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Lieutenant Ramie Ashdyn is going home--or rather, to the hellhole that is her home world. With vengeance driving her, she's intent on tracking down the criminal who can help her unravel the conspiracy that's threatening the Coalition. Unfortunately, old enemies are sabotaging her efforts, jeopardizing the lives of the few people she trusts. To accomplish her mission, she'll need to be cunning and ruthless, and that means scrapping her conscience and burying emotions are adversaries could exploit.
Of course, being cunning and ruthless would be easier if the Coalition hadn't sent "Rest in Peace" Rykus to retrieve her. Ash is the only person who can detect the telepaths who have infiltrated the government, and Rykus must keep her safe until they can escape the planet. But with secrets between them and Ash determined to contact the Known Universe's most feared crime lord, staying alive--and together--might be an insurmountable feat.
Genre: science fiction / science fiction romance
Publication date: January 2021
Mature content: yes
Review: While I absolutely and irrevocably loved books one (Shades of Treason) and two (Shades of Honor) of this Anomaly series.This third book, however, was a lot harder to get into and left me slightly disappointed.
First, it's longer than any of the others. There's so much happening that the story could have easily been broken into two books. That it wasn't means that there is a lot of plot to digest - and, at the same time, not enough detail shed on some parts.
For example, I never understood why Rykus managed to arrive on Glory when he did. I assume it was because he wanted to help Ash with whatever she was dealing with, but it didn't feel exactly natural or that well explained. There's a whole subplot from book two (Ash's dealings with Rykus' sister) that I had expected to be covered in this one - and instead we are left on a cliffhanger in relation to that (in the bonus epilogue you can access after the end of Shades of Allegiance the author "promises" to write a whole new book about it, but so far it hasn't happened. And there are pieces of the plot literally missing at the end - you never really get to see how Ash killed her nemesis and got rid of half a dozen anomalies, how exactly she ended up on Tahn's ship, and how he managed to break the loyalty training. All that works well in the story, but deserved more detail.
Don't get me wrong, Shades of Allegiance is still a great book, and if you've read the first two you need to read this one. I still loved living Ash's and Rykus' adventures with them and wish there more books in the series, but it's just not as good as the first two.
Happy readings,
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