Lovers of Sci Fi...read this series!
589361
Love Autumn's writing; easy to read, good character development. Humans living on a spaceship for 300 years...quite believable for sci fi, which is my geeky favorite genre.
273466
G.S. Jennson has written an amazing science fiction series, starting with the Aurora Rising trilogy and moving directly into Aurora Renegades trilogy. Abysm: Book 6, of the Aurora Rhapsody series is as good, if not better than her five others.

For me, the stars of the show are Miriam and Alex Solovy - two strong women, mother and daughter, as different as day and night, yet fighting for the future of humanity. Miriam can lead and manage a galactic Navy. Alex, on the other hand, is more likely off talking to aliens in an alternative universe accompanied by her husband, Caleb, the ex-intelligence agent. They need to help save the world - again.

This time, instead of Alex causing all the fuss and trouble, Miriam gets to draw a line in the sand with her counterinsurgency against the Prime Minister of the Earth Alliance of Worlds. She kicks butt and takes names, while staying within regulations and in total control. At least in public. Chaos ensues. How much fun is that ?

Jensen is at her best! Characters, plot, dialogue, setting, worlds, theories - just simply, her imagination continues to shine brighter through each novel in the series. I can't remember a series this long I still continued to read  with the exception of Wolfe, Zelazny or Moorcock. The new ones just bore  me.

Great adventures, fantastic twisted politics, awesome future tech, space battles, combat, aliens, triumph, tragedy and PREVOs.

Bravo Ms. Jennsen  An excellent addition to the series
2711219
Seriously in love with this series. Especially this book. I feel like anyone interested in the sci-fi supernatural genre will also fall deeply in love with this. Not a fan of cliffhangers but I will happily let it slide with how good the ending was. ;)
1089980
Riveting combination of science fiction, fantasy and action! Well worth reading!
668503
Loved it! As advertised, it's a different sci-fi story. I actually went thru the entire nine book series in sequence and loved every one. Still looking forward to the next installment. Well written, great character development, and fully edited, as well. Great series of books.
2333310
OMG! This is one of those series books where playing hooky for a few hours and losing sleep was just so worth it. I really don't know how Ms. Hogarth knew what this science-fiction multicultural loving geek chick needed, but this series has been the panacea for all the huge disappointments (especially in IR) I've come across. And technically, it's not a romance, but a huge sweeping epic of the far-off reaches of the universe, the families we come from and those we make, political and social upheaval, and yes, love in all its myriad forms.

There's an incredible cast of amazing characters who while "alien" perhaps in form, are still quite relatable and even more human than the humans (save for the bad guy dragon-shifters). As much as I adored Reese and Hirianthial (and Hirianthial has just been added to The Fountain Pen Diva's exclusive Book Boyfriend list) my favourite characters were the brother/sister tigraines Sascha and Irine (and I really liked how their social mores while different--and maybe disconcerting for some readers--are treated as a matter of course) and Allacazam the Flitzbe (I want one for my birthday).

Of course, it's of paramount importance that the female characters be assertive, strong yet with flaws and there are plenty of them here. I loved Liolesa, the Eldritch queen, unflappable, savvy and willing to do whatever it took to save her slowly-dying race from extinction, even at the cost of her crown. Moreover, the universe Ms. Hogarth created is multicultural and multispecies, the way our actual future SHOULD look. I am SO DONE with sci-fi, fantasy, urban fantasy and other subgenres whitewashing their worlds then whining when called to the mat for it. Newsflash: PoC read (and write) sci-fi. We love it. We want to be part of it. Get a grip!

And THE COVER! I just can't keep doing happy dances over all three incredible covers! I heart these covers so much that I'd be willing to buy the physical copies of the novels just so I can hold them in my hot little hands. When there is so much whitewashing and fail with covers featuring characters of color, here's the amazing Julie Dillon putting them front and center and heroic as all get-out. Moreover, my girl Reese is dark-skinned and has naturally braided and beaded hair. What a refreshing concept when it seems too many authors are all about cafe au lait, butterscotch, honey or anything lighter than a paper bag with silky flowing locks courtesy of some "Native American" relative, and green/grey eyes. Though they're always built like Nikki Minaj.

What a way to end this awesome series. Holding my breath in hope and horror as a closed and xenophobic world tettered on the brink of destruction and a man, long haunted by duty and guilt finally comes into his own. Character death, violence, rape, the innocent lives lost in war--it's here and while not gratuitous, it's a necessary part of the dangerous and shifting powerplays that held the Eldritch homeworld in precarious balance.

Of course I knew Reese and Hirianthial were going to end up together and by book two Rose Point, the tension between them was killing me. But what a way to go! I cheered and sighed and though definitely not erotic (and here I wouldn't have minded some serious steam between Hirianthial and Reese), it was sweet and sensual, and considering what travails these two people have gone through, they've most certainly earned their happy ending.

Now that I've finished Laisrathera, what the hell am I going to read NOW? The bar has once more been raised.
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I am only going to write this one "review" for the entire series and it was amazing! If you love SciFi and romance, this is your series! As all series, there was a slow book or two but even those did not lose my attention at all like other books can do. Action packed, evil blood sucking super nasty bugs, an Empire past it's prime, earthlings thinking they are "all that and more", sexy dark heroes and smart woman who find true love. Fast paced and hard to put down. I ordered the next one right after another and just have to say, read them in the order that feel right based on the preface. Like book 3 really is for a few book later and book 7 should be read after book 5. You will easily get the feel of the order but if you mess up, stop and on another book or not. It all will meld and end in a fantastic way!
515356
Having made it through the first arc (including 7.5) in something like a week I thought I'd stop and offer a review of the series so far. No spoilers or plot lines, just my opinion. First, if you read earlier reviews and are put off by the comments about poor editing, most (but not all) of that's fixed. The comments about over the top cussing are correct but it's creative and not mean-spirited. If you can't get past that this series is not for you.

These books will suck you in to a world that is part sci-fi part fantasy part military and part... name a genre and it's probably here. Somehow the author makes it work. The character development is well paced and the multiple story lines well connected. The heroine kicks butt, no d-I-ds here!  Teamwork, family, friendship are the overarching themes.  The only drawback for me is I'm so drawn in I'm getting nothing else done!  On to arc 2...
4515430
I enjoy sci-fi and this, at first, caught my eye as a different concept. This made me read the first book, Now I am hooked. I have read the first three and cannot wait to read the next in the series. It is an easy read and I find that once I start, I cannot put it down. You begin to wonder what else could possible happen to these poor guys that you  have not already seen, but it does, and another situation occurs that you did not expect.
  A very good read, BUT, start at the beginning of the series,,,,,,
2575367
Good Sci Fi series that is easy to read. Will make you want to read more. Isn't that the idea?
1798283
The ideas Laurence presents keep me riveted. This series is my most looked forward to now. I've read a lot of scifi and have been bored by repeated ideas, but Laurence has created new topics of interest. I also appreciate the hot potato topics like pride and oppression found in academic circles that he addresses. Start with Quicker and work your way thru the series. Unless your bored with fantastic wonderful new ideas in scifi, you won't be disappointed! Disclaimer: I've bought and read every book so am reasonably informed...
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I fell in love with this series and all the well-developed characters! The mixture of scifi, romance, and swashbuckling along with the age-old good vs evil kept me enthralled!
Look forward to the next installment! ;-)
Great writing!
2970217
I guess this was book three--I read the entire series start to finish because I couldn't get enough. I have been ruined. Since reading this series and Craig Martelle's follow-on series Cygnus Arising, I can't find anything else to read that is as exciting to read and as well written.  I absolutely loved this book. Branden and his Hellcat are outstanding characters, as are the other characters which are introduced as the book and the series continues. The story line is riveting and original. Yet, as one reads this series, one continues to think of the writing style of Ann McCaffery, with a bit of Andre Norton thrown in.  I believe any Science-fiction reader who has read and enjoyed these writers, will absolutely love this series!
3261943
I love this series!!  It is the best scifi series that I have ever read.  Humor mixed with some very interesting ethical situations.  Great writing style.
957656
Great series!  Fascinating premise and complex characters you can really care about.  And very well written. Totally worth reading!  This is easily the best sci fi book I've read in a long, long time.  Hugh Howey is the kind of thoughtful, creative author I've been looking for, one who writes about ideas, about social concepts, about scary but believable ways in which society might evolve in the future!
4542836
Get the whole series of books in this set and experience a wonderous world of sci-fi as never before.  GREAT!!!!
587062
I love to read more than anyone I know and I have read probably thousands of good books. These are the best. They have enough action to keep you on edge throughout the whole series, but they are not utterly devoid of reasoning. While most popular science fiction and fantasy is just chock full of epic battles, space travel, fireworks, and quests, these books give you somthing more to think about for a long time afterward- the nature of war, religion, humor, love and humanity.  Phillip Pullman manages to weave together the lives of his characters in skilled and often unexpected ways. Definately a 5 star series. A word of caution- you MUST read them in order to understand the complicated plot.