The Godfather meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this crazy-ass adventure set on Viridian, a prison planet full of aliens…who want to eat you. Tig, the only human, is thrust into a lose/lose/lose situation when the mob boss he works for asks him to pick up and deliver a package that the Fed–the governing body of the known universe–also wants. To make matters worse, the “package” has curves for … for days, an attitude to match, and her own agenda for how this is all going down.
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Loved this futuristic action/adventure! Sam York is Sabrina York and I adore the heart she reveals in her stories so I took a chance from NetGalley. I’m so glad I did! She didn’t disappoint.
This took a chapter or so to get into because this is a whole very unfamiliar world to understand. I bookmarked the glossary and used it a lot in the beginning until I got into the flow. This book was so much fun. The “hero is a clueless human former cop good-guy who is imprisoned on a hostile planet inhabited by cons from all over the universe. He did the right thing, refused to obey an order that violated his morals and was exiled for it. He is so a fish out of water on this planet but manages to land on his feet. He stumbles from one adventure to the next somehow managing to coming out ahead. The story is full of snark and I smiled the whole way through it. I’ve never seen Guardians of the Galaxy but it made me think of the old Sam Spade detective movies. It also has major surprises springing at you all over the place.
Just awesome job Sam/Sabrina and thank you so much North Star for taking a chance on me for my honest review.
I really enjoyed The Viridian Convict by Sam York I found it was just so different and a very unique concept.
What initially appealed to me here was the idea of a prison planet colony sort of like an alien version of Kurt Russel’s Escape from New York.
I just wasn’t expecting to like it quite as much as I did.
And once I got used to all the various terminology being bandied about here, I very quickly became immersed in all the colourful narrative used throughout.
This also contained a lot more romance than I was expecting, which was again fab for me as I’m a sucker for a bit of the old love dust.
“The Viridian Convict was fast and furious from the get-go and I adored all the many diverse characters portrayed here.
Tig, Angel, Granny and Tig’s stinky partner one-eye, loved them all in various ways.
This was in a way rather slapstick at times but it worked and I found myself chuckling to myself throughout.
My only slight criticism here was the types of aliens contained on the prison planet all seemed to be variations of earth animals like the cluckers and the rats.
I would have prefered maybe a more imaginative approach to the alien form.
But this is only a minor gripe from me and I still enjoyed this story very much.
I was refreshingly different and I am happy to recommend this.
So I was provided with an ARC of “The Viridian Convict” By Netgalley of which I have reviewed voluntary.
All opinions expressed are entirely my own.
Amazing book I love futuristic si-fi
I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book.
I really enjoyed reading The Viridian Convict. The story and the characters were great. Tig who is the main character, bless his heart, he couldn’t win for lossing. Even though the odds were stacked against him, he did get his HEA.
The Viridian Convict by Sam York is an amazing sci-fi. I have to admit, after two pages, I had to go looking for the glossary because I wasn’t sure if I was reading typos or otherworldly things. Let that be a tip for you, read the glossary in the back of the book FIRST. After that, it was all systems go. This story tags along with Tig on a penal planet full of misfits and criminals. There’s a whole array of cluckers, dinks, krill, skeeg and nards for our hero Tig to wade through on his mission. This story has plenty of action, suspense, humor and snark to keep the pages turning. I enjoyed reading The Viridian Convict, even though sci-fi is not my first choice in reading material, and I look forward to reading more from Sam York in the future. This is a complete book, not a cliff-hanger.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Imagine, dear reader, a moon delegated for the worst of the worst convicts across the Federation. A penal colony of aliens with no rules other than every being for themselves. Welcome to Viridian. An alien eat alien world where the cast of characters is a mob boss named Granny, a human smart mouth named Tig, his curvaceous kick ass wanna be love interest Angel, and his partner One Eye. If you grew up watching Kurt Russell play Snake in the John Carpenter movies Escape from New York/LA, then you are gonna LOVE this book! I devoured it and did not want it to end! Highly recommend and look forward to reading more from author Sam York!