Science Fiction Romance/Space Opera
From Goodreads:
Part
snake, part human, and—some would say all bitch—Captain Tannis of the starship El
Cazador has one goal in life—to earn enough credits to pay for the Meridian
treatment to achieve the immortality she craves. And one last job will get her
there. The assignment: protecting the most powerful man in the Universe.
Being
leader of the known universe isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, it sucks
big time. And after five hundred years, Callum Meridian, founding member of the
Collective, is bored out of his mind. But as things are changing, he’s
changing—into what, though, he isn’t sure. Callum is determined to discover the
truth, and he’s employed the crew of El Cazador to help him do it.
Not everyone agrees with his plan,
though. His own people will stop at nothing to prevent the truth coming out,
the Church is taking advantage of the confusion and attempting a coup, and even
the crew of El Cazador seem close to tossing him out the airlock without
a space suit. But defying death has never been more dangerous, sexier, or more
fun.
I loved the first two Blood Hunter novels. They were the kind of Science Fiction Romance
and Space Opera that I love. I put
Death Defying on pre-order as soon as I saw it. It appeared on my kindle several days ago and went to the
top of by TBR list. I expected the
same level of enjoyment I got from reading the first two books and I was not
disappointed.
Death Defying did several things. The prologue goes back 15
years and tells how Rico and Tannis met.
I got to catch up with the crew of El Cazador again. There was additional world building as
I learned more about the Collective, the Church and the Rebels. Death Defying has one very important
new main character, Callum Meridian.
He was a side character in previous books but moves to center stage
here. Tannis get her own chance
for a HEA but not without a lot of problems.
The plot starts out simple and becomes more complex as the
story progresses. Callum hires the
El Cazador and its crew to take him on a journey of discovery. For Callum it is more of a journey then
he expected. He starts out as an
arrogant spoiled man who has to face some hard facts about the man he has
become. How the mission plays out
depends on how much he can change.
This is book three in the series but it does a good job
standing alone. For maximum
enjoyment read Break Out, book one, and Deadly Pursuit, book two first. When you finish all three there is
Temporal Shift and Blood and Metal coming out in March and April of 2014.
Entangled: Edge published Death Defying by Nina Croft in 2014.
