Tyler Matthews and brother J.B. face their greatest challenge, battling murder charges against an innocent human in the bizarre, game-like legal system of the Ounta-Kadiis League. Meanwhile, the Terran Commonwealth is locked in mortal combat with the New Galactic Empire.The outcome of Bertie Winther’s trial will determine which side gets access to vast new asteroid fields chock full of exotic … exotic ores. Assassins and spies lurk everywhere, and now sister Rosalie—the sweet-smiling, professional killer of the Family—has been apprehended for murder, too.
Soon Tyler, J.B., Suzie, and Mr. Blue are wrestling four capital cases while trying to prevent Hideki Tsuchiya’s New Galactic Empire from bribing the government and seizing the vitally needed mineral rights.
Throw in a beautiful alien High Priestess, a population where most of the women are clones with brains but no rights, and Stellar Light. The glow-in-the-dark metal that Ounta-Kadiis men must have to tempt the few fertile females to marry them.
Oh, and Tyler’s mom, Admiral Bianca Matthews, must exit the Universe to rescue the Quirt-Thymean Blue Fleet, pushed into a white space, anti-matter Cosmos by Sakura House combatants during a pitched battle for Adao-2.
With conspiracies worthy of talk radio and the usual Star Lawyers deep bench of quirky characters, Stellar Light Conspiracy takes the space opera/legal thriller adventure to new heights.
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“If we do not look at the stars, the little things seem too big to bear.” Lowell Fillmore
“Let justice prevail.”
This is the best legal thriller series I’ve ever read, more so as based in Space Opera! Wonderful real life characters that I can’t help become attached to, harsh and humorous dialogue that keeps the storyline flowing with tension filled action, and naturally fast paced. It has been a long premise, and many controversial situations, conspiracies, intrigue, emotional and edge of seat moments, each more and interwoven, a tapestry of deceit, government betrayals, struggles for power.. against which the Star Lawyers have to outdone. It was wonderful to be back aboard the Patrick Henry, and visit another intricate, totally different and surprising alien court. The yarn is getting more tangled, and it’s a pleasure to see how the lawyers and their fantastic holographic team unravel bit by bit the threads of a tightly woven selfish and power driven desire of galactic domination, regardless of how many deaths or civilisations fall. I savoured every sentence and paragraph, and I really can’t say which book of the series is better; the more I read the more I’m captivated and fascinated by the story, by the magnificent imagination of the author. I remove my hat and bow to the writing splendours of Tom Shepherd. I am totally, head over heels enamoured of this series! I already want to read book 6 now. Needless to say, it’s a series I highly recommend without any doubt!
5 stars
Star Lawyers Book 5 Stellar Light Conspiracy ARC Copy
Tom Shepherd (Bookbag Press of Kansas City, MO / Tucson, AZ /Geneva, Switzerland (understood because of the war)
Started: 22 June 2019.
Finished: 26 June 2019.
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KyBook ( 1, 2, & 3), iBooks, Kobo, SmashWords, Good Reads and others as I find them.
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The progression of then and now ….
This massive chronicle of the Star Lawyers starts off slow about like an old fashioned steam locomotive, however, as we move along, the events start to flow. Even though there is a war going on, we can see the logical progression leading up to this/then time in space.
We join our intrepid lawyers as the one group is completing their latest victory/(mini celebration) of surviving the “The House of the Silent Moons”.
{You really have to hand it to the original members of the original {Imperium Galactica}. You survived the latest threat to your Empire and you can see the end in sight, leaving you with a couple of very unique questions: Do you take what s left of your military, and military hardware and carve out another smaller empire? Or do you place the latest and greatest battle stations far away (outside of) anyone s general knowledge?
By following the last one, most people/beings hope that the night after the fall isn t too long and things will return to how they were at the height of the Empire. Rarely does this happen, what usually happens is that the greater the established rulers are, the longer night is.}
By hiding their technologies (military), they possibly averted long, long, dark ages and merely caused one that had a few of the original members of their Empire surviving to tell the fate of life in their individual parts of universe.
Some do step up and establish empires of thier own. Most don t, if nothing else, they take a good, long break and rebuild their economy. Building really successful star nations into empires takes a lot of determination and a different mindset than most beings want to do.
{The part that usually is the least likely to survive -and the mere fact that it did survive this time- was the central banking system. This tells us something about the greatness of the old Empire.}
The Bank of Rahjen set the standards of value and made commerce easier than if individual star nations had to find “what” could be traded for “what.” They also allowed various groups and individuals to open accounts with them thereby simplifying their lives.
This chronicle shows us both how far one member of the original group of beings who set up the original Empire can and did fall. It also shows us what can happen when they start to build themselves back up into a star nation.
Even with the war going on, and after a stop back home. Partially for some repairs and seeing how low the enemy can stoop.
The crew on board the starship “Patrick Henry” leave to rejoin the others in the corvette “Legal Beagle” out on the rim of known space.
Here s where you need to get this book for yourself. If you re like me, when you come across (those really well written books) the words morph into a movie inside your mind. At least it does for me, I remember where I was on this book review. The end of the “movie“ came within approximately 20 pages of the end of the book.
Can t wait for the next book in this series. Even the author s second series (prequel to this one is good.) It comes along just often enough to help maintain my “fix” when thinking about the SciFi universes.
Live life,
John Shrek Walters