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Title: DARK SPACE |  |
Mira Fedor is destined for greatness. She comes from a line that has been blessed with an Inborn gene that will mean she will become First Pilot on graduation. But the ruling family has other ideas and Mira finds herself on the run and involved in an invasion of a remote mining planet, linked to the discovery of a powerful and alien entity.
Mira starts to realise these events are all interlinked, and her discoveries lead her to even darker secrets.
DARK SPACE is the first book in the Sentients of Orion series, and sets up a world based on warring families and intrigues worthy of a 12th century Italian city state.
DARK SPACE is a difficult book to get into. The story line seems to lurch between situations with little coherence, leaving the reader wondering if they have missed a few pages. Even the central character is rather shallowly drawn, and takes on the caricature of the "femme fatale". Other characters are treated with even less respect.
I am normally a big fan of SF and Fantasy written by women, but I can't help wondering if this time around there was a subtext I just kept missing. It isn't going to stop me tracking down other books by Marianne de Pierres, however.