Genre theme time! Normally I don't stick to one genre, but I feel inspired.
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Genre: Science Fiction
Series: The Expanse, book 1
Humanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach.
Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for - and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.
Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.
Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations - and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.
This book and series has been in the back of my brain and I decided I wanted it! It's supposed to be a genre blend of epic Space Opera and awesome mystery novel. There's other things in that blend too. it all sounds great.
So imagine my surprise when after this post I actually found a copy of this book at my local thrift store! It was meant to be.
Shades of Treason by Sandy Williams
Genre: Science Fiction
Series: Anomaly, book 1
Ash would have given her life to save her teammates.
Instead, they gave their lives to save hers.Lieutenant Ramie Ashdyn is an anomaly, a person whose genetic makeup makes her stronger and smarter than the average human. She’s pledged her life to protect the Coalition, an alliance of thirteen planetary systems, but when a top secret operation turns bloody, she’s charged with treason and the brutal executions of her teammates.
The Coalition needs the information Ash’s team stole on their last mission, so they send in Commander Rhys “Rest in Peace” Rykus to get it. He’s the man who’s responsible for turning Ash into an elite soldier… and he’s a man who isn’t, never was, and never will be in love with the woman he trained. Or so he tells himself.
Ash wants nothing more than to clear her name and be the woman her former instructor wants her to be, but the enemy who killed her teammates did more than frame her for treason and murder: they telepathically silenced her mind, preventing her from saying anything that might point to the truth about what happened.
Now Ash is trapped and set to be executed, the truth dying with her. Unless she can prove her innocence. But taking that path could destroy the Coalition she’s sworn to preserve and protect…
So after I found Leviathan Wakes it hit me that I haven't really been reading science fiction lately. Heck, I think The Lunar Chronicles may have been the last ones! (At the time because now I've been tearing through some sci-fi erotica!)
So I thought and thought about what other titles I really wanted from the sci-fi genre. Shades of Treason immediately popped into my mind. It's one I keep thinking about, but just haven't bought yet.
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