RATING: FOUR STARS
Awakening is the third instalment of Randolph Lalonde's stunning space opera, Spinward Fringe, and follows on directly from where its predecessor tailed off to continue Captain Jake Valance's search for his long-lost daughter, Alice.
After making the decision that living the life of a mercenary and contracted debt collector won't be enough to help him find his daughter and unveil his forgotten past, Captain Valance follows through with his plan to take up privateering again and sides with a powerful solar system in its war against Reagent Galactic; ensuring that they use their intelligence network to search for Alice as part of his pay while he runs riot with his crew aboard the Samson.
My Thoughts
Awakening is an exciting read right from the off and Lalonde manages to maintain the pace of the story throughout the book - making it extremely difficult to put down! Furthermore, Lalonde adds a sense of sentimentality to the story that I really liked by including chapters based around characters from the previous books, adding deep side-stories of their lives and how the loss of Jacob Valent, the captain of the First Light, has effected them.
After reading Awakening then, I would say that it fits in nicely with the previous Spinward Fringe stories. It is innovative and packed full of the imaginative technology and real-life workings that I have come to expect from the series - meaning that it is still the best and most exciting space opera that I've read to date!
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