Reviewer Colleen Chesebro recently had the following to say about the fourth in the Solar Wind series by Lyz Russo:
Volume Four brings the pirate assassin, Federi, and his wife, the
lovely genetic engineer/musician, Paean, back together at long last.
When these two are apart, the Solar Wind never rides smooth on the waves
beneath its bow. Something is off, though, and Federi’s gypsy intuition
is pushed into overdrive to figure out what is wrong.
Suddenly, a new threat surfaces when Dana, an alien from the planet
New Dome, arrives aboard the ship with an agenda all her own. The
hauntingly beautiful Dana disrupts the newfound relationship between the
Captain and Perdita when it is revealed that she is Rushka’s mother.
Perdita is stunned and watches, filled with fury, as the Captain
succumbs once again to Dana’s evil charms. Meanwhile, Rushka, pregnant
with her first child remembers the cruelty she suffered at the hands of
her alien mother when she was a young child.
And, if that wasn’t enough drama, mutant creatures are menacing the
crew, threatening their very lives. The beings can’t be destroyed, and
they regenerate themselves from a single living cell. They multiply into
the thousands with only one thing on their mind – to kill. When one of
the creatures attacks Federi, the team battles for his and their lives
looking for solutions to save the world from certain destruction.
Lyz Russo
Perdita is the key to protecting humankind from Dana’s malevolence. If they can save Federi, there is still hope…
I have been reading the Solar Wind Series for some time now, and I must say, I enjoyed
Book IV, Raider,
the best! The characters have long ago found a place in my heart. Once
again, it is the relationship between Paean and Federi that steer the
crew into new adventures. The addition of space travel and the ability
to beam to any location in an instant added another layer of mystique to
the plot.
Lyz Russo has created a science fiction series that continues to
entertain and invite the reader into the world of the Solar Wind, and
its crew. This futuristic pirate fantasy is one of my favorites!
Read more about Solar Wind IV here.
