Ascension: A Tangled Axon Novel
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4.3 • 9 Ratings
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- $6.99
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Publisher Description
Alana Quick is the best damned sky surgeon in Heliodor City, but repairing starship engines barely pays the bills. When the desperate crew of a cargo vessel stops by her shipyard looking for her spiritually-advanced sister Nova, Alana stows away. Maybe her boldness will land her a long-term gig on the crew. But the Tangled Axon proves to be more than star-watching and plasma coils. The chief engineer thinks he's a wolf. The pilot fades in and out of existence. The captain is all blond hair, boots, and ego . . . and Alana can't keep her eyes off her. But there's little time for romance: Nova's in danger and someone will do anything—even destroying planets—to get their hands on her!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Koyanagi's debut, an uncomfortable mix of space opera and science fantasy, disappoints. A struggling economy leaves starfaring surgeon Alana Quick scrambling to make ends meet, with no way to get off-planet. Her crippling medical condition makes a bad situation worse. When the crew of the Tangled Axon come looking for her sister, Nova, a spirit guide, they take little notice of Alana's professional skills but embrace her hostage value. Then a world dies and the Tangled Axon is blamed; Alana's salvation depends on exposing the true villains. The romance between Alana and Capt. Tev Helix is not so much true love as a profound case of Stockholm syndrome, and what could have been an interesting m lange of influences instead is muddled and clich d.
