Review: Zakota

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Katie Saunders isn’t used to sitting on her butt, but she’s been stuck doing exactly that as the Star Guardians fly all over the galaxy, trying to get her and the other kidnapped women back home. Now it looks like they have to engage in a battle against evil aliens before making the final flight to Earth. Since they’ve captured an extra ship and are short on pilots, Katie wants to help. She flew jets during her time in the Navy, and she’s been training on the spaceship’s flight simulator, so she knows she can be useful. Because the captain won’t listen to her, she turns her focus onto the ship’s helm officer, Zakota. He’s an odd man who apparently believes he’s a shaman, but maybe she can convince him she can fly. Wheeling and dealing with Zakota reveals a couple of unexpected things. First off, he’s super hot under that uniform, and second, he’s not quite as kooky as she thought. As a fellow pilot, he gets her, far better than she expected anyone out here would, and he’s quick to see her worth in the cockpit. The problem? There’s not time for them to get to know each other better or much of anything else. They’re headed into a battle against a superior foe with superior numbers, and the odds are against them making it out alive.

Genre: science fiction romance

Publication date: September 2017

Mature content: yes

Review: From the science fiction/space adventure point of view, Zakota is probably one of the best books in the Star Guardians series by Ruby Lionsdrake. It's book 5, and closely books one (Orion), two (Treyjon), three (Sagitta) and four (Hierax). It's also the conclusion of the original series, the end of the adventure that started when a group of women was abducted from Earth by slavers and ended up with them returning with a status sort of similar to heroes, together with the Star Guardians that saved them. The five books are all episodes of that same story, and therefore not meant as stand alones.

 

I had a lot of fun with Zakota and Katie, and there were lots of places throughout the story where I found myself smiling or even laughing out loud.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only part I didn't really like all that much and I could have done without was the epilogue. Because this was supposed to be the last book in the series, there's sort of a multiple points of view epilogue, as seen from the eyes of each of the main female characters in each of the books. While I find the idea fairly original, I didn't feel it added all that much to the story - when compared with the non-stop action of the rest of the plot, this last part is kind of boring and anti-climatic.

There's one more book in the series, which seems to be a later add-on, but now that I have read all five in a row I definitely need to I read that one too. I'll post a review as soon as I finish it.

I understand these books are not for everyone, and some installments in the series are better than others, but if you love the genre, you shouldn't miss them.

Happy readings,

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