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    The Stars Now Unclaimed

    Written by Drew Williams

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley

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    In an effort to save the universe, she just might destroy it. The Stars Now Unclaimed is the incredible debut by a brilliant new voice in science fiction, perfect for everyone who loves Ready Player One, Star Wars, Mass Effect or just a really huge battle...
     
    A century ago, a mysterious pulse of energy spread across the universe. Meant to usher in a new era of peace and prosperity, it instead destroyed technology indiscriminately, leaving some worlds untouched and throwing others into total chaos.

    The Justified, a mysterious group of super-soldiers, have spent a hundred years trying to find a way to restore order to the universe. Their greatest asset is the feared mercenary Kamali, who travels from planet to planet searching for gifted young people and bringing them to the secret world she calls home. Kamali hopes that those she rescues will be able to find a way to reverse the damage the pulse wreaked, and ensure that it never returns.

    But Kamali isn’t the only person looking for answers to unimaginable questions. And when her mission to rescue a grumpy teenaged girl named Esa goes off the rails, Kamali suddenly finds herself smack in the centre of an intergalactic war… that she started.

    'Come for the exploding spaceships, stay for the intriguing universe' Becky Chambers, author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio UK
    Release dateAug 23, 2018
    ISBN9781471178382
    Author

    Drew Williams

    DREW WILLIAMS has been a bookseller in Birmingham, Alabama since he was sixteen years old, when he got the job because he came in looking for work on a day when someone else had just quit. The Stars Now Unclaimed - described by SFX as 'a glorious romp' - was his debut novel, followed by sequels A Chain Across the Dawn and The Firmament of Flame.

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    • 4/5
      ReviewThis was such a fun space adventure!In this novel, Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. She recruits children with extraordinary gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from returning and bathing the universe in more radiation. The Pax are determined to get in her way, and want to conquer the galaxy.It's up to Jane and her crew to stop them.I loved the premise, and the execution was great. This novel was action packed and I loved the fast pace! The characters were super likeable, and I enjoyed that they were all flawed. I liked the dark past of the Justified and how the story slowly developed and was revealed. The writing was great! It was easy to follow, and quick to read. I didn't feel bogged down at all. Overall, this was fun, and full of great space battles, would recommend
    • 2/5
      I don't know what to say … This book is basically a looooong string of fighting scenes. I mean like 90% of fighting scenes. There isn't much else. After reading the synopsis I was in for a great space opera and some fighting, but this was just too much for me. You get some likeable characters but you don't learn much about them. There are a lot of interesting secrets about this whole universe, but you get none solved, not even the small ones. In the end I had to skip through the last 200 pages, because it was just more fighting, fighting, fighting with every little detail – from putting on your damned boots to climbing up to one tower or another – containing nothing that would add more to the plot. Also: "It's that simple." If I have to read that sentence only one more time I am going to stick my head into a wall. Hard.I am really, really sorry I have to give this book only 2 stars, because it had so much potential and so many interesting ideas, but all the endless fighting-repetitions bored the hell out of me.***Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher who provided me with an ARC of this title.***
    • 5/5
      Will make a fantastic movie. One of the best definitely. I've read a lot of scifi and this had everything. Can't wait to read the rest.
    • 4/5
      Pretty good space opera. A bit of a quibble that some of the very big issues of the story weren't resolved, or at least had some progress made. But the whole book had one big story arc and that was completed. I will be buying and reading others in this series.
    • 3/5
      I don't normally log DNFs here but this book still has enough charm to warrant a look, if you're up for it. The action is genuinely fun and riveting. And there's lots of it! Yeah, it's basically Star Wars. When the action kicks in, it's well written, clearly staged and exciting. So what drags the book down? Dialogue. Ugh. The dialogue in this thing is terrible. Contrived characterisation and clunky exposition. That's not how people talk. I tried my best to shrug it off, but—sorry Drew Williams—I couldn't stomach it. There's definitely fun to be had here but I crumbled to a DNF about half way through.
    • 3/5
      I have a hard time of regarding this as anything other than a workmanlike adventure story but since that was what the author was going for who am I to criticize. What I do find myself being critical of is the whole phenomena of "the pulse," which scrambled galactic civilization in this milieu; its impact seemed more and more arbitrary as I got into the book and it seems to be basically Williams' way of stacking the deck in terms of the story he wants to tell.
    • 5/5
      This book falls squarely into the space opera sub-genre of science fiction with hints of military science fiction (lacking the military part, but there are a plenitude of space battles) and science fantasy. The premise is interesting -- rescuing children with mutant (think X-Men) powers who can save the universe and keeping them from being brainwashed by a fanatical sect of warriors. The plot device of The Pulse which lowers worlds to a lower technological level, but selects the level randomly and selects the planets at random was a bit of a challenge to accept in true science fiction and took a good amount of "willing suspension of disbelief."I enjoyed the book, but then after reading the Honor Harrington books, I am used to huge battles. I liked finding out more about this science fiction universe and its characters. I particularly liked the AI of the ship. Those were the pluses that would make this book a five-star book. One of things that lowered the book to 4.5 stars is the huge amount of profanity in the book. Were it not for that, it would probably be suitable for high school readers. The other is "The Pulse." I just kept reminding myself that it fit into science fantasy and kept reading. I'd suggest that people who enjoy science fiction, especially military SF, would enjoy the book. I liked it enough that I immediately bought the sequel.
    • 3/5
      I am not sure I'm going to read more in this series. Battle, battle, more battle, bit of plot, battle, plan for big battle, have big battle with lots of sub battles. Some of the battles were interesting, but after a while I would find myself skimming, hoping to get to more plot. I did want to know what happened, and would like to follow the characters more, but really. a. lot. of. battles. And a huge death count.
    • 3/5
      I received this book via NetGalley.The Stars Now Unclaimed is an almost non-stop adventure romp that utilizes the space opera setting to the fullest. Jane Kamali is one of the Justified, an agent who collects rare children born with abilities (think X-Men) and brings them back to a safe area where they can grow and be trained to become agents in their own right--a much nicer alternative than the fate offered by the Pax, who use Borg-esque methods to subjugate whole planets. Despite the benefits of space travel, many worlds use fairly primitive technology because of a horrific event a century before called the Pulse. Kamali's effort to extract a teenage girl, Esa, goes awry when the Pax attack. They flee the planet to discover the Pax are attacking everywhere. They gather more clues and allies as they flee for their lives.If you like battles of all sorts, well, you get battles of all sorts. The thing is, I found that tiresome after a while. I kept wanting more character development, more distinct characters, and instead had action scenes that blurred together after a while. That said, the spaceship AIs were one element that stood out that I really loved.
    • 4/5
      In many ways this is a very realistic novel about war, I mean as realistic as you can get with multiple planets being pushed back to the stone age. There is a lot of action intermixed with a lot of waiting for something to happen, in a good way.Free review copy.