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The House of Saints

Venus Ascendant, Book 2

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By: Derek Kunsken
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
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The Stunning conclusion to the Venus Ascendant series, from the world of The Quantum Magician.

George-Étienne and his children have formed The House of Styx, after finding a mysterious artefact on the surface of Venus herself. But with the discovery comes great risk, not only from a planet that kills with its very touch but also from the banks and powers of old Earth, who will stop at nothing to claim this new technology for themselves. From humble origins, The House of Styx is determined to become one of the most powerful families in the known galaxy or die trying.

©2023 Derek Kunsken (P)2023 Recorded Books Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Solar System Fiction

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Great character development, exciting plot, believable characters, and a fantastic and vivid setting. 15 word minimum.

Excellent sci fi!

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Once again, the author brings together a natural world, a theoretical world, and a different social order to both engross the listener or reader and make them think.

Well-written, and transporting for the listener. Just fantastic. Balancing marginalized people and how they contribute against a "when do we eat grandma?" level of survival need in a failing colony on a hostile planet.

Hard sci-fi meets phenomenal character development

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I cannot stand the narrator's breathless style. Maybe she was struggling to breathe in the slight wisps of plot that drifted by in the otherwise hot dense unbreathable atmosphere of this book. Now we know the back story of the Venusian Congregate. Check.

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an interesting origin story for the congregate. but the reader ruins it with the odd breathless pausing.

Reader ruins it.

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Having read the quantum evolution series, I was excited for this series on Venus. However rather than the hard science fiction I hoped for about a third of the pages are devoted to a homosexual / transsexual romance novel. Made creepy by the fact one of the lovers is an adult and the other 16.
Id be just as unimpressed if as many pages were spent on a srraight romance rather than gay /trans. Poorly written romance between Adults and minors is just not what I was looking for in a sci fi series. and a strange choice by the author. I guess the mesaage is that Venus is the trailer park of the solar system.

More of an alternative romance novel than sci-fi with bonus satutory rape.

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