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Girl From Above #1 Betrayal
Firefly meets Ex_Machina in this no-holds-barred space opera adventure. Would you rather die a hero, or live as a wanted criminal? Ex-con Captain Caleb Shepperd believes being good is overrated. All he wants is to smuggle illegal cargo through the nine systems and live a prosperous (likely short) life on the wrong side of the law. But there's a problem with that plan. The priceless synthetic stowaway on his ship is a distraction he doesn't need. Torn between selling her and tossing her out the airlock, Shepperd fails to realize the synth is a killer, and he's the one locked in her sights. In a world where only one thousand synthetics were built, synthetic number One Thousand and One should not exist. She is no ordinary synth. Memories locked inside her code could bring Shepperd—and the entire nine systems—to its knees. Captain Shepperd and the oppressive corporations are about to learn that you can't hide from the sins of your past, especially when that past has orders to kill.
Reviews
DaCosta’s space opera series opener is a gritty science fiction adventure rife with antiheroes and cliffhangers. Space tug captain Caleb and his second-in-command, Francisca, make a shady but profitable living smuggling cargo among Saturn’s moons. Then a stowaway synthetic human, known as #1001, puts them directly in the crosshairs of the law and the powerful Chitec corporation. She looks like the other 500 male and 500 female synths legally created by Chitec for wealthy families. But #1001 shouldn’t exist, and she definitely shouldn’t be able to fight, and kill, with ease. Someone sent her to kill Caleb, but a conscience she shouldn’t have is staying her hand. While Caleb and Fran struggle to escape Chitec, #1001 battles her own altered programming. DaCosta spins her story briskly, revealing Caleb’s checkered past and his connection to #1001 little by little as the authorities close in. Despite some predictable plot twists (and trouble with details such as the names and terraformability of Saturn’s moons), there’s probably enough intrigue to draw most readers back for the next chapter in this series. (BookLife)
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