Review: Gabriel's Ghost

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After a decade of piloting interstellar patrol ships, former captain Chasidah Bergren, onetime pride of the Sixth Fleet, finds herself court-martialed for a crime she didn’ t commit–and shipped off to a remote prison planet from which no one ever escapes. But when she kills a brutal guard in an act of self-defense, someone even more dangerous emerges from the shadows.

Gabriel Sullivan—alpha mercenary, smuggler, and rogue—is supposed to be dead. Yet now this seductive ghost from Chaz’s past is offering her a ticket to freedom—for a price. Someone in the Empire is secretly breeding jukors: vicious and uncontrollable killing machines that have long been outlawed. Gabriel needs Chaz to help him stop the practice before it decimates Imperial space. The mission means putting their lives on the line—but the tensions that heat up between them may be the riskiest part of all.

Genre: science fiction, science fiction romance

Publication date: October 2005

Mature content: yes

Review: Gabriel's Ghost is an older book but one I only recently - due to my latest science fiction obsession - came across. By the end, I was absolutely in love with Chaz and Gabriel/Sully, and I was fascinated by the original, intricate and action filled plot and all the amazing secondary characters. 

 

 

 

 

 

But the beginning of the book is very confusing, since you land smack in the middle of a story. I felt I must have missed something important, like a previous book or a prequel, but no - that's just the way Gabriel's Ghost works: you are fed bits and pieces of Chaz and Gabriel's past along the way, until you finally, as the book progresses, start to get a better image of who they are. Also, the dynamics between Chaz and Gabriel/Sully isn't always the best, there's a lot of them going back and forth over lies, omissions and the like. This is the main reason why I'm rating it it with four stars instead of five.

 

There were several occasions, while reading those first few chapters, where I even debated putting the book aside and move on. Now I'm truly glad I didn't - and since I'm not ready to part with Chaz and Sully, I'm definitely reading book two in this Dock Five Universe series.

  

Happy readings,

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