Book Review: The Captive, by Kit Burgoyne
I do highly recommend The Captive for anyone who can get onboard with the premise and can stand the sometimes graphic and often violent plot.
I do highly recommend The Captive for anyone who can get onboard with the premise and can stand the sometimes graphic and often violent plot.
It’s a short, sharp, biting read, and thoroughly engrossing; I highly recommend it for lovers of history, linguistics, politics, and truth.
Mindscape is a book that truly deserves this reissuing, so more people can experience its dynamic characters and its vision of cooperation amid great struggles.
Stu is patient with Ezra’s fears and flaws (such as smoking), and he turns out to be an incredible source of strength when Ezra finds out it’s not just his own life he’s fighting to save. There are some really lovely moments in their romance.
Far from discovering that her books have been visited by the suck fairy in the intervening decades since she wrote, I have been excited to realize Jo Clayton’s novels are even deeper, richer, and more rewarding now than I had realized at the time.
There is plenty of pulse-pounding action in this book, from hand-to-hand combat to running battles including drones, hybrid watch-animals, mechas, and both normal humans and other super-soldiers…