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Amaranthe I: Rise

Amaranthe Collections, Book 1

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AURORA RISING: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION: Over 45 Hours of Epic Sci-Fi Adventure

Includes the entire 1st trilogy in the Amaranthe series (Starshine, Vertigo, Transcendence)

Aurora Rising is an epic tale of galaxy-spanning adventure, of the thrill of discovery and the unquenchable desire to reach ever farther into the unknown. It's a tale of humanity at its best and worst, of love and loss, of fear and heroism. It's the story of a woman who sought the stars and found more than anyone imagined possible.
When faced with its greatest challenge, will humanity rise to triumph or fall to ruin?

STARSHINE
SPACE IS VAST AND UNTAMED, AND IT HOLDS MANY SECRETS. Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets, even as the world threatens to explode around them.
Alexis Solovy is Earth Alliance royalty, her father a fallen war hero and her mother a military leader. She seeks only the freedom of space and has made a fortune as a freelance scout by reading the patterns in the chaos to discover the hidden wonders of the stars. But a chance encounter with a mysterious spy thrusts Alex into the middle of an interstellar war and a sinister conspiracy.

VERTIGO
Where do you run when there is no escape? Where do you turn when the enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy unknown?

TRANSCENDENCE
What does it mean to be human? What if the price of saving humanity is giving up your own?
The lines blur between man and machine, ally and enemy, and soldier and civilian. In a final stand against an ancient, powerful foe intent on eradicating it from the universe, humanity comes face to face with its destiny.

©2015 G. S. Jennsen (P)2022 G. S. Jennsen
Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Interstellar War Emotionally Gripping
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I'm a handful of chapters in, and I already know this will get pumped into my DNF list. - I've found there to be a lot of made up Techno-waffle that seems to be entirely irrelevant to anything meaningful.

my second gripe is that the narrators inconsistent cadence and inflection makes the whole thing sound like it's being read by a B-grade AI reader.

ultimately underwhelming, and fails to grab you in the early portion, and leaves you wondering at what point its going to get good enough to make it worth while. disappointing purchase.

Unlikely to finish

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