Science Fiction Romance
From Goodreads:
A
millennium into the future, all children are tested for minder talents, and the
best are recruited for the Citizen Protection Service.
Agent Lièrén
Sòng is recovering from a near-fatal crash. He should want nothing more than to
get back to using his talents to interrogate criminals for his covert CPS field
unit, but being sidelined gains new appeal when he makes friends with a woman
and her son. Imara Sesay, road crew chief and part-time bartender, breaks her
ironclad rule never to get close to customers when she asks Lièrén to teach her
son how to control his growing minder talents.
Unexpected deaths in his field unit
make Lièrén suspect he isn’t a lucky survivor, he’s a loose end. He should pull
away from Imara and Derrit to keep them safe, but when the local CPS Testing
Center is entirely too interested in Derrit’s talents, Lièrén must make an
impossible choice. Can he stay alive long enough to save Imara and her prodigy
son?
Minder Rising is a great new story written by Carol Van Natta. The setting is in The Central Galactic Concordance, her interesting Science Fiction
Romance series. Minder Rising is
set in the same world as OverLoad Flux but it works very well as a stand-alone.
I loved the characters and how
their inter-action moves the story along.
Lieren Song does not start as that strong a character. He seem to be just drifiting along as
he recovers from a near fatal accident.
Things change as he becomes involved in the lives of Imara Sesay and her
son Derrit. He quits drifting and
becomes involved in a way he would have never expected.
Imara Sesay is a strong chracter
from the beginning. Her son is her
big concern and when she asked Lieren for help the lives of the three become
very intertwined. There are also some very interesting side characters that also help drive the story.
Minder Rising is character driven. The characters and their actions make this to a story filled
with danger and tension. As the
story progresses secrets come out, betrayals are revealed and both Imara and Lieren start to
question how they want to live their life. The story starts slowly and builds to a fast pace by the
end. It kept me reading and unable
to put it down.
There is romance but it is the slow
burning kind. I loved how the story kept throwing Lieren and Imara together and the romance
grew from there. Neither acting on the attraction adds to the tension.
Both Lieren and Imara have back
story and there is a need for world building. Each are smoothly woven into the story as needed.
Book 3 is coming out in the fall of
2015. According to the author some
of the characters from book 1 will reappear so if you have not read OverLoad
Flux you might want to pick it up next.
I do know tht you don’t want to miss reading all the books in the
series.
I think Van Natta is a rising star in the Science Fiction Romance world.
Minder Rising by Carol Van Natta
was published in 2015.
I received an ARC of Minder Rising
from the author in return for an honest review.
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