≡ PDF Free The Long Way Home Sequoyah Book 1 eBook Sabrina Chase

The Long Way Home Sequoyah Book 1 eBook Sabrina Chase

Download As PDF : The Long Way Home Sequoyah Book 1 eBook Sabrina Chase

The Long Way Home Sequoyah Book 1 eBook Sabrina Chase

The Long Way Home begins with perhaps one of the best examples of ‘in media res’ that I have read recently. The story which came before is revealed slowly, by the reluctant hero who wanted only to die… and instead saves the day. Moire, our heroine, goes on to think she only lives because she fears pain. But she rediscovers herself when she becomes responsible for others, and must care for them. Her life becomes a thing worth having when it means she protects others.

If you read my reviews, you know I have a thing for creaky trader starships with plucky crews. I have a thing for characters who are human, but have honor, loyalty, and come to life in my head. The Long Way Home provides those. It also gives us vast interstellar conspiracies, with hints of just how low the company which has replaced (or, as it is hinted, overthrown violently) NASA will go. I’m not going to give you all the plot, or reveal some of the twists. I’ll let you go and discover them for yourself.

The writing is smooth and compelling. I wasn’t thrown out of the story, that I recall (1:00 AM!!). I think if I had to compare it to another writer, that might be Elizabeth Moon’s Serrano series. Here you will find the colony worlds, the slow attrition of an alien war, and the disillusioned Fleet struggling to insterpose their thin line of defense between the enemy and humanity.

I highly recommend this book.


Tags : The Long Way Home (Sequoyah Book 1) - Kindle edition by Sabrina Chase. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Long Way Home (Sequoyah Book 1).,ebook,Sabrina Chase,The Long Way Home (Sequoyah Book 1),Worlds Away Press,FICTION Science Fiction Action & Adventure,FICTION Science Fiction Space Opera

The Long Way Home Sequoyah Book 1 eBook Sabrina Chase Reviews

Far as I can reckon, I've been a science fiction fan for as long as I've been conscious (possibly longer, but how would I know?... ). It's sunk into the background radiation of my universe, seldom any more reflected-on than the edges of my nose in my visual field.

Every now and then, however, something arises that makes Ground snap into Figure, that re-minds me what a Wonder and a Groove it is that so many worlds live in my world, so many possibilities crowd round the edges of my workaday life.

I have just had such an experience, during these hours after having finished DEVOURING Sabrina Chase's "Sequoia" trilogy.

From the gripping opening sequence of a desperate space battle, I was securely captured by the gravitic field of protagonist Moire's resolute, reckless, enigmatically despairing attitude, and the brilliant tactics that they made available to her. I was determined to understand the curious mixture of determination and death wish that drove her to try the Impossible (because, 'What the hell?').

And it never did let go, even as her secret Pain/Debt/Duty, her altogether untenable circumstances, her adroit adaptiveness, her poignantly paradoxical humanity came into incrementally clearer focus.

Chase has accomplished similarly daunting things She has introduced and illuminated a rich, sprawling, textured, *Inhabited* universe, populated by individuals who act and speak from recognizable, organic cores (finishing a chapter, foggy from sleeplessness, I'd lost track of who was speaking in a dialog sequence...but did not have to check back, because a moment's reflection revealed that the character's Voice was so familiar --and so distinct from the other's-- that I realized I didn't *have* to!).

Chase has created an interlocking set of believable technologies, sociopolitical dynamics, and historical residues (including lived-in lingoes for assorted groups) ... And she has done so with nary an Infodump to be found!

Things emerge as they become relevant, progressively reveal the assiduously consistent Rules by which they operate, are discussed with the subtextual verisimilitude of the mundane (When was the last time you called your phone a "hand-held capacitant-input/output communication and computing device?").

The storytelling is brisk and deft and exquisitely paced. The stakes and risks unfold precisely as they must to drive a tale that consistently feels neither rushed nor sluggish. Action is handled with the precision of veteran war reportage, yet resonates with the humanity of a personal diary.

There are simply NO cardboard characters in this entire series. Let me stress this, lest it get lost *Everyone* in this series behaves and speaks as one with a history, and a set of motivations and priorities that have evolved from that history. Even one-line Toughs leer or smirk or twitch in ways that suggest a story there just wasn't time to tell.

Great gods on garlic bread, that's HARD to do! But Chase does it, with gracefully unobtrusive ease, as though she were transcribing the video logs of things that had transpired in the lives of people she happened to know.

Between this and that, I have read embarrassingly little fiction of late. And yet I consumed this trilogy in a matter of days! And I lately had the familiar bittersweet mixture of glee and grief as I read what it took me some moments to realize had been its last words.

I hope most fervently that you will presently know *exactly* what I'm talking about!
Ok, I just finished all three books and it was one of those 'can't put it down' kinda reads that makes you wish there were at least ten books in the epic! It's sad, but I'll never be able to read it for the first time ever again! ) I really hope that this author further develops this intriguing universe (galaxy) that she has created. I want MORE! It is full of lots more swash buckling promise!

I won't give away any details to spoil it because I hate when people do that. But it has the human morality of say, a Star Trek, where the good guys are really good and loyal (often under a rough and sometimes damaged facade) and the bad guys are really bad and sometimes crazy as well and the good guys are constantly seriously breaking the rules- all in the name of loyalty and boldly choosing the lesser of evils. Even the borderline characters come around and begin to aid the 'cause' when they discover the unlikely nature of what's really going on.

The story ebbs and flows. It's not solid action by any means. But it has a sustainable rhythm which is very satisfying unless you are an absolute adrenaline junkie. In fact, at times I thought it was downright boring for certain stretches. But always there was this promise or thread... however thin that remained unbroken and sustained me into the next exciting and desperate stretch. There is quite a bit of character development. You grow to love or hate and fear the characters. There's no gratuitous violence and what violence there is, makes perfect sense without being soul scarring graphic or too diabolically evil.

Transported me out of the present and myself and into a quirky galaxy with sorta time travel and made it all very heart poundingly real. Great read. )
The Long Way Home begins with perhaps one of the best examples of ‘in media res’ that I have read recently. The story which came before is revealed slowly, by the reluctant hero who wanted only to die… and instead saves the day. Moire, our heroine, goes on to think she only lives because she fears pain. But she rediscovers herself when she becomes responsible for others, and must care for them. Her life becomes a thing worth having when it means she protects others.

If you read my reviews, you know I have a thing for creaky trader starships with plucky crews. I have a thing for characters who are human, but have honor, loyalty, and come to life in my head. The Long Way Home provides those. It also gives us vast interstellar conspiracies, with hints of just how low the company which has replaced (or, as it is hinted, overthrown violently) NASA will go. I’m not going to give you all the plot, or reveal some of the twists. I’ll let you go and discover them for yourself.

The writing is smooth and compelling. I wasn’t thrown out of the story, that I recall (100 AM!!). I think if I had to compare it to another writer, that might be Elizabeth Moon’s Serrano series. Here you will find the colony worlds, the slow attrition of an alien war, and the disillusioned Fleet struggling to insterpose their thin line of defense between the enemy and humanity.

I highly recommend this book.