Drayden has a distinct unique outlook on life or at least
her writing does. This is a book about a
colony ship. It is designed to last for
as many generations as needed to get to a viable planet. However the ship becomes inadequate for its
population and the passengers discover they can inhabit vast beasts that travel
between the stars. The current beast is
not in peak health and that leads to tensions and rebellion in the colonists.
Drayden tells a good story and provides a setting that is
only vaguely similar to the Farscape ship, Moya. The hierarchy within this ship is matrilineal
and class based. The classes
restlessness reflects the restlessness of current society where the top 400
wealthiest families have more wealth than the rest of the population
combined. It is a system destined to
fail and we see they same signs of failure in our current political and class
based country.
Seske is the up and coming ruler but hates the thought while
not being able or wiling to give up her position. Being her friend is fraught with peril.
Drayden provides an interesting social structure and biology
for the ship.
I enjoyed the book.
This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.
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