Thursday, May 7, 2020

Shockwave by Lindsay Buroker [Review]

Shockwave by Lindsay Buroker
Shockwave (Star Kingdom #1) by Lindsay Buroker
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: May 14, 2019

Star Kingdom
1. ShockwaveKindle
2. Ship of Ruin
3. Hero Code
4. Crossfire
5. Gate Quest
5.5. Knight Protector
6. Planet Killer
7. Home Front
8. Layers of Force

Lindsay Buroker
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
What if being a hero was encoded in your genes?

And nobody told you?

Casmir Dabrowski would laugh if someone asked him that. After all, he had to build a robot to protect himself from bullies when he was in school.

Fortunately, life is a little better these days. He's an accomplished robotics engineer, a respected professor, and he almost never gets picked on in the lunchroom. But he's positive heroics are for other people.

Until robot assassins stride onto campus and try to kill him.

Forced to flee the work he loves and the only home he's ever known, Casmir catches the first ship into space, where he hopes to buy time to figure out who wants him dead and why. If he can't, he'll never be able to return home.

But he soon finds himself entangled with bounty hunters, mercenaries, and pirates, including the most feared criminal in the Star Kingdom: Captain Tenebris Rache.

Rache could snap his spine with one cybernetically enhanced finger, but he may be the only person with the answer Casmir desperately needs:

What in his genes is worth killing for?
Thoughts on Shockwave: *rubs hands together* Okay. A new adventure with bounty hunters, mercenaries (who could possibly be considered pirates), sweetly awkward professors who happen to be wicked smart, and genetically engineered bio-weapons that aren't going to be doing anyone any favors in the long run.

And the mystery of why Casmir Dabrowski (our aforementioned sweetly awkward professor) is suddenly the man everybody wants to get their hands on is...well, we get a few answers, but certainly not all of them. Yep, the mystery of Casmir is still live and kicking and a few extra layers of intrigue were added to him when he came face to face with Tenebris Rache.

I like the crew (Captain Laser...or should we call her Bonita? and Qin, her genetically constructed muscle. Oh, and Viggo, the ship who was once human and who REALLY likes to clean) and the hints that were dropped as to who and what they might be inadvertently tangled up in have me itching to read the next book. ITCHING.

Another solid start to what looks like it's going to be a fun, complex series full of intrigue and danger. *thumbs up*

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