Review: Chaos Reigning

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As the youngest member of her High House, Catarina von Hasenberg is used to being underestimated, but her youth and flighty, bubbly personality mask a clever mind and stubborn determination. Her enemies, blind to her true strength, do not suspect that Cat is a spy—which makes her the perfect candidate to go undercover at a rival House’s summer retreat to gather intelligence on their recent treachery. Cat’s overprotective older sister reluctantly agrees, but on one condition: Cat cannot go alone. Alexander Sterling, a quiet, gorgeous bodyguard, will accompany her, posing as her lover. After Cat tries, and fails, to ditch Alex, she grudgingly agrees, confident in her ability to manage him. After all, she’s never found a person she can’t manipulate. But Alex proves more difficult—and more desirable—than Cat anticipated. When she’s attacked and nearly killed, she and Alex are forced to work together to figure out how deep the treason goes. With rumors of widespread assaults on Serenity raging, communications down, and the rest of her family trapped off-planet, Catarina must persuade Alex to return to Earth to expose the truth and finish this deadly battle once and for all. But Cat can’t explain why she’s the perfect person to infiltrate hostile territory without revealing secrets she’d rather keep buried. . . .

Genre: science fiction / science fiction romance

Publication date: May 2020

Mature content: yes

Review: Chaos Reigning is the third and final installment in The Consortium Rebellion series by Jessie Mihalik and while technically it can be read as a stand alone, I recommend you to read books one (Polaris Rising) and two (Aurora Blazing) first - especially because they are just as amazing too. 

 

Chaos Reigning was unexpected. It closely follows the other two books, but while the plot started out a little bit slower, it certainly evolved into something I was not foreseeing at all, and nothing short of epic. I didn't care much for the way Kat and Alex first met (or glanced at each other, before Kat even knew who he was), but their romance did make me smile all the way through. 

I'm already missing this series, all the characters and their science fiction world. I'm sorry to see them go and I wish there were also books about the other three von Hasenberg siblings - because I'm pretty sure they would have some interesting stories of their own...

 

 

 

 

If science fiction with realistic characters, non-stop action, unexpected twists and turns and a hot romance thrown in is your thing, then you definitely should not miss this series!

 

Happy readings,

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