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Starcaster #4
Witch Nebula
On a sunny green world, a little girl watches as meteors fall, bringing death and fire from above.
She isn’t alone. Thorn Stellers is there, watching, unsure of his connection and what he can do to save the child from a fate like his parents, all those years ago.
Reaching across the lightyears, Thorn sets a chain of events into play that will shift reality as he knows it. For this little girl is no ordinary child, and the meteors are no accident.
The Nyctus have targeted her green world for destruction, and the girl along with it.
But they failed.
When the Orbital Navy investigates, they find a web of intrigue surrounding the latest Nyctus weapon known as Skins--stolen humans who have been reprogrammed as spies. The Skins walk among humanity, serve in the navy, and plot, report, and sometimes even kill. They are everywhere, always watching, always waiting.
Kira, Thorn, and the brilliant pilot Mol Wyant, will be pushed to the edge of loyalty and courage as their officers suspect them of the ultimate betrayal. It’s up to them to fight back, prove their accusers wrong, and find the connection to a shattered world where a young girl lifted her hands and kept the fire away.
Experience the exciting fourth act in the ongoing Starcaster series from Terry Maggert and USA Today Bestselling Author J.N. Chaney. If you're a fan of blending scifi with fantasy, you're sure to enjoy this series.
She isn’t alone. Thorn Stellers is there, watching, unsure of his connection and what he can do to save the child from a fate like his parents, all those years ago.
Reaching across the lightyears, Thorn sets a chain of events into play that will shift reality as he knows it. For this little girl is no ordinary child, and the meteors are no accident.
The Nyctus have targeted her green world for destruction, and the girl along with it.
But they failed.
When the Orbital Navy investigates, they find a web of intrigue surrounding the latest Nyctus weapon known as Skins--stolen humans who have been reprogrammed as spies. The Skins walk among humanity, serve in the navy, and plot, report, and sometimes even kill. They are everywhere, always watching, always waiting.
Kira, Thorn, and the brilliant pilot Mol Wyant, will be pushed to the edge of loyalty and courage as their officers suspect them of the ultimate betrayal. It’s up to them to fight back, prove their accusers wrong, and find the connection to a shattered world where a young girl lifted her hands and kept the fire away.
Experience the exciting fourth act in the ongoing Starcaster series from Terry Maggert and USA Today Bestselling Author J.N. Chaney. If you're a fan of blending scifi with fantasy, you're sure to enjoy this series.
- GenresScience FictionFantasy
394 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 27, 2020
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January 31, 2023
Great story continues, BUT......
Right of the bat, I have to say, stop ripping me so unlikely out of a fantastic story!! Maybe writing a story by two authors is not such a good idea, especially when neither can remember what the other has written in the first book , how he specifically described the characters and the situation they are in - and the forget that? Or when you drag us along by the hair somtimes, to inform the reader making us pay attention to the story you are telling us, the foundation in book one. about we understand of events and how they transpired
Great story so far. Well told except I keep running into inconsistencies in every book. Very frustrating when you are all wrapped up the story and get torn out of it because of blaring inconsistencies. The problems are with the foundation built into the story at the beginning. Worldbuilding and character development and they'd background story is what carries a good story from book one onto the next book through the series. If the foundation is suddenly changed because the writer has forgotten the details given to us at the beginning of this story.
In every book the background of the main characters suddenly change. There are egregious mistakea, inconsistencies with Kira and Thor's character build we were given in book one. Kids is ten and Thor is 14 years old. Their world was turned into dust by the Squids and both have lost everything, family home, everything. They then end up in the same children's home.
This was made very clear at the beginning. Yet in every succession this part is changed to fit something traumatic, or because we have two authors who can't remember what the other had written previously. The changes are that blaring it just rips you right out of the story. Frustrating! And it doesn't just happen with the background story of the characters, this is happening with important parts, events that just happened in the previous book. It disrupts the flow. The story changes from book to next book, writers already forgotten what they told us in the previous book?? An editor should have caught these problems, they are very obvious.
Channey and Marggert, please fix your books! All of them. Figures the easiest - read yourbooks, you will do d the mistakes!
It is a shame, but also incredibly aggravating, especially when the story is that exciting. I feel like I been slapped in the face with a set washrag! Please fix these discrepancies! Because it's happen in in book 4 and at the beginning no less! Makes me shout out loud, "That's not correct, darn!!!!
Hey
Right of the bat, I have to say, stop ripping me so unlikely out of a fantastic story!! Maybe writing a story by two authors is not such a good idea, especially when neither can remember what the other has written in the first book , how he specifically described the characters and the situation they are in - and the forget that? Or when you drag us along by the hair somtimes, to inform the reader making us pay attention to the story you are telling us, the foundation in book one. about we understand of events and how they transpired
Great story so far. Well told except I keep running into inconsistencies in every book. Very frustrating when you are all wrapped up the story and get torn out of it because of blaring inconsistencies. The problems are with the foundation built into the story at the beginning. Worldbuilding and character development and they'd background story is what carries a good story from book one onto the next book through the series. If the foundation is suddenly changed because the writer has forgotten the details given to us at the beginning of this story.
In every book the background of the main characters suddenly change. There are egregious mistakea, inconsistencies with Kira and Thor's character build we were given in book one. Kids is ten and Thor is 14 years old. Their world was turned into dust by the Squids and both have lost everything, family home, everything. They then end up in the same children's home.
This was made very clear at the beginning. Yet in every succession this part is changed to fit something traumatic, or because we have two authors who can't remember what the other had written previously. The changes are that blaring it just rips you right out of the story. Frustrating! And it doesn't just happen with the background story of the characters, this is happening with important parts, events that just happened in the previous book. It disrupts the flow. The story changes from book to next book, writers already forgotten what they told us in the previous book?? An editor should have caught these problems, they are very obvious.
Channey and Marggert, please fix your books! All of them. Figures the easiest - read yourbooks, you will do d the mistakes!
It is a shame, but also incredibly aggravating, especially when the story is that exciting. I feel like I been slapped in the face with a set washrag! Please fix these discrepancies! Because it's happen in in book 4 and at the beginning no less! Makes me shout out loud, "That's not correct, darn!!!!
Hey
January 5, 2021
A family rent asunder.
Thorn is a Starcaster, the strongest in the ON. When the Nyctus destroy Nebo they did it to destroy Morgan, a special little girl. When she died, every starcaster in the fleet felt it, saw it and experienced it. Thorn only found out later that the mind they all touched belonged to Morgan, the daughter he didn’t know he had. Once he found out he took his vast strength and decided to bring Nebo, and therefore Morgan, back from the dead. But in his hubris he decided that Morgan would be better off not being Starcaster and tried to change her. Morgan realised what he was trying to do and asked him to stop, that he was doing it wrong. Thorn didn’t realise why he couldn’t bring her back, that she had pulled away from him. He only thought that he had failed and it led to him losing touch with his magic, to the detriment of his ship and shipmates.
Morgan has found a refuge but is still trying to understand why her father/daddy did what he did. He must be very bad and must therefore be punished! But a small child with enormous power is not someone who can be left to rule the universe around her.
This book is very dark and introspective but suggests that the Nyctus are in for a very big shock in the future. Now they have got more than one tiger by the tail!
Thorn is a Starcaster, the strongest in the ON. When the Nyctus destroy Nebo they did it to destroy Morgan, a special little girl. When she died, every starcaster in the fleet felt it, saw it and experienced it. Thorn only found out later that the mind they all touched belonged to Morgan, the daughter he didn’t know he had. Once he found out he took his vast strength and decided to bring Nebo, and therefore Morgan, back from the dead. But in his hubris he decided that Morgan would be better off not being Starcaster and tried to change her. Morgan realised what he was trying to do and asked him to stop, that he was doing it wrong. Thorn didn’t realise why he couldn’t bring her back, that she had pulled away from him. He only thought that he had failed and it led to him losing touch with his magic, to the detriment of his ship and shipmates.
Morgan has found a refuge but is still trying to understand why her father/daddy did what he did. He must be very bad and must therefore be punished! But a small child with enormous power is not someone who can be left to rule the universe around her.
This book is very dark and introspective but suggests that the Nyctus are in for a very big shock in the future. Now they have got more than one tiger by the tail!
July 23, 2023
And this is the book that makes me end my effort to read the whole series. Why? The kid. The whole addition and problems it creates just ruins what was a great story about an interesting hero. But this ruined it. Poor choice. And now I’m done.
Seriously? Who wants to read a poorly written whiney 6-8yo with unlimited cosmic powers. Most authors really fail to write kids well, period. The addition of them should be seriously second-guessed when an author has the idea- what if I added a child. Yeah, destroy my awesome hero sci-fi with by sending me to preschool.
They had so much material and plot going for them, just sad. Ran it into the ground.
Seriously? Who wants to read a poorly written whiney 6-8yo with unlimited cosmic powers. Most authors really fail to write kids well, period. The addition of them should be seriously second-guessed when an author has the idea- what if I added a child. Yeah, destroy my awesome hero sci-fi with by sending me to preschool.
They had so much material and plot going for them, just sad. Ran it into the ground.
February 6, 2021
I have been a Chaney fan for a long time, read most of his series but I must say this one is the best yet. I like the characters, the locations (mostly warships) and the unique plot twists. The authors have set up a real challenge for the good guys to overcome, can't wait for the next book in this series
December 29, 2020
Volume four and excited for more!
Another great continuation of the Starcaster series. This volume takes the characters places I never expected and left me impatient for the next installment. Definitely worth a read.
Another great continuation of the Starcaster series. This volume takes the characters places I never expected and left me impatient for the next installment. Definitely worth a read.
March 12, 2021
A surprise for thorn
A surprise for thorn and well sssh John you will give the plot away. Go out get the book and read it you will enjoy and be glad you did
A surprise for thorn and well sssh John you will give the plot away. Go out get the book and read it you will enjoy and be glad you did
March 8, 2022
Not as good as others in series. I found it mired in confusing realities and unfinished worlds. The diplomatic mission was even worse.
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