Review: Different
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2014
I was gifted a copy to review for PRATR. I give this set 4 Fangs only because it was not my usual choice of reading so I don’t think I was full able to appreciate it. It’s more Sci-Fi than Fantasy except for the first book in the set. Each story is filled with conflict and drama.My favorite was A Mer-Tale simply because it was more my typical read than the others. The story of a land-trapped mermaid had interesting and original ideas for mermaid life. Slipping into Thala’s world was easy because the author gave you enough description of what was going on without rambling like some tend to do. Thala’s views on her uncle are mixed. He used to be someone she respected until he came from the war with the Blight and something haunting his eyes. But with her parents death she was stuck with him.The Fence follows Doze in his search for escape and freedom. He fights hard to protect his sisters from the experiments being conducted. The conclave officers gather up the children under the pretense of bad weather coming and having to evacuate. Doze knows it’s a bunch of bull so he decides it’s time to escape. Follow him and his very wild and rocky path to freedom.In Conclave Seven the once in a thousand years there are games held that will decide who controls the universe for the next thousand years. Only once in 7000 years has the Terreans (earth) made it into the top ten. Rowan knows these odds and isn’t very hopeful about their team winning. The games are brutal and the other species are very weird. Rowan’s team fights with everything they have and some die.In The Peach and Araxi Peach is on a ship from Earth, the Conclave Pacifica, that has been traveling for 260 years to a planet that had looked to be similar to Earth. Only they end up off course. She ends up getting a new friend request and becomes good friends with Araxi. Only Araxi isn’t on her ship. When her mother finds out about Araxi she begins to hope that there is help nearby. Araxi on the other hand is raised where they only think technology is important and when he discovers Peach he makes learning about her people and technology his project. The story follows the effect of the friendship between Peach and Araxi and how it ripples in their ships and the lives onboard them.