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Star Smuggler #1
The Last Voyage
He's a criminal. She's far from it. Together, they’re Earth's last hope... they just don’t know it yet. Sinbad sh'en Singh had everything. A thriving smuggling career, his hologram on wanted posters on eleven planets, and plenty of women. Then she walked into his life. Andrea Talltrees, member of a backwards cult not believing in space travel or anything else invented after the Twentieth Century. She wants him to find her husband, a fugitive accused of being an Albegensian spy, the planet currently at war with Earth. He doesn’t want anything to do with an Earther, but a massive culture clash and a heavy dose of instant attraction get in the way, sending good sense flying out the viewport. They'll brave some very unsavory characters, maybe even prevent a second interplanetary war...if they can stop arguing. It's Star Wars meets Firefly in this exciting space opera thrill ride that doesn't let up. Pick up your copy today and join the adventure.
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390 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2016
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About the author
T.S. Snow
22 books7 followersT.S. Snow is a pseudonym of author Toni V. Sweeney, who has lived 30 years in the South, a score in the Middle West, and a decade on the Pacific Coast and is now trying for her second 30 on the Great Plains.
Since the publication of her first novel in 1989, she divides her time between writing Fantasy/Horror under her own name and SciFi/SpaceOpera/Romance under her pen name.
Since the publication of her first novel in 1989, she divides her time between writing Fantasy/Horror under her own name and SciFi/SpaceOpera/Romance under her pen name.
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January 10, 2021Not quite what I was expecting. The woman was rude and ungrateful.Sin was lovely, but there was very little meat to the story. If anything, it read like a cheap 1950s western, updated to SF with the usual overdone tropes of real paper books and a love of ancient orchestral music. All in all a bit thin and without any substance.
July 30, 2020
I’ve read a lot of this author’s novels and rarely is it possible to predict how they will turn out or evolve (even though about twenty pages in or so I always think I can). This one is no exception, so I have to be very careful not to give too much away. First off, let me say The Last Voyage: Star Smuggler Book 1 is a great action orientated sci-fi (initially at least) which doesn’t take long at all to get started and then immediately raises the stakes. Andrea Talltrees (Andi) naïve, insular and belonging to an Amish-like group, is a very useful protagonist for as she learns about her strange new world/ universe as the reader does as she teams up with Sinbad sh'en Singh (Sin) a roughish, cat like antihero and takes off on a quest to save her husband.
Yet is it not until the mid-point that Andi talks about what her husband is like and their history together. This speaks volumes about where the heart of the story lies, the evolving relationship between two seemingly ill matched protagonists. When Sinbad is injured (and he does suffer physically quite a lot in this tale) and Andi realises he is only 28, younger than her but also in many ways much older, the story stars to unfold in a much deeper way.
As I said, I have to be careful in this review not to give spoilers but in contrast to the adventure based first half or so of the novel, the second part is more introspective with some very serious moral questions to be considered. If I had to break it down, I would say that the story has the feel of several genres blended together (no surprise as this author has written in almost every genre I can think of). The first part is almost purely a western, the next action sci-fi which seems to evolve into a fantasy quest and finally it becomes a human (or not so human in this case) drama.
An easy 5 stars. A great read.
Yet is it not until the mid-point that Andi talks about what her husband is like and their history together. This speaks volumes about where the heart of the story lies, the evolving relationship between two seemingly ill matched protagonists. When Sinbad is injured (and he does suffer physically quite a lot in this tale) and Andi realises he is only 28, younger than her but also in many ways much older, the story stars to unfold in a much deeper way.
As I said, I have to be careful in this review not to give spoilers but in contrast to the adventure based first half or so of the novel, the second part is more introspective with some very serious moral questions to be considered. If I had to break it down, I would say that the story has the feel of several genres blended together (no surprise as this author has written in almost every genre I can think of). The first part is almost purely a western, the next action sci-fi which seems to evolve into a fantasy quest and finally it becomes a human (or not so human in this case) drama.
An easy 5 stars. A great read.
September 24, 2020
Star Wars meets Firefly in Star Smuggler: The Last Voyage, a May 2020 release by Aethon Books
He's a criminal. She's far from it. Together, they’re Earth's last hope... they just don’t know it yet.
Sinbad sh'en Singh had everything. A thriving smuggling career, his hologram on wanted posters on eleven planets, and plenty of women. Then she walked into his life.
Andrea Talltrees, member of a backwards cult not believing in space travel or anything else invented after the Twentieth Century. She wants him to find her husband, a fugitive accused of being an Albegensian spy, the planet currently at war with Earth.
He doesn’t want anything to do with an Earther, but a massive culture clash and a heavy dose of instant attraction get in the way, sending good sense flying out the viewport.
They'll brave some very unsavory characters, maybe even prevent a second interplanetary war...if they can stop arguing.
Our Review:
Sinbad sh'en Singh is the quintessential anti-hero: bold, brash and a devil inside or out of his airship. Andi Talltrees is brave and fearless, committed to home, hearth and the Naturals culture. When the chips are down and she must find her husband, she leaves home and hearth and often forgoes cultural mores in order to survive.
Funny how near death experiences, one after another, shows a woman—or a man—what's worth fighting for.
This sci-fi adventure will keep you turning the pages—it's that good. At times funny, then frightening, it is a heart warming experience. Give yourself a gift by picking this one up. It's a wonder.
On a scale of 1-5, Star Smuggler: The Last Voyage deserves a 7.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
He's a criminal. She's far from it. Together, they’re Earth's last hope... they just don’t know it yet.
Sinbad sh'en Singh had everything. A thriving smuggling career, his hologram on wanted posters on eleven planets, and plenty of women. Then she walked into his life.
Andrea Talltrees, member of a backwards cult not believing in space travel or anything else invented after the Twentieth Century. She wants him to find her husband, a fugitive accused of being an Albegensian spy, the planet currently at war with Earth.
He doesn’t want anything to do with an Earther, but a massive culture clash and a heavy dose of instant attraction get in the way, sending good sense flying out the viewport.
They'll brave some very unsavory characters, maybe even prevent a second interplanetary war...if they can stop arguing.
Our Review:
Sinbad sh'en Singh is the quintessential anti-hero: bold, brash and a devil inside or out of his airship. Andi Talltrees is brave and fearless, committed to home, hearth and the Naturals culture. When the chips are down and she must find her husband, she leaves home and hearth and often forgoes cultural mores in order to survive.
Funny how near death experiences, one after another, shows a woman—or a man—what's worth fighting for.
This sci-fi adventure will keep you turning the pages—it's that good. At times funny, then frightening, it is a heart warming experience. Give yourself a gift by picking this one up. It's a wonder.
On a scale of 1-5, Star Smuggler: The Last Voyage deserves a 7.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
September 24, 2020
The Last Voyage is the first book in the Star Smuggler series, and so compelling I look forward whatever follows. The two main characters, pre-technology traditionalist Andrea (Andi), and space smuggler Sinbad, are richly depicted and unforgettable. When she gets words that her husband has fled the Earth ahead of treason charges, the rather prim Andi seeks to rescue him by engaging the services of Sinbad, an unsavory, well-armed, spaceship-wielding hybrid man-cat who embodies the highest levels of both offensiveness and charisma.
As the two pursue this illegal business transaction, the well-executed romance meme of the novel comes to the fore, punctuated by surprises and plot twists. Andi and Sinbad fight through cultural and personality clashes, flee for their lives, and eventually succumb to their repressed mutual attraction across various well-drawn settings: a future Earth, a social system adhering to non-technological ways, dangerous planets visited by the two on the run. All aspects of this novel contribute to a believable world-building and a solid foundation for future books in the series. It will be very interesting to see how these coming stories will evolve, since some of the plot near the end of The Last Voyage would seem to indicate that a continuation can’t be very likely! Yet, having faith in the author’s creativity, I believe something quite startling will develop.
Review by Michael D. Smith
As the two pursue this illegal business transaction, the well-executed romance meme of the novel comes to the fore, punctuated by surprises and plot twists. Andi and Sinbad fight through cultural and personality clashes, flee for their lives, and eventually succumb to their repressed mutual attraction across various well-drawn settings: a future Earth, a social system adhering to non-technological ways, dangerous planets visited by the two on the run. All aspects of this novel contribute to a believable world-building and a solid foundation for future books in the series. It will be very interesting to see how these coming stories will evolve, since some of the plot near the end of The Last Voyage would seem to indicate that a continuation can’t be very likely! Yet, having faith in the author’s creativity, I believe something quite startling will develop.
Review by Michael D. Smith
August 2, 2020
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"The first man you love, unlike the last, is never the best."
Tran, an Albegeni, had been arrested along with all the others of his nationality on Terra, after an Albergensian warship had fired on, and destroyed, a Terran warship; they were accused of terrorism. Distraught at the loss of her husband, Andrea, a Navajo by birth and a Natural (a way of life similar to that of the present day Amish) by choice, approaches a notorious smuggler and appeals for his help to somehow get her man released, promising a large payment for his services. Reluctantly, he agrees. This is the story of what happens...
Well written, with strong characters which develop slowly and plenty of fast action throughout the book, this is an easy read, in part predictable, but sometimes surprising. Science fiction only in as much as it is futuristic, with flying cars, aliens and interplanetary travel, it has an almost old fashioned adventure thriller feel to the story, Crockodile Dundee without the archaeology.
This is a fun read and I look forward to book two.
"The first man you love, unlike the last, is never the best."
Tran, an Albegeni, had been arrested along with all the others of his nationality on Terra, after an Albergensian warship had fired on, and destroyed, a Terran warship; they were accused of terrorism. Distraught at the loss of her husband, Andrea, a Navajo by birth and a Natural (a way of life similar to that of the present day Amish) by choice, approaches a notorious smuggler and appeals for his help to somehow get her man released, promising a large payment for his services. Reluctantly, he agrees. This is the story of what happens...
Well written, with strong characters which develop slowly and plenty of fast action throughout the book, this is an easy read, in part predictable, but sometimes surprising. Science fiction only in as much as it is futuristic, with flying cars, aliens and interplanetary travel, it has an almost old fashioned adventure thriller feel to the story, Crockodile Dundee without the archaeology.
This is a fun read and I look forward to book two.
August 29, 2020
Harlequin Inter-Species Romance Novel Cloaked As A Space Opera
“The Last Voyage (Star Smuggler Book 1)” is an inter-species Harlequin-esque romance novel cloaked in a threadbare cloak of being a Sci-fi space opera.
Beyond being not this reader’s choice of reading, the main character is a passive-aggressive harpy that engenders no empathy for her plight.
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“The Last Voyage (Star Smuggler Book 1)” is an inter-species Harlequin-esque romance novel cloaked in a threadbare cloak of being a Sci-fi space opera.
Beyond being not this reader’s choice of reading, the main character is a passive-aggressive harpy that engenders no empathy for her plight.
Read via Kindle Unlimited.
January 28, 2021
I really enjoyed reading this book!
My two favorite genres are science fiction and western. I had a sense of both in this book. The primary characters in the book each had their own issues to work through. They came from very different backgrounds, but it seems as if fate has drawn them together. I'm going to start following this writer and look for the next book in the series. I enjoyed it that much!
My two favorite genres are science fiction and western. I had a sense of both in this book. The primary characters in the book each had their own issues to work through. They came from very different backgrounds, but it seems as if fate has drawn them together. I'm going to start following this writer and look for the next book in the series. I enjoyed it that much!
October 15, 2020
Not what I expected
I read/skimmed the first and second book. I am giving it two stars only because the author has some writing skills. The plot was completely sidelined by both sex and repeated pregnancies. I also did not warm to the female lead. Bottom line save you time and find something else to read.
I read/skimmed the first and second book. I am giving it two stars only because the author has some writing skills. The plot was completely sidelined by both sex and repeated pregnancies. I also did not warm to the female lead. Bottom line save you time and find something else to read.
August 2, 2020
Head Turner
Wow a thrilling book that I have just read I did not think I wou!d like it but it sucked me in flung me around and left me wanting more come on down you can not leave now it's just got going
Wow a thrilling book that I have just read I did not think I wou!d like it but it sucked me in flung me around and left me wanting more come on down you can not leave now it's just got going
November 24, 2020
This is one of the most exciting books I have read in ages. There’s non-stop action and adventure, along with a slowly-building romance – all in an intriguing sci-fi universe that I can’t wait to see more of. All in all, an excellent read.
January 5, 2021
Kinda stilted, uninspired but not offensive
I read the whole thing but it bored me, i didn't love it. Thus the 3 stars. Characters were ok but didn't call to me. Plot felt forced with things happening out of the blue, help always just in time.
I read the whole thing but it bored me, i didn't love it. Thus the 3 stars. Characters were ok but didn't call to me. Plot felt forced with things happening out of the blue, help always just in time.
October 8, 2020
A love story adventure
Nice inter species love story wrapped in sf venue. One could see the love between the two coupled with the twist of former husband being the archenemy
Nice inter species love story wrapped in sf venue. One could see the love between the two coupled with the twist of former husband being the archenemy
March 6, 2021
Great Rea
This was A fun book to read! Quality Characters, and a well defined plot. Enjoy a Good Read.
Santa Mike
This was A fun book to read! Quality Characters, and a well defined plot. Enjoy a Good Read.
Santa Mike
March 28, 2021
Great book
I was so surprised at the twist and turns this story has. This book has strong characters, people you like from the start. I loved reading it.
I was so surprised at the twist and turns this story has. This book has strong characters, people you like from the start. I loved reading it.
June 10, 2021
I liked Sin here. He's just so unapologetically himself. Whereas Andi... she just rubs me the wrong way. Maybe because she acts too good to be true?
August 28, 2021
Good sci-fi read
Full of twists to keep your attention. This book has some great characters along with action to keep your interest.
Full of twists to keep your attention. This book has some great characters along with action to keep your interest.
January 22, 2022
Think poorly scripted 70's sci fin and this style make more sense.
March 9, 2023
I found that there were some repetition part. Other than that it is a good bodk.
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