Blue, unnatural, symbols which shifted beneath her skin, had been one indication for Angel that she was different. Changing irises was another, but not being able to get insight from her parents as to why, left Angel clueless about her abnormalities.
Now that her father is gone, leaving her an orphan, it forces her to remember a promise she'd once made to her grandfather as a child; never stop searching.
Retracing her father's steps, she searches for the place that wiped out their entire family: Orin.
It's not my cup of tea but it's interesting. If you like or think you might like science fantasy romance, it might be just the ticket. It reminded of Kage Baker and her "Company" universe.
The background is much more sweeping in both space and time than the Baker series. A setting that involves multiple galaxies is just too difficult to envision and the muddle of the writer's vision has always been obvious in every book that I've read with that kind of background. One entire galaxy is too much for most writers, which shows up in Dune and The Foundation even. There are always cracks in the picture.
This book handles that backdrop well enough but as fantasy romance not as science fiction. The characters are romance robust, not well developed science fiction or with historical fiction depth or mainstream completeness. Then again these stories aren't fairly judged by mainstream standards. It was entertaining in a way but I'm not a romance reader. I'm so bad with it, that I even had a little trouble with some of Kage Baker, Octavia Butler and other really good science fiction writers. If my head is in a different place, I might look at the rest of the series sometime.