Yes, I did just make you picture a person you've never seen before tipping a hat in your direction as a way of saying hello. Don't y'all just love me? If I were you id probably be picturing a shadowing figure somewhat like a demon standing in a corner with a big ten gallon hat on tipping it. And yes I just called myself a demon.
Anyway, I do have a purpose for this post not just, you know, having a one sided conversation with imaginary people. The purpose is to tell all y'all about a fabulous book. This book is called Zenith and it is the first book in the Andromeda Saga. I thought it was absolutely fab for several reasons which I may or may not reveal later in the review.
The Characters:
- Andromeda Racella- Andi. She is the captain of the Starship Marauder and a feared mercenary known across the Miracle Galaxy as the Bloody Baroness.
- Breck- Very strong powerful alien who due to her species is virtually indestructible.
- Gilly- So take a nine or ten year old girl and give her the rage of a teenager in abad mood. That basically gives you Gilly. She is pretty awesome if I say so myself.
- Lira- She's much less violent than the other three and calmer. Andi calls her the best pilot in the Galaxy
Where are all the male characters? you ask "All of the characters here are girls who are kick-butt (feel free it insert stronger language if you wish) and thats great but they can't be all the main characters, right?" Well you would be marginally right. These are four incredibly amazing kick-butt female main characters, but there are two guys and I can only tell you about one of them. So here goes. I present to you, the only male main character I can describe without spoiling things,
- DEXTRO- he comes in in chapter four and that itself would be a crime to reveal anymore than this. But, I will say this he is one of the main causes of the girls adventures.
So now that I've infuriated you or on the other hand made you curious with those character descriptions on to why I loved this book. So first of all who doesn't love a good sci-fi/adventure story? However, the real reason for my absolute love of this book lies in the amount of power in the female characters. FOUR, I repeat four female main characters that aren't a love interest. Four girls with their own individual backstories and complicated histories, and guess what their part in the story isn't as a love interest. That never happens anymore. I mean yeah you can argue that Katniss was a character like that but she ended up a little like every other cliché female character ever but also a little in reverse. She became just the daring archer who fell in love with someone she originally had no chance with and defied all the odds. Bit like Romeo and Juliet. Anyway, that makes all these characters that much more awesome.
I recommend for thirteen/fourteen year olds and above. especially girls. Everybody deserves representations like this. Ten of Ten paw prints 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Farewell,
Merlin:)
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