Starshine: Aurora Rising Book One: 1 (Amaranthe) Paperback – Import, 18 November 2016

Good

I liked the concept of this novel which is not very unrealistic given the human nature and advancement. The author has done a good job in writing in detail about new concepts as they can be a bit confusing otherwise. There is adequate attention to detail. Alexis and Caleb's predicaments are nothing out of the ordinary and this is something many will be able to relate with. Apart from these two my favourite characters were Miriam and Graham. I liked the waving tone and nature of the story which takes you through a bumpy ride throughout the novel. A good one.

A genuinely enjoyable page-turner full of political intrigue, interesting characters, and the start of what promises to be a fantastic trilogy.Anyone with a penchant for a well-crafted, non-cliched sci-if plot will love Starshine; it's a beautifully-paced read and absolutely leaves you wanting more. I will be waiting impatiently for book 2!

Good book

Nicely written and keeps you engaged through & through.

Having now read all of the 'Amaranth' series I can't recommend them enough, proper sci-fi, a great (and quite expansive) cast of of well rounded characters, several interwoven story lines that over the course of the series draw themselves together combined with a scale and scope that matches the greats of the past means this really is a series for fans of proper sci-fi, do yourself a favour and buy it!

So you think you'll try one or two books and see how it goes. Think again! This story is addictive, you will want more. And there is also that age old question... "What if...?"

Dieses Buch war für mich eine echte Entdeckung. Die Charaktere sind komplex und interessant, der Plot hochspannend, das beschriebene Universum samt Technik stimmig und die politischen Verwicklungen zwischen den rivalisierenden Parteien überzeugend, ohne zu langweilen.Noch ein Pluspunkt - für mich bei Serien superwichtig: Es endet nicht nur NICHT mit einem unangenehmen Cliffhanger, sondern die Folgebände fassen die vorhergegangenen Ereignisse kurz zusammen. Man könnte im Prinzip jedes Buch der Serie auch einzeln lesen oder den nächsten Band mit einigem Abstand, ohne dass man Verständnisprobleme hat.Sehr empfehlenswert.

I really, really enjoyed this book. Though I groaned at the title, not another Aurora! This must be the most over used word in SciFi book titles on Amazon. If you read a lot of cheap Kindle editions, it becomes very hard to keep them straight. Seems like every other book has Aurora in the title. Stop the Madness!Anyway, despite the title, I LOVED the book. The chapters with the two main characters are simply fantastic. The chapters without out them do seem to drag on a bit, but they are necessary to build up the political structure that the author then sets on fire and watches it implode.I have to be honest, one of the things I really did enjoy was the incredibly steamy sex scene. It is so enjoyable to read it from a female author's point of view. It's so different from all the male oriented crap that fills the cheap Kindle pages. Here, the author focuses on taste and scent, whereas for a guy, it's usually about looks and feel. I found the shift in perspective delightful, and the entire episode is so well written, with such vivid intensity and tremendous emotional highs and lows and risks and fears and exquisite joy and anguish. It's just superb. I even made my wife read it :-)The technology in the book is...appropriate to the story line. The integrated quantum communications link is sort of taken for granted and not explained (and how can quantum comms be disrupted by a nebula????), but generally, there are no glaring issues, and as stated, it helps establish the story, not subtract from it. I'm totally in with where she is going on the tech side.I was disappointed in the length of the book. As the author's first foray into this world of self-publishing, I can see wanting to dip a toe in the waters, but I am hating the trend of never finishing a story line and stringing it out into volume after volume (three in this particular case). I miss the good old days when an author would write a book, with a beginning, middle, and end.Nonetheless. I look forward to Jennsen's continuation of this particular story, though how she can keep up the quality of Chapter 47 remains to be seen....

I was quite disappointed when I went looking for volume two and found out there wasn't one yet and there were no more books by this author, unless there are some under another name. The author writes too well to believe he has only published one so far. Excellent varieties of characters and interesting plot. The many intricacies in this plot demand that you give the book your full attention. All in all, an excellent book.