Ocean's Echo
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4.8 • 9 Ratings
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone, romantic space adventure, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit.
When Tennal - a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster - is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone whose coercive powers are strong enough to control him.
Enter Lieutenant Surit, the child of a disgraced general. Out of a desperate need to restore a pension to his other parent, Lieutenant Surit agrees to be bound to Tennal and keep him conscripted in the army, a task that seems impossible even for someone with Surit's ability to control minds.
Tennal just wants to escape, but Surit isn't all that he seems. And their bond may just be the key to their freedom.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Helming this brilliant and decisively modern space opera from Maxwell (Winter's Orbit) is charming rogue Tennalhin "Tennal" Halkana, who can read minds and makes that everyone else's problem—until his powerful aunt forces him into the military as punishment for using his powers illegally. The military uses Readers to navigate "chaotic space," and it has a solution for Readers who rebel: a "sync," or permanent mental bond with an Architect, people with the power to control others' minds. Faultlessly dutiful Surit Yeni, the son of a legendary traitor, is handpicked to sync with Tennal and with him take a salvage crew into chaotic space, searching for an abandoned station. But when Surit learns that Tennal is an unwilling civilian, he instead agrees to help Tennal escape—just as soon as they get through the mission. To do so, they must pretend the sync was successful. This is hard enough—but then it turns out that the wreck they're salvaging is where Surit's mother blew herself up, and what they discover inside reveals the true, awful source of Reader and Architect powers and plunges the sector into a bloody coup. With this outing, Maxwell incisively challenges military and alien artifact SF and digs into the uncomfortable core of these tropes. The queernorm world and heart-tugging slow-burn romance between the leads only enhances the experience. This earns a space on shelves alongside the very best of the genre.
Customer Reviews
Changed my reading experience
This book was by far one of the best I have read. It provided me the escape I was searching for when reading, with characters I couldn’t find in other books.
As a gay 26 year old man in the UK this story gave me the Sci-Fi reality and characters I could connect with and see parts of myself in that I’ve never gotten before. This was also my first ‘LGBTQ book’, and I couldn’t have asked for a better one.
I wish the story could be continued following the characters futures in more books. I guess the magic belongs in the reader carrying the story on in their own head. A huge thank you to all the people who worked on this book and ultimately brought it into my life. I absolutely love it, and I can’t wait to re-read and re-live the story again in the near future.
Thank you
Liam - UK