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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780553587975
ISBN number: 0553587978
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 480
Printing Date: October 25, 2005
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: October 25, 2005
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Award-winning author Linnea Sinclair brings her special sizzle to science fiction with this action-packed blend of otherworldly adventure and sexy stellar romance.…
After a decade of piloting interstellar patrol ships, former captain Chasidah Bergren, onetime pride of the Sixth Fleet, finds herself court-martialed for a crime she didn’t commit–and shipped off to a remote prison planet from which no one ever escapes. But when she kills a brutal guard in an act of self-defense, someone even more dangerous emerges from the shadows.
Gabriel Sullivan–alpha mercenary, smuggler, and rogue–is supposed to be dead. Yet now this seductive ghost from Chaz’s past is offering her a ticket to freedom–for a price. Someone in the Empire is secretly breeding jukors: vicious and uncontrollable killing machines that have long been outlawed. Gabriel needs Chaz to help him stop the practice before it decimates Imperial space. The mission means putting their lives on the line–but the tensions that heat up between them may be the riskiest part of all.
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I've heard good things about Linnea Sinclair for awhile but was never sure where to jump in and was waiting for the right mood. I've definitely had a sci-fi hankering lately, so I figured now (on the heels of Grimspace and The Host: A Novel) was as good a time as any. GABRIEL'S GHOST is certainly a fast-paced book and it was kind of cool that it started after some pretty significant action had already happened. The reader is caught up along the way as Captain Chasidah Bergren, aka Chaz, attempts to survive her life sentence on the desolate planet Moabar for a crime she didn't commit. Sound a bit like Jax's predicament in Grimspace? The two stories do have a fair bit in common, including a leading man who's "psychically gifted" to put it mildly. Though the writing style, IMO, is distinctly different.
I'm going to skip a detailed plot synopsis and just say it's light, entertaining space opera fare and I kept reading because of the characters. Chaz and Sully (aka Gabriel Ross Sullivan) are good ones. The dialogue is snappy and realistic and I liked that I never got frustrated with Chaz (who narrates the story). With Sully, yes, several times. Although, there always seemed to be a rather horrifically painful justifying reason for his actions and apparent complete failure to be forthcoming. But I was never frustrated with Chaz, never wanted to smack her upside the head for a particularly childish reaction or preoccupation with something irrelevant. And that was refreshing. I hate it when my heroines go against character and do something stupid merely for the sake of the plot. Chaz kept her head (if not her heart) and never ran off half-cocked, inadvertently plunging her companions into Utter Peril. I liked her and I liked Sully. I wanted to find out what happened to them and enjoyed the not-so-neatly wrapped up ending.
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I bought this RITA-award-winning book on the advice of a friend--thanks, Cory!
Gabriel's Ghost is about Chasidah (Chaz) Bergren and Gabriel (Sully) Sullivan. Chaz was a starship captain until she ended up on a prison planet. Sully was a smuggler and mercenary she'd been up against several times, until his supposed death. And now her one-time adversary is rescuing her and asking for her help.
Seems someone is breeding jukors, incredibly vicious, impossible-to-control monsters, and Sully's involved with a group trying to stop it, but they need an insider to help: Chaz. It also probably has something to do with Sully's feelings for her.
I can't summarize the complexity of this book in a couple of short paragraphs. There's very thorough worldbuilding, including different races and religions and the accompanying prejudices, as well as a variety of mental powers. There's also complex emotional development, not just of the romance, but also of family relationships and of the dissolution of prejudices and the reaction to fear and trauma. And not least, there's an exciting suspense plot, with plenty of edge-of-your-seat action and divided loyalties and surprising twists.
My only complaint was that Chaz kept getting blasted with one traumatic revelation after another, and at one point, it got to be a bit much. I'm all for pushing characters to their limits, and I enjoyed it here, too, but it did make me say "you have got to be kidding."
I have one more Linnea Sinclair book in my TBR pile, and I'll be looking for more.
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I read a lot of books this is one that made me ill i dont want to read 5 chapters of how she feels i didnt like this book so much that i wanted to burn it she should stick to romance books I have about 5000 sifi books not a typo! i didnt like this book so much that i gave it away i cant say enough bad things about this book i hope this helps someone to not read this book
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Prejudice is defined by Webster's as "an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge" and "an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics." What if the faith of an Empire was based on such a prejudice? What if every member of a society, from the smallest child to the highest executive and military official, was steeped in such dogma? What would it be like to be the subject of such prejudice? Worse still, what would it be like to be raised in such a society, steeped in such beliefs and one day look in a mirror and discover yourself to be exactly what you had always feared and despised. What would it be like to face the rejection of those you loved most, to fear for your very life on a daily basis? Meet Gabriel Ross Sullivan, poet, smuggler, mercenary, a man born with a rare genetic gift that had forced him to fake his own death.
Captain Chasidah Bergren, pride of the Sixth Fleet had been court-martialed for a crime she didn't commit and sentenced to the harsh prison planet of Moabar, a fate worse than death, a world from which there was no escape. No one mourned the loss of her crew more than Chaz, but she had never received the order that she had been accused of ignoring which had resulted in their deaths. With no way to prove her innocence, Chaz's life had been reduced to finding a way to survive in the hostile environment her world had become. The last thing she had expected however was to be a attacked and sexually assaulted by a Taka guard. The endeavor had failed and Chaz had added another name to her death toll. Check that, the last thing she'd ever expected was to come face to face with a ghost from her past. Gabriel had come to liberate her. Why "Sully" of all people? True they had played a game of cat and mouse across the universe both professionally and personally. Was their mutual attraction enough for him to risk exposure?
No sooner has she reconciled herself to the fact that the man both she and her government had thought dead was indeed alive and well, when they are attacked again, this time by a nightmare she had thought had long since been destroyed - a jukor, a genetic war experiment gone awry. The project had been banned decades ago. The creatures were uncontrollable killing machines.
Gabriel needs Chaz's help. Someone was breeding jukors on Marker, the planet where Chaz had grown up as a military brat. Sully and his crew planed to destroy the illegal labs. Chaz knew the planet inside and out and her knowledge of the military systems would be invaluable to their cause. It may very well be a suicide mission but what did she have to lose? Where Sully is concerned - only her heart!
In the close quarters of Sully's ship, old feelings resurface, passions are stirred, but Chaz can feel that Sully is holding part of himself back. The brash, cavalier space pirate seems almost vulnerable. When she accidentally discovers his dark secret she is shocked. She had been raised to fear and despise the Stolorths because they possessed these dangerous abilities but had never a known a human to possess them. She had immediately feared Sully's Stolorth friend and crew member until she had been assured that the man's blindness prevented his use of the genetic trait. She had accepted Ren, giving him hope, but Sully's power was not curbed by a disability and it was more powerful than Chaz could have ever imagined. Not only had Sully invaded her heart and soul, he had acess to her mind as well. For him it was a double edged sword. Her every fear and doubt had the power to wound him deeply. For her it would test every ounce of faith and trust she had in the man she had come to love with all her heart.
While they are sorting all this out, the reality of the jukor lab on Marker is confirmed. There they discover that the conspiracy goes all the way to the top of the Imperial government, involving fanatical members of the Purity Englarian religious sect and the presumptive heir to the Sullivan fortune as well! How much more personal can their mission get? Help comes from surprising places as well when they are aided by Chaz's estranged older brother Thad and her ex-husband Philip Guthrie. At least one more jukor lab remains, but this one is not planet bound. The race continues to destroy the lab before war destroys the galaxy! Find out if they succeed in the subsequent installment, SHADES OF DARK.
Linnea Sinclair has created a perfect balance between well defined world building and equally well defined relationships. Bravo. I tend to feel that when you have one without the other the read becomes rather flat. Sully the clever and handsome daredevil would not engage the reader nearly as well without that touch of vulnerability which gives him empathy for the blind Stolorth, Ren, who is an outcast among his own kind and feared by all others. ... Read More
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Sinclair delivers the goods in this one! Boy, can't wait for the sequel, while hoping ALL her books get to be sequels (hint, hint to her publisher!).
Sully, the hero is a tortured guy, which could have been a cliche or just hard to read, but Sinclair uses humour to lighten the dark and her characters always feel so real, they stay with you after you finish.
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