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Shadowrun Novels #65
Shadowrun: Identity: Crisis
AN ENTIRE LIFE…
Oliver Martin had it a beautiful fiancée and a great job at a corp he helped build—a perfect life. But one morning, he wakes up to discover he no longer exists...anywhere. Oliver no longer has a job, a SIN, bank accounts, or even a place to live in his hometown of Boston. He’s been wiped from the Matrix entirely, and a new identity has replaced his own. Only this one’s on Lone Star’s Most Wanted List, and Oliver’s usual morning meeting with the company he’s been at for fourteen years turns into the first run of his life.
For his life.
Boston’s mean streets hold the keys to Oliver’s fight to reclaim himself and discover who’s behind his redacted identity. Allying with a shadowrunner team that saves him proves to be the vehicle he needs to uncover a conspiracy within the halls of MIT&T that could bring down the corporate walls of Boston—and create more vanished innocents caught in an algorithm of greed.
Oliver Martin had it a beautiful fiancée and a great job at a corp he helped build—a perfect life. But one morning, he wakes up to discover he no longer exists...anywhere. Oliver no longer has a job, a SIN, bank accounts, or even a place to live in his hometown of Boston. He’s been wiped from the Matrix entirely, and a new identity has replaced his own. Only this one’s on Lone Star’s Most Wanted List, and Oliver’s usual morning meeting with the company he’s been at for fourteen years turns into the first run of his life.
For his life.
Boston’s mean streets hold the keys to Oliver’s fight to reclaim himself and discover who’s behind his redacted identity. Allying with a shadowrunner team that saves him proves to be the vehicle he needs to uncover a conspiracy within the halls of MIT&T that could bring down the corporate walls of Boston—and create more vanished innocents caught in an algorithm of greed.
270 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 22, 2020
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About the author
Phaedra Weldon
155 books364 followersSometimes credited as Phaedra M. Weldon.
Born in Pensacola, Florida, Phaedra is the eldest of four children. She began writing in notebooks with her best friend in middle school.
After leaving college for a job in the Graphic Arts industry, Phaedra continued her love of writing in her spare time and was lucky enough at a writer's conference to meet Dean Wesley Smith, who later became her writing mentor, along with his wife, the bestselling mystery/fantasy/romance/science fiction writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Phaedra lives in Atlanta, Georgia. When not writing, she and her daughter spend their time playing games, letterboxing, or watching anime.
Series:
* Zoe Martinique
Born in Pensacola, Florida, Phaedra is the eldest of four children. She began writing in notebooks with her best friend in middle school.
After leaving college for a job in the Graphic Arts industry, Phaedra continued her love of writing in her spare time and was lucky enough at a writer's conference to meet Dean Wesley Smith, who later became her writing mentor, along with his wife, the bestselling mystery/fantasy/romance/science fiction writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Phaedra lives in Atlanta, Georgia. When not writing, she and her daughter spend their time playing games, letterboxing, or watching anime.
Series:
* Zoe Martinique
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October 27, 2020
Ah, your favorite review chummer from the Shadows has completed another great book from the minds at Catalyst Game Labs. This time I am taking on Identity: Crisis by Phaedra Weldon. The last time we read Ms. Weldon, it was the amazing tale Dark Resonance which I still consider the best book since Catalyst took over the Shadowrun novel business. Let's hope she hits it out of the park on her sophomore effort for the brand.
Identity: Crisis is the story of Oliver Martin, who has a great job at a corp that he helped to found. He has developed a very important application known as Ghost7 that will make the corporation a bundle of money. He has a beautiful wife, a great best friend, and for all practical purposes, the perfect life. Then one day, that life is ripped from him and he ends up with no identity, no money, or even a place to live. He then finds himself on the wrong end of the law and has to partner with a shadowrunning team to attempt to get his life back.
Oliver Martin, or rather Crisis as he will soon become known undergoes a fantastic transformation from wageslave to a deadly assassin capable of hanging with the best shadowrunners in the business. The tale is incredibly thrilling and doesn't pull any punches. Furthermore, the reader should be prepared to know that this isn't a cyberpunk fairytale but a genuine Shadowrun story which means the ending is absolutely appropriate given the circumstances.
On the flip side, I do feel the ending was a tiny bit rushed. The actual story is only 244 pages long (there is a sneak peak of 20 pages for the next SR book.), so it goes by very quickly and that is what really kept it from coming up to the level of Dark Resonance. Everything else is great though, from the characters to the environment to explaining motivations and how we got to this very point in the tale.
Identity: Crisis is a great book, I would probably put it in the 2nd half of a top 10 list of Shadowrun stories for sure. Weldon delivers again and only the length of the book is its downfall. I wanted more, it needed more but heck if it is not a fantastic ride in the process. I certainly give this book a hearty recommendation and one that any Shadowrun fan should be interested in. Enjoy.
Identity: Crisis is the story of Oliver Martin, who has a great job at a corp that he helped to found. He has developed a very important application known as Ghost7 that will make the corporation a bundle of money. He has a beautiful wife, a great best friend, and for all practical purposes, the perfect life. Then one day, that life is ripped from him and he ends up with no identity, no money, or even a place to live. He then finds himself on the wrong end of the law and has to partner with a shadowrunning team to attempt to get his life back.
Oliver Martin, or rather Crisis as he will soon become known undergoes a fantastic transformation from wageslave to a deadly assassin capable of hanging with the best shadowrunners in the business. The tale is incredibly thrilling and doesn't pull any punches. Furthermore, the reader should be prepared to know that this isn't a cyberpunk fairytale but a genuine Shadowrun story which means the ending is absolutely appropriate given the circumstances.
On the flip side, I do feel the ending was a tiny bit rushed. The actual story is only 244 pages long (there is a sneak peak of 20 pages for the next SR book.), so it goes by very quickly and that is what really kept it from coming up to the level of Dark Resonance. Everything else is great though, from the characters to the environment to explaining motivations and how we got to this very point in the tale.
Identity: Crisis is a great book, I would probably put it in the 2nd half of a top 10 list of Shadowrun stories for sure. Weldon delivers again and only the length of the book is its downfall. I wanted more, it needed more but heck if it is not a fantastic ride in the process. I certainly give this book a hearty recommendation and one that any Shadowrun fan should be interested in. Enjoy.
February 22, 2021
I enjoyed this book, despite some foibles. It begins as a classic "who am I" where the protagonist has lost their memory, but rapidly becomes much less imaginative. Which would be fine, but in the final 30 pages the who plot comes off the rails and cartwheels in unexpected directions ... which is the same issue I had with Weldon's previous Shadowrun novella - an interesting start and a unhinged finish.
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