skim. The story was about another stupid real estate scheme. You know, the same one that has taken place in TWO Superman movies. Realtors are trying to buy up all the real estate property on Earth at cheap prices so they could re-sell to rich people at expensive prices.
In order to get people to sell, they ship them off to Mars where they promise a cheaper cost of living and a brand new life. Once they arrive on Mars, the bamboozled house sellers eventually fail to pay their bills and end up in labor camps.
I just . . . I’m . . . wow, just wow. The stupidity of this plan left me utterly baffled. We don’t know why they have a work labor camp on Mars. We don’t know why the real estate on Earth is so valuable that the realtors want to kick everyone out. How much does a ticket to Mars cost? The scheme sounds like a logistical nightmare.
These questions should have been answered in the world building of this book, except there was none.
Zero, nothing, nada, zilch.
But where Sleepy time lost me, where it completely jumped the shark and went into filth was when the book dove into torture porn. At the 70% mark of this book, the bad guys capture Eris. Sleepy time quickly devolves from a brainless novel, to a disgusting indulgence in torture porn. The villains slice Eris with knives, cut her tongue out, and most disgusting of all, pee in her mouth.
If you stopped reading after this point, I don’t blame you. I wanted to stop too.
The most frustrating thing was that the torture scenes felt completely unnecessary.
Captain Eris didn’t change. She didn't even have to chug mouthwash to get the taste out of her mouth.
In fact, after a few pages, Eris acts like nothing even happened. The torture doesn't come up again and everyone continues on with their lives. But the reader has to sit through it and picture those disgusting details in their mind with no pay off at the end. It’s one thing to see a character bounce back after a traumatic experience. To see them fight to regain control of their lives. Sleepy time completely misses this point and favors shock value over literary value.
There is no theme, no moral lesson, and it even fails at being a power fantasy.
Ultimately, Sleepy time for Captain Eris has no pay off.
After reading this book you will walk away feeling like you have wasted your time. I don’t understand how reviewers left 4 or 5 stars for this novel. This is not a good book and it certainly doesn’t deserve 5 stars.
Sleepy time for Captain Eris is supposed to be a story about superheroes. But there’s nothing super or heroic about Captain Eris.
2 out of 5 stars.
If she gets killed by a bullet, she will revive with stone skin. Swallowing anti freeze will make her immune to poison.
Interesting premise, right? Well that’s about all Sleepy time has going for it.
Because this book is grotesque.
I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Sleepy time got off to a strong start. Captain Eris died in the hands of a robot guy. When she came back to life she had an electric shield. Cool, Sleepy time establishes the characters and situation very quickly. And that’s about the only good thing going for it.
Let’s start with the technical: prose, grammar, typos.
I don’t know if I received the beta version of this book, but the formatting in Sleepy time is an utter train wreck.
“We would have a bit of dialogue
Like this. And then”
“I wouldn’t know who was speaking,”
“When and I got immediately confused.” (This sentence is confusing on purpose.)
The random line returns were super annoying and so were the typos. If this was the retail copy of the book, I would ask for a refund. Typos don’t normally bother me, but this book had so many that I couldn’t ignore them.
Then there was the prose, oh God the prose. Let me give you an example of a description included in this book.
“Keen pulled out a sword. It was engraved with designs and was very shiny.”
SERIOUSLY? What kind of description is that? Did an editor even look at this book?
Sleepy time is written like a copy writer’s wet dream: short sentences, rapid-fire dialogue, bare bone descriptions.
Perfect for speed readers. Awful for people who want more than a marketing blurb in their novels.
“’You’re the one who’s gonna pay!’ He was so drunk that I could target his face with ease. I struck him with a left hook.”
What kind of writing is this? There is no eloquence or rhythm to the wording. The descriptions are so abrupt and banal that I couldn’t visualize the world. I still have no idea what Captain Eris looks like, or her friend Al, or her other friend Om. I can appreciate simple writing, but this is rough draft quality.
Sometimes a poorly executed book redeems itself with awesome characters and a riveting story. Sleepy time is not one of those books.
“No, I know you are a fuckbag, whore, shitstain, on the bottom of the universe's shoe.”
Our main character ladies and gentlemen.
Captain Eris, the female protagonist for our book, is an asshole. She’s vulgar, immature, prone to outbursts, and not fun to read.
Now, I can understand a character going a little insane by dying all the time. I can understand Captain Eris becoming mentally damaged from being immortal and having to live with her mistakes for all eternity. What I don’t understand is why the main character behaves and acts like trailer trash.
She has the maturity of a twelve year old who screams, get emotional, and curses because they haven’t learned to deal with their hormones. She develops feelings for a robot (which doesn’t make any damn sense) and she snorts coke just for the hell of it.
That’s right, our main character likes to indulge in cocaine. However, unlike most well-written novels, Sleepy time allows Captain Eris to use drugs without any consequences. After she does a line of coke in the bathroom, her friend Om says, “Oh my God you’re a druggie.”
And her robot friend Al, the one who loves her, sets Eris down and makes her eat dinner.
That's about it. Eventually the high wears off and everything goes back to normal.
What was the point of showing Eris’s drug use if it didn’t negatively affect her in any way?
Substance abuse is not a joke. Yet, Sleepy time has no problem treating it like one. If it doesn’t affect the plot or change the character, why is it in the book?
At the 50% mark, Sleepy time left me bored enough to skim. The story was about another stupid real estate scheme. You know, the same one that has taken place in TWO Superman movies. Realtors are trying to buy up all the real estate property on Earth at cheap prices so they could re-sell to rich people at expensive prices.
In order to get people to sell, they ship them off to Mars where they promise a cheaper cost of living and a brand new life. Once they arrive on Mars, the bamboozled house sellers eventually fail to pay their bills and end up in labor camps.
I just . . . I’m . . . wow, just wow. The stupidity of this plan left me utterly baffled. We don’t know why they have a work labor camp on Mars. We don’t know why the real estate on Earth is so valuable that the realtors want to kick everyone out. How much does a ticket to Mars cost? The scheme sounds like a logistical nightmare.
These questions should have been answered in the world building of this book, except there was none.
Zero, nothing, nada, zilch.
But where Sleepy time lost me, where it completely jumped the shark and went into filth was when the book dove into torture porn. At the 70% mark of this book, the bad guys capture Eris. Sleepy time quickly devolves from a brainless novel, to a disgusting indulgence in torture porn. The villains slice Eris with knives, cut her tongue out, and most disgusting of all, pee in her mouth.
If you stopped reading after this point, I don’t blame you. I wanted to stop too.
The most frustrating thing was that the torture scenes felt completely unnecessary.
Captain Eris didn’t change. She didn't even have to chug mouthwash to get the taste out of her mouth.
In fact, after a few pages, Eris acts like nothing even happened. The torture doesn't come up again and everyone continues on with their lives. But the reader has to sit through it and picture those disgusting details in their mind with no pay off at the end. It’s one thing to see a character bounce back after a traumatic experience. To see them fight to regain control of their lives. Sleepy time completely misses this point and favors shock value over literary value.
There is no theme, no moral lesson, and it even fails at being a power fantasy.
Ultimately, Sleepy time for Captain Eris has no pay off.
After reading this book you will walk away feeling like you have wasted your time. I don’t understand how reviewers left 4 or 5 stars for this novel. This is not a good book and it certainly doesn’t deserve 5 stars.
Sleepy time for Captain Eris is supposed to be a story about superheroes. But there’s nothing super or heroic about Captain Eris.
2 out of 5 stars.
April 25, 2018
Okay, I am biased. I can't really review this. But you may find it cool.
July 9, 2018
Sleepy Time For Captain Eris by Margret Treiber started on a slow note for me, especially, as I’m not much into science-fiction or fantasy, but there I was…halfway through the first chapter…and whoa! how it just grabbed me in. I was unable to put it down after that and finished it in one sitting.
Captain Eris, the Death Engine has unique superhero powers: she cannot die because of some DNA tweaks done to her and is enjoying a leisurely life with her cat in a retirement trailer, hoping to die of old age. But her dream is shattered after she’s pulled back out of her retirement and is forced exploitation once again at the hand of her old enemy, Keen. With the help of her old friend Al and a 20-something tweak woman, Om, she sets on to unravels a dark plot against humanity.
Despite her undying powers, Eris has no immunity against pain and suffers terribly every time her body tries to do the actual dying. Eris’s enemies use her weakness to torture her out of her wits every time they are able to lay hands on her. I actually had to skim quickly through few such parts because of my inability to read about extremely violent acts (although, the violence is not something that could be called forced. Rather it’s is an essential part of the story because of the unique plot).
The book talks about the future where Mars and other outer planets are habitable for humans. The grey, dim view that Treiber takes of the earth’s condition in the story is something not too far-fetched and awakens the need to preserve earth’s resources in readers’ mind before the damage becomes irrevocable. The author has done a nice job of blending the fantasy into possible reality.
I found the three protagonists: Eris, Al and Om quite likable. Al is artificial intelligence, a robot and despite that you come to love him quite early in the story. Om is young, tough and very sweet. Eris is foul-mouthed and yet, completely adorable. The agony she has to go through all the times make you feel deeply for her. The other characters are secondary. Despite a deadly plot against humankind, there is no major villain/s in the story.
The pace is fast after an initial slow beginning. The plot is tight and ending is lovely. The only thing that bothered me is the hasty ending. The ending, in itself, is good, but there is a fast buildup toward what is supposed to be major villainous plot in the story and a solution is provided quickly. A little deeper exploration of the issue would have added a nice touch to the ending.
The other small thing is title of the book. The book deserves a better title. I'm a blurb person: I usually don't look at the cover or the title but many readers do that and the title/book cover doesn't do justice to the story. Other than that it is an endearing read.
I can see the book turning into a nice movie: the plot is perfect for big screen adaptation!
Highly recommended to all the science fiction and fantasy lovers! I will look forward to reading author’s upcoming books.
Captain Eris, the Death Engine has unique superhero powers: she cannot die because of some DNA tweaks done to her and is enjoying a leisurely life with her cat in a retirement trailer, hoping to die of old age. But her dream is shattered after she’s pulled back out of her retirement and is forced exploitation once again at the hand of her old enemy, Keen. With the help of her old friend Al and a 20-something tweak woman, Om, she sets on to unravels a dark plot against humanity.
Despite her undying powers, Eris has no immunity against pain and suffers terribly every time her body tries to do the actual dying. Eris’s enemies use her weakness to torture her out of her wits every time they are able to lay hands on her. I actually had to skim quickly through few such parts because of my inability to read about extremely violent acts (although, the violence is not something that could be called forced. Rather it’s is an essential part of the story because of the unique plot).
The book talks about the future where Mars and other outer planets are habitable for humans. The grey, dim view that Treiber takes of the earth’s condition in the story is something not too far-fetched and awakens the need to preserve earth’s resources in readers’ mind before the damage becomes irrevocable. The author has done a nice job of blending the fantasy into possible reality.
I found the three protagonists: Eris, Al and Om quite likable. Al is artificial intelligence, a robot and despite that you come to love him quite early in the story. Om is young, tough and very sweet. Eris is foul-mouthed and yet, completely adorable. The agony she has to go through all the times make you feel deeply for her. The other characters are secondary. Despite a deadly plot against humankind, there is no major villain/s in the story.
The pace is fast after an initial slow beginning. The plot is tight and ending is lovely. The only thing that bothered me is the hasty ending. The ending, in itself, is good, but there is a fast buildup toward what is supposed to be major villainous plot in the story and a solution is provided quickly. A little deeper exploration of the issue would have added a nice touch to the ending.
The other small thing is title of the book. The book deserves a better title. I'm a blurb person: I usually don't look at the cover or the title but many readers do that and the title/book cover doesn't do justice to the story. Other than that it is an endearing read.
I can see the book turning into a nice movie: the plot is perfect for big screen adaptation!
Highly recommended to all the science fiction and fantasy lovers! I will look forward to reading author’s upcoming books.
March 13, 2019
Margret A. Treiber’s Sleepy Time for Captain Eris was an interesting take on superheroes. Set in the future, Captain Eris is the result of genetic modification. Her power is the ability to come back from death and in part of doing so, inherits different abilities to protect her from what killed her in the first place.
Unlike traditional super hero stories, Sleepy Time for Captain Eris is no campy story. There is a good amount of blood, gore, and violence. While others may be offended by this, I think there are necessary components to help tell the story and move it forward. I appreciate the author not detracting from the story she wants to tell for fear of bothering others appetites for watered down material.
Set as first person, much of the story is filled with sassy dialogue and the characters picking on each other. While I found the interactions fun, at times I felt like I wanted more detail in the story. There seems to be a fine line of too much detail or too little. In this story’s case, I felt it bordered on the too little detail category.
All in all, I think this was a fun read and I hope the author continues delving into Captain Eris’ adventures!
Unlike traditional super hero stories, Sleepy Time for Captain Eris is no campy story. There is a good amount of blood, gore, and violence. While others may be offended by this, I think there are necessary components to help tell the story and move it forward. I appreciate the author not detracting from the story she wants to tell for fear of bothering others appetites for watered down material.
Set as first person, much of the story is filled with sassy dialogue and the characters picking on each other. While I found the interactions fun, at times I felt like I wanted more detail in the story. There seems to be a fine line of too much detail or too little. In this story’s case, I felt it bordered on the too little detail category.
All in all, I think this was a fun read and I hope the author continues delving into Captain Eris’ adventures!
September 16, 2018
Violent with strong language and a lot of death. Captain Eris otherwise known as the death engine, has been used and abused. Brought back she faces another mission of death and destruction. I don’t think I’ve ever wished for someone to die so much, those were some brutal ways to die. I liked the relationship with Al and the little family. Death was a bit of a jerk. Fast paced, fun and completely wacky story.
September 3, 2021
Sleepy Time For Captain Eris by Margret A. Treiber is an intriguing sci fi book. The beginning drew me in and the rest was engaging and interesting. The story, the characters and ... well, everything in this book is unique.
September 21, 2021
Fantasy and adventure. This is how I can describe this book. The plot is so unique and compelling that I read it in one breath. There is no comparison with ordinary superhero stories. This one is so descriptive and there is no unnecessary fluff. I loved it! I recommend it.
November 17, 2023
Fun and interesting cyberpunk book about a geneticly modified woman who can't die. Eris creates a found family and investigates a planet wide conspiracy, while being killed and coming back with various powers over and over.
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