Rating: 4.75🌈
The journey of Felix Ingesson, his broken ex super soldier partner , Zander Anatolius, and the rest of the crew of the ship, Chaos, continues in the fantastic novel, Lonely Shore.
The novel picks up after the events of Chaos Station, Zander has become a part of the crew but the effects of the alien stinn poisoning are increasingly felt throughout his system and he’s functional less and less as himself.
This heartbreaking story thread is viewed by multiple sources as the story is told by multiple points of view, not just the main couple. The crew members are a space going found family of mixed species and peoples that are still coming together for the reader. So it’s equally important to feel Zander’s breakdown by each one’s perspective, not just Felix’s.
For Felix, Zander know it will be shattering. And he will be correct. So it’s evasive maneuvering as far as communication goes between them for much of this story when it comes to the reality of Zander’s situation.
The authors weave an impending sense of disaster in this story even as they are building a romance and multiple relationships between the characters within the ship’s crew.
Agrius Cartel , a criminal organization that’s been pursuing the crew because of various reasons, steps up its efforts to bring them down, it’s set against the personal drama of the fight for Zander’s survival.
Did I cry? Oh yes I did. Get a box of tissues ready. The authors pulled my emotional strings here and I was exhausted from the first to the last paragraph. Extremely satisfying to be honest, but wrung out.
And very ready for the next book to see where the crew and adventure takes them.
A great read and totally engaging book. One I highly recommend, but read the series in the order they are written.
Series – read them in the order below:
- Chaos Station 1
- Lonely Shore 2
- Skip Trace 3
- Inversion Point 4
- Phase Shift 5 – series finaleÂ
Buy link:
Lonely Shore (Chaos Station Book 2)
Blurb
All they can do is live day to day…
Felix Ingesson has returned to his duties as the Chaos’s engineer with Zander Anatolius, his ex-boyfriend-turned-broken-super-soldier, at his side. Hope means something again. But there’s nothing Felix can do to battle the alien poison flowing through Zander’s veins, or his imminent mental decline. With each passing day, the side effects of Zander’s experimental training are becoming more difficult to ignore.
When the ruthless Agrius Cartel seeks their revenge—including an ambush and an attempt to kidnap the Chaos’s crew—Zander is pushed over the edge. He can no longer hide his symptoms, nor does he want to. But hurting Felix when he’s not in control of himself is Zander’s worst nightmare—when it nearly happens, he agrees to seek help. Even if that means trusting the unknown.
As Zander places his life in alien hands, Felix appoints himself his lover’s keeper. And though he tries to be strong, he can’t ignore the fact that he might lose Zander…forever this time.
- Publisher: Ghost Ship Books; 2nd edition (July 23, 2024)
- Publication date: July 23, 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 318 pages
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