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Kill by Numbers
By Loren Rhoads
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This “dark and brutal” sequel to The Dangerous Type blends space opera and military science fiction (Publishers Weekly).
No matter how hard Raena Zacari tries to leave her tormented past as an assassin behind, it always seems to catch up with her. First, there are the nightmares—a disturbing series of visions that always end with her shooting someone in the head. Then, there are the pirates—the rag-tag band of media-obsessed vigilantes who have taken a liking to Raena. And, of course, there’s the booby-trapped biotech, left by a now-extinct race known as the Templars, threatening to disrupt the entire galaxy.
As Raena is drawn into a twisted revenge plot waged from beyond the grave, she’ll have to trust her new allies on the starship Veracity and rely on her old friends Ariel and Kavanaugh to keep the galaxy from descending into chaos. But hunting an enemy that no longer exists isn’t just daunting—it may just be impossible.
Praised by Publishers Weekly as “an SF trilogy that seems determined to bring the style of grimdark fantasy to space opera,” Loren Rhoads’s In the Wake of the Templars trilogy is a brilliant and fast-talking genre mash-up that is “sure to please David Weber and Joel Shepherd fans” (Library Journal).
No matter how hard Raena Zacari tries to leave her tormented past as an assassin behind, it always seems to catch up with her. First, there are the nightmares—a disturbing series of visions that always end with her shooting someone in the head. Then, there are the pirates—the rag-tag band of media-obsessed vigilantes who have taken a liking to Raena. And, of course, there’s the booby-trapped biotech, left by a now-extinct race known as the Templars, threatening to disrupt the entire galaxy.
As Raena is drawn into a twisted revenge plot waged from beyond the grave, she’ll have to trust her new allies on the starship Veracity and rely on her old friends Ariel and Kavanaugh to keep the galaxy from descending into chaos. But hunting an enemy that no longer exists isn’t just daunting—it may just be impossible.
Praised by Publishers Weekly as “an SF trilogy that seems determined to bring the style of grimdark fantasy to space opera,” Loren Rhoads’s In the Wake of the Templars trilogy is a brilliant and fast-talking genre mash-up that is “sure to please David Weber and Joel Shepherd fans” (Library Journal).
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Loren Rhoads
Loren Rhoads is the author of This Morbid Life, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, a space opera trilogy, and a short story collection called Unsafe Words.She is also co-author -- with Brian Thomas -- of the As Above, So Below series: Lost Angels and Angelus Rose.See what she's up to next at lorenrhoads.com.
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Reviews for Kill by Numbers
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It’s tough to be a human in space. Other races look down on humans because they think of them as violent sociopaths. With the human empire disbanded, they are spread out across the galaxy trying to make a living. This brings us to former assassin Raena who is trying to get a new start on board the alien space ship,the Veracity. Raena has a complicated past, she was a prisoner as the Templars were wiped out by a genetic plague and the situation has created some bad psychological effects.Raena is having nightmares of shooting her ex-lover in the head and she has to deal with the fact that the now extinct Templars have left booby-trapped biotechnology throughout the galaxy and her ship is infected. Raena and the pirate crew that she is with must learn to trust each other and figure out how to fix the booby-trapped technology or the galactic economy could collapse.Kill By Numbers by Loren Rhoads is the second book in the wake of the Templars series and could be best described as a character driven action adventure story. This book starts off slow and gets deep into the character’s personalities before getting into the story. The thing I really enjoy about Loren Rhoads writing is that she creates characters that seem real and gives a lot of detail on them. To me the sign of a great character in a book is if you want to read about them even if there is no conflict with them. I love good character development in a story before we get into the action and Kill By Numbers does an excellent job of it.I love the concept behind this book, Raena is a human on a ship of aliens so Raena doesn’t fit in. Raena is trying to start a new life and escape her past, the crew of the Veracity is trying to help but what they want for her and what she wants for herself are two different things. Everyone on the ship is a different kind of alien but because of her past, Raena is the oddest one. I liked the idea that everyone on the ship was so different making it like a melting pot of races.Another interesting aspect of this book is how the media is portrayed in this futuristic setting. The crew of the ship gathers at the same time every day to see the news and then talk about the new scandals across the galaxy. The media are a lot like how it is in the present and everything that goes on in the news is seen as truth even if there are no facts to back it up. The media are a small part of the story but I liked how even in the future people are addicted to getting information about other political systems and alien races. The best part of the book is the relationship between Raena and Gavin. Gavin wants to help Raena with her new life but seems to hurt her as he tries to help. Kill By Numbers is like an action packed soap opera in space and the kind of book that hard-core Science Fiction fans will love.