Adem lives onboard the Hajj, his family’s trading vessel. The first POV is a soft spoken spaceship-born maintenance worker named Adem. The major metropolis here is saturated with the poor living in shanty-towns bordered by the elite and upper-class. This story plays with 2 different POVs and takes place in the 3200s where space elevators are common and trade ships frequent the galaxy. I honestly didn’t know a lot going into this book (by preference) so right from the get go the story was very intriguing and engaging. Onboard the Hajj, Hisako soon learns her dilemmas are overshadowed by the discovery of ancient secrets, a derelict warship, and a chance at giving the survivors of Earth a fresh start. The arcane branch of physics it requires her to study broke off a thousand years before, and she is not keen on the idea of giving up everything she knows to marry a stranger and move onto an aging spaceship. In exchange for an education, better housing for her family, and a boost out of poverty, she’s been contracted into an arranged marriage to Adem Sadiq, a maintenance engineer and amateur musician who works and lives aboard his family’s sub-light freighter, the Hajj. Hisako Saski was born with her life already mapped out. Narrators: Roisin Rankin, George WeightmanĪ long-lost battleship and an arranged marriage may hold the key to faster-than-light travel and humanity’s future in R.W.W. An Amazon ‘Editor’s Pick’ for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy!
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