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Dark Horse

Class 5 Series, Book 1

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Some secrets carry the weight of the world.

Rose McKenzie may be far from Earth with no way back, but she's made a powerful ally—a fellow prisoner with whom she's formed a strong bond. Sazo's an artificial intelligence. He's saved her from captivity and torture, but he's also put her in the middle of a conflict, leaving Rose with her loyalties divided.

Captain Dav Jallan doesn't know why he and his crew have stumbled across an almost legendary Class 5 battleship, but he's not going to complain. The only problem is, all its crew are dead—all except for one strange, new alien being.

She calls herself Rose. She seems small and harmless, but less and less about her story is adding up, and Dav has a bad feeling his crew, and maybe even the four planets, are in jeopardy. The Class 5's owners, the Tecran, look set to start a war to get it back and Dav suspects Rose isn't the only alien being who survived what happened on the Class 5. And whatever else is out there is playing its own games.

In this race for the truth, he's going to have to go against his leaders and trust the dark horse.

Winner of a SFR Galaxy Award 2016 and the Prism Award 2016 for Best Futuristic.

©2016 Michelle Diener (P)2016 Podium Audio Fiction Romance Science Fiction Space Opera
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Original and fascinating. A great pleasure to listen to. I look forward to more .

*****

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I’ve had this book for ages and just haven’t got to reading it but because it had whispersync I was able to buy the audio at a bargain price. I’m so glad I did. It’s the first time that I’ve actually stopped doing other things in order to listen to an audiobook (rather than listening while doing those other things). I ended up spending a lot longer than I expected listening but wasn’t sorry (except that it was over all too quickly.) Looks like the series is going to have individual storylines with new characters in the existing world but that’s OK because book one came to its own satisfactory conclusion and I’m ready to visit some of those other planets and cultures.

Great space romance with a great narrator

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first time reading this author and I thought I'd try with help from reviews.
it was a clever scifi whodunit. for me, it was a bit too detective and I prefer a bit more romance.
I've been a fan of ruby lionsdake, Anna carven, zoey draven and Anna Hackett, so this novel was more involved than I thought. I still enjoyed it though and the narrator did really well.
no pretence with romance and clever AI writing....

in-depth story

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I really enjoyed this book, I look forward to many more from this author.

Enjoyable listening

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3.5 stars. Audible book.
I got this as an audible free listen recommendation at the end of a book I was listening to.
I couldn’t stop it as I was driving at the time. But I will say it caught my attention. I can only assume it was from the plus catalogue.
Very good job by the narrator at doing the voices and the singing.
Story was very enjoyable though at times it felt slow with lots of over information not needed.
Entertaining world building but the star of this was Sazo, an AI.
Very pleased the series is in KU so I can read more of these.
The cover above is not the one I had in my library, I had the German version cover.

Unintentional listen.

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