Avalon

Mindee Arnett

A bit of sci-fi action between my foreign authors exploration. And a good one I must say. This little space western finds Jeth leading a group of teenage starship thieves as they work toward purchasing their own ship and going legit. The starships they target generally have metadrives that allow faster than light travel. Their next assignment is to track down a lost ship and the cargo turns out to be valuable to their crimelord boss Hammer and to the confederated authorities. In fact, the cargo has the potential to dramatically altar how life in the galaxy functions... of course. This is good, fun sci-fi, that pays enough attention to the space traveling details, but not too much to get in the way (just turn on the gravity drive, don't worry about what it actually is). In fact, this reads very much like a Star Wars prequel with Jeth playing the young Han Solo. Throw in a few surprises and set the world up in such a way that this could be a nice little series for Arnett. At least, I hope it is since the characters she developed are interesting and fun.
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