“The thrills are nonstop, the alien cultures and races are well developed and fascinating, and there’s just the right amount of humor to keep the whole thing fizzing.” — Analog Science Fiction and FactReese Eddings has enough to do keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up … benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did promise to repay the loan. But she didn’t think it would involve tangling with pirates over a space elf prince…
Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed Firefly or Andromeda will like this series.
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Tags: found family, woman protagonist, minority/POC protagonist, adventure, space opera, romance, furries, space elves
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A fun read, not always predictable plot twists, well developed characters and if you choose to notice it an underlying morality story. The free first book prompted me to purchase the series, something I rarely am intrigued enough to do.
Great read.
Would have put the population description in the front though, so recommend you see the last pages first.
Still a great read however you do it.
I was engaged the whole time. I am looking forward to more in the series…
Does remind me of the series ‘Firefly’, but has it’s own twist.
Almost great world building, just a little thin in places, perhaps because there were so many places and so many things happening. Lots of snarky fun as Reese and her menagerie tromp through the galaxy on a voyage of adventure, self-discovery, true love, and mayhem, mayhem, mayhem! I immediately bought the four volume set and am in the final volume. Positive energy abounds!
Fun story & characters. Great for fans of Firefly or Andromeda
Great introduction to new world a species. I will be buying the next installment.
Loved it!
I’m not normally into too much science fiction (though I have a lot of it in my library) but Earthrise was very different. The characters were quirky enough to be very likeable and the story was very well crafted w/o being crippled w/a lot of scientific mumbo-jumbo. I’m looking forward to reading more from this author
Even though the heroine not-infrequently annoyed me, there was so much good stuff in this story that I went right on to book 2 …. and wound up reading the whole series one after the other. (Don’t miss the holiday epilogue novel, too!)
I. Love. This. Book. I’ve read the whole series; it’s so fantastic. Without spoiling too much, if you have the patience to wait three books, there’s such a highly satisfying payoff of character development and relationship building between all the characters. I could not put this series down! The word of a stranger may not hold much weight, but if this kind of book is your cup of tea, I highly recommend it!
I really like this author. I have already read the next two books in this series, great characters and world building.
I really like this author’s books. For this particular story, I didn’t care for the lead character but I think that’s why the plot was such a success. It showed a person with a real point of view, even if you didn’t agree with it. I can’t wait to finish the series!
How did I miss this?
M.C.A. Hogarth’s SF novel Earthrise has been around for a bit – but until Candid Book Reviews offered me an ARC, (muchas gracias) I’d never heard of it. WOW!! I’m mesmerized by her imaginative world-building – these aliens aren’t just technicolor people like us, and her characterizations match her stunningly non-human species with personalities no one would never ascribe to a human being. As for her humanoid protagonists – human Reese is a native of Mars, from a traditionally parthenogenic family, and a rebel against all her family treasures. She’s as self-contained and aggressively self-protective as her hypercritical family raised her to be. When – broke and desperate – she and her crew take on a mission with too much money and too little information attached, she ends up with a passenger – a humanoid Eldritch. Hirianthial is unusual for an Eldritch esper, eschewing his xenophobic race’s strictures on off-world travel and contact with alien species. There is reason for that, as well as for Reese’s family ways, and like Reese, Hiriantial finds himself a life-long rebel. This, however, does not make them friends. They are allies of convenience, and both have secrets from the past, as well as fears for the future, that they do not wish to share. They grate on each other, yet cannot help their increasing need to interact. This is one of the most fascinating slow-burn romances I’ve ever read, and the juxtaposition of all that anger and angst with the light-hearted relationships among the crew makes for interesting character revelations. Imbed all that in a matrix of cat-and-mouse games with interstellar pirates, mysterious benefactors, reclusive evil crime lords, and some wild spaceship dog-fights… You GOTTA READ this!!
For a futuristic setting it was very very entertaining.
don’t start this if you’re not willing to ivest in the following (however many) volumes to get the full story. disappointed. was supposed to be romantic and action packed i think
Didn’t like the main character.
I have been a SF fan more years than many have lived and enjoyed this book very much
Series suck but this has a few new twists. It’s preferable to all the contemporary romance & BDSM garbage that shows up for free. The main character was a bit annoying, the author keeps going over and over the characters deep-seated psychological insecurities until you just wanted to choke the bitch. You just want to say, OK already we got it. Stop repeating yourself over and over and over. We get what her problems are, we don’t need our memories refreshed in every single chapter.
women of color adventurers and super (anti?) heroes. YES, please.