Some sort of civil war has been going on for some time between two factions, The Accord and the Free Limits, with the former getting the upper hand and now dictating terms and policies all across the colonized worlds: it’s clear that there is a great deal of resentment still going on, something that still bleeds over interactions and colors the way day-to-day business is conducted. Her mention of Mad Max, Firefly and Dune was more than enough to pique my interest, and the story proved to be a non-stop, breathless adventure that led me to the discovery of a well-crafted, intriguing alien world.Said world, or rather moon, is Factus, a place mostly inhabited by ex-convicts, smugglers and die-hard settlers trying to eke out a harsh life in a place that is mostly deserts and barren plains. Ten Low is another discovery I owe to my fellow book lovers, and in this specific case to Tammy at Books, Bones and Buffy. Something that threatens to reveal Ten's worst nightmare: the truth of who she really is and what she is running from. But something else waits in the darkness at the universe's edge. Their road won't be easy: they must cross the moon's lawless wastes, facing military hit squads, bandits and the one-eyed leader of an all-female road gang, in a frantic race to get the General to safety. The pair bury their hatreds and strike an uneasy deal to smuggle the General off-world. Worse, Ten realises the crash was an assassination attempt, and that someone wants the Ortiz dead. The result of a military genetics programme, she is a decorated Army General, from the opposing side of the war to Ten. One night, attempting to atone for her sins, she pulls a teenage girl – the sole survivor – from the wreck of a spaceship. She's desperate to escape her memories of the interstellar war, and the crimes she committed, but trouble seems to follow wherever she goes. Ten Low is an ex-army medic, one of many convicts eking out a living at the universe's edge. Firefly meets Dune in a breakneck race to escape across an alien moon thriving with aliens and criminals
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