RATING: FOUR STARS
Picking up the Spinward Fringe saga a number of years after the conclusion of The First Light Chronicles, Resurrection tells the story of Jake Valance as he wakes up scared and alone aboard the Samson - a battered and derelict cargo ship that is drifting through empty space.
Jake Valance has no memories of his past when he wakes - knowing nothing at all about his life except that he has a daughter, Alice, whom he saw waking him from cryogenic sleep before having to flee the ship on a security feed. Determined to find his daughter and unravel his past, Captain Valance turns to the only skills he has to make a living - paying his mercenary crew via privateering, repossessing illegal space ships and chasing lucrative bounties.
Resurrection then, is a faced paced novella that is full of action from start to finish. Lalonde's prose is as engaging as ever and works well to create a new host of dynamic characters that again respond to events around them in very a believable manner. This, along with the realistic social infrastructure of his universe, gives the book a sense of plausibility that added greatly to my enjoyment of it.
Thus, I would say that Resurrection is an impressive and enjoyable sequel to The First Light Chronicles and continues to make Spinward Fringe a series that is well-worth investing in.
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