Psychic Pirates..... In SPACE!!!!!

Mercy Kincaid was born a pirate. Her mother ran from their family when Mercy was 3 years old, after the death of her father. Mercy’s mother kept her safe until she was 13 when she didn’t come home. Mercy did as she was trained from infancy to do, she ran and kept running until she found a safe place with a grizzled ex-naval smuggler and his daughter.

Many years pass and Mercy and her best friend are still searching for Mercy’s mother. It leads them into a trap, where Mercy is tortured, with her friend held as collateral damage.

Reaper is a psychic Killer, one the most fear people in the universe. He’s able to see how to kill everyone he meets and executes it flawlessly. He has been sent by his King to find and rescue the daughter of an ally and when he does, he finds more than he bargains for and finds the lost grandchild of the previous Pirate Queen.

I loved this story. How could I not love a story about psychic space pirates??? Apart from loving the premise, I really enjoyed the story. The world building was really interesting with great explanations about how the pirate society got started and why.

I liked both Mercy and Reaper both as individuals and as a couple. They had an instant spark but still needed to build on it. Reaper is cold and unemotional, as are all Killers. However, he was raised by an empathic mother and this has made him a little bit more accessible than most Killers.

The plot was complex and interesting. It interwove the Pirate society, the threat from the authority of the allied planets and all the threat from the hidden psychics within that society. There was a lot that Mercy had to deal with and she handled it pretty well considering.

I liked the narrator on this audio book, Carly Robins, and have listened to books she’s read before. She’s matter of fact with her delivery and doesn’t go over the top with acting the parts. She differentiates between voices, though in a few parts that differentiation went a little bit wobbly and it was hard to tell who was talking. But on the whole her delivery was engaging and enjoyable.

This is a good first book to a series as it gives a good background for any future work, lures you into getting the next book, but doesn’t drive you too nuts with a cliffhanger. I’d happily read/listen to the next book.

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