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Redsight by Meredith Mooring
Feb. 18th, 2024 10:22 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Korinna has simple priorities: stay on the Navitas, stay out of trouble, and stay alive. She may be a Redseer, a blind priestess with the power to manipulate space-time, but she is the weakest in her order. Useless and outcast. Or so she has been raised to believe.
As she takes her place as a navigator on an Imperium shop, Korinna’s full destiny is revealed to her: blood brimming with magic, she is meant to become a weapon of the Imperium, and pawn for the Order that raised her. But when the shop is attacked by the notorious pirate Aster Haran, Korinna’s world is ripped apart.
Aster has a vendetta against the Imperium, and an all-consuming, dark power that drives her to destroy everything in her path. She understands the world in a way Korinna has never imagined, and Korinna is drawn to her against her better judgment.
With the Imperium and the justice-seeking warrior Sahar hot on her heels, Korinna must choose her side, seize her power and fulfil her destiny - or risk imperilling the future of the galaxy, and destroying the fabric of space-time itself.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Meredith Mooring’s debut SF space opera romance has some interesting ideas, e.g. the use of a visually impaired protagonist, the idea of atomic manipulation and space ships built from asteroids, but the plotting is all over the place with some developments sign posted too early and a credibility defying plot twist in the final quarter, the central romance being under developed and ultimately a sense that nothing that happens to Korinna is earned.
REDSIGHT will be released in the United States on 27th February 2024 and in the United Kingdom on 29th February 2024. Thanks to Rebellion Publishing for the review copy of this book.
Korinna has simple priorities: stay on the Navitas, stay out of trouble, and stay alive. She may be a Redseer, a blind priestess with the power to manipulate space-time, but she is the weakest in her order. Useless and outcast. Or so she has been raised to believe.
As she takes her place as a navigator on an Imperium shop, Korinna’s full destiny is revealed to her: blood brimming with magic, she is meant to become a weapon of the Imperium, and pawn for the Order that raised her. But when the shop is attacked by the notorious pirate Aster Haran, Korinna’s world is ripped apart.
Aster has a vendetta against the Imperium, and an all-consuming, dark power that drives her to destroy everything in her path. She understands the world in a way Korinna has never imagined, and Korinna is drawn to her against her better judgment.
With the Imperium and the justice-seeking warrior Sahar hot on her heels, Korinna must choose her side, seize her power and fulfil her destiny - or risk imperilling the future of the galaxy, and destroying the fabric of space-time itself.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Meredith Mooring’s debut SF space opera romance has some interesting ideas, e.g. the use of a visually impaired protagonist, the idea of atomic manipulation and space ships built from asteroids, but the plotting is all over the place with some developments sign posted too early and a credibility defying plot twist in the final quarter, the central romance being under developed and ultimately a sense that nothing that happens to Korinna is earned.
REDSIGHT will be released in the United States on 27th February 2024 and in the United Kingdom on 29th February 2024. Thanks to Rebellion Publishing for the review copy of this book.
