HELL HAS NO FURY LIKE A #WOMAN SCORNED!Only one woman can save all of time and space. When CaptainCaldwell was taken away from #Frankie, she took it upon herself to leas the LSS Slicer. She decided to bring war to the Abacination prison camp for All and innocents. Frankie would stop at nothing to save Captain Caldwell. no space is vast enough and no torture hellish enough. Her mission: save …
Her mission: save Caldwell and bring nightmares upon the Abacination.
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I read UNDER ANIMUS directly after FRANKENSTEIN, the first book in this series, which is a good thing because the storyline picks up right where it ended in the cliffhanger of book one.
What a beginning. The first chaper had me gasp in shock. Now she has snapped! She, that’s Frankie, or Frank N. Stein, newly minted Captain of the Temporal BattleShip LSS Slicer – RA 1332 A.
I won’t spoil what she did, only that you won’t get a breather after this first, intense scene.
Staying true to book one, the storyline continues by having the reader question everything that happens. Is it real, or just another deception? Don’t ever take anything for granted, neither friends, nor foes, nor identities.
You learn a lot more about Frankie’s history, growing up on 21st century earth. Also about the people who forged her into what she is now – a broken and battered, yet calculating killing machine who won’t stop at anything to protect those she loves, even if her heart gets ripped apart more than once in the process.
Her ultimate mission: rescue her beloved Captain Caldwell from the Abacination, a gigantic Space Prison Camp in the Hellion Sector. You might think, the name alone tells it all. Wrong, it gets a lot worse than hell, so, don’t read if you have a weak stomach. The Rake, a zombie-like species, never show mercy, and neither does Frankie, trying to find and rescue her one, true love.
–> But, is Caldwell really who she thinks he is?
–> Are members of her trusted crew what they appear to be?
I asked those questions in the review to book one already. in UNDER ANIMUS you get some answers, but even more questions and a huge surprise in the end.
UNDER ANIMUS is an extremely intense read, nothing you can just fly over while getting distracted. Alexa Wayne has written a story that taxes your mind and imagination on different levels, and I savored every single minute of it. A five-Star menu for the mind!
It’s good to know that book three is already in the making, because one thing is for sure. I’ll buy it as soon as it’s available!
Frankie, the leader of the LSS Slicer, has plenty of things that work to demine her confidence: OCD and anxiety being just two examples. When her sweetheart is taken though, none of those things matter. She will do anything and everything in her power to get him back. Anyone in her way will be destroyed.
I absolutely adore Frankie’s character. I really related to her in the first book, but this one really brought out a new side of her, and I adore that one too. She has strength. Both physical and inner. To overcome all her demons to fight for herself and those she loves isn’t an easy task. She does it though, and it’s such an admirable fight that you can’t help but root for her.
While Frankie is fighting her inner demons, there’s plenty of action and suspense as questions from the first book are answered. In this book, we really learn who these characters are and who they’re loyal to.
Like the first book in the series, it has a little of everything: adventure, romance, battles, hurt/comfort, friendship, and of course, awesome sci-fi action.
A series well worth the read!
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.