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DarkShip Thieves stars Athena Hera Sinistra, the rich and unruly daughter of one of the leading Good Men on Earth. Athena never wanted to go to space. All she ever wanted to do was be free and ride around with her broomer gang. Unfortunately, her father had other plans and forced her to go on diplomatic missions with him. One night Athena wakes up in her cabin and realizes that someone is in her room. From there she escapes capture and flees in a lifeboat, ending up in the dangerous and mysterious Power Trees. She is “rescued” by a mythical DarkShip thief and there begins her journey of finding adventure and love.

The idea of this story is very intriguing. In Earth’s future, humans developed bio-engineering that created engineered people, Mules, who were far superior to the average human. They ruled Earth under an iron grip until a rebellion overthrew them and they fled into space. This happened so long ago that the only real proof of these people’s existence are recorded memories and myths. Of course, Athena stumbles upon an ancestor of these escaped people and is taken to their world. From there she learns the truth of the Mules and the real story behind her family and Earth’s history.

Unfortunately, the writing in this book did not live up to the idea. Athena is a bad-ass fighter who is faster than anyone alive. She’s never experienced fear and people cower from her wherever she goes. She’s escaped from or destroyed all institutes and schools that she has ever been forced into. She is rebellious and has a terrible temper. Beyond that there isn’t much to her. There’s not much reason given for her personality or for her history of violence. She is grating and rather obnoxious in her arrogance. She doesn’t grow as a character at all throughout the book. Once she meets the love interest, she does a nearly 180 and begins to calm down, want to settle down, and gets all lovey-dovey. This wasn’t really worked up to, though, and doesn’t feel like a realistic growth of character. Athena is very flat and one-dimensional.

The world building left a bit to be desired, I was most interested in the Mules and Earth’s history but we don’t learn much about that until the very end. The ending, without giving away the twists, was rushed and didn’t make all that much sense. I felt that the plot twists and big reveals could have worked if they’d been more gradual and explained a bit more.

There were good aspects to DarkShip Thieves. While I didn’t like Athena, I did enjoy Kit, the love interest. He felt like a real, fleshed out character. He had his shortcomings but they worked and they built up to a believable personality. Some of the side characters were interesting as well. The world that Athena is taken to after escaping her father’s ship is the best part of the book. After the Mules and their bio-engineered servants escaped Earth, they settled on an asteroid and, obviously, grew to develop a society that’s quite different from Earth. I loved the descriptions of the asteroid and how they lived there, what technology had become for their society, and how their beliefs differed from those back on Earth.

Overall, this book wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t that great. It was fun and action-packed. Unfortunately, it lacked the depth of story and character development that I was hoping for.

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DarkShip Thieves Sarah A Hoyt 9781439133170 Books Reviews

I've never been pulled into a book as fast as this one. When I first picked it up I intended to read just the first chapter to get a feel for what it was about. By the 3rd paragraph it had me hooked. 250 pages later, bleary eyed, at 2 AM, I was finally able to put it down long enough to get a couple hours of sleep, and then promptly finished it when I woke up.

So why only 4 stars? Well, being a page turner isn't everything.

In the book, the author explores possible political organizing principles for human societies such as anarchy and totalitarianism. Unfortunately, even though a lot of pages were dedicated to these themes, I don't feel that the author painted plausible pictures of these possibilities. I don't mind suspending disbelief when reading this sort of book, but the magnitude of suspension coupled with the sheer number of pages dedicated to these topics makes it only a 4-star read as far as I'm concerned.
Reading the other reviews, I got the impression this book was "a poor little rich girl finds hunky boy from the other side". I like that story line well enough, but it is rather superficial. A brainless light read. Athena was rich, but though she identifies herself as a "Daddy's girl", she is anything but. Her father tolerates her, but clearly does not love or cherish her. She has had the best that money can buy, but after losing her mother early, she has had an emotionally isolated life and has coped by specializing in stirring things up, giving her rather unusual talents. She does indeed meet hunky boy from the other side, complete with his own issues and their stories meld together in unexpected ways. It was excellent space opera.
Larry Corriea says (from memory) "you know those parts where the reader's eyes glaze over and they skip to the good parts? Don't write those"

There's a continuum between "world building" and "eyes glazing". Hoyt does not always get that mix right, but generally does a good job.

There's lots of detail in the beginning, and then the ending seems a bit rushed. I've read more than a few novels that have this characteristic.

Over all, though, I'd say this one is definitely worth reading.
I didn't love anything about this book, but it was a fun and quick read. I thought it could have used some serious editing - at times it felt a bit repetitive. I also felt like it would have been better if it had been divided into two books - the last third of the book had a different storyline (although it did tie in to earlier incidents) and I was left with a lot of questions at the end. The other thing that kept me from loving the book was Athena. I didn't find her particularly likable, and so it was tough for me to get too interested in what happened to her. I did think a lot of the secondary characters were really interesting (Kath, Kit's parents, Nat, etc.), so I would have enjoyed the book more if there had been more of them.
Overall I enjoyed this book enough that I would recommend it to sci-fi fans who want an interesting but easy read.
DarkShip Thieves stars Athena Hera Sinistra, the rich and unruly daughter of one of the leading Good Men on Earth. Athena never wanted to go to space. All she ever wanted to do was be free and ride around with her broomer gang. Unfortunately, her father had other plans and forced her to go on diplomatic missions with him. One night Athena wakes up in her cabin and realizes that someone is in her room. From there she escapes capture and flees in a lifeboat, ending up in the dangerous and mysterious Power Trees. She is “rescued” by a mythical DarkShip thief and there begins her journey of finding adventure and love.

The idea of this story is very intriguing. In Earth’s future, humans developed bio-engineering that created engineered people, Mules, who were far superior to the average human. They ruled Earth under an iron grip until a rebellion overthrew them and they fled into space. This happened so long ago that the only real proof of these people’s existence are recorded memories and myths. Of course, Athena stumbles upon an ancestor of these escaped people and is taken to their world. From there she learns the truth of the Mules and the real story behind her family and Earth’s history.

Unfortunately, the writing in this book did not live up to the idea. Athena is a bad-ass fighter who is faster than anyone alive. She’s never experienced fear and people cower from her wherever she goes. She’s escaped from or destroyed all institutes and schools that she has ever been forced into. She is rebellious and has a terrible temper. Beyond that there isn’t much to her. There’s not much reason given for her personality or for her history of violence. She is grating and rather obnoxious in her arrogance. She doesn’t grow as a character at all throughout the book. Once she meets the love interest, she does a nearly 180 and begins to calm down, want to settle down, and gets all lovey-dovey. This wasn’t really worked up to, though, and doesn’t feel like a realistic growth of character. Athena is very flat and one-dimensional.

The world building left a bit to be desired, I was most interested in the Mules and Earth’s history but we don’t learn much about that until the very end. The ending, without giving away the twists, was rushed and didn’t make all that much sense. I felt that the plot twists and big reveals could have worked if they’d been more gradual and explained a bit more.

There were good aspects to DarkShip Thieves. While I didn’t like Athena, I did enjoy Kit, the love interest. He felt like a real, fleshed out character. He had his shortcomings but they worked and they built up to a believable personality. Some of the side characters were interesting as well. The world that Athena is taken to after escaping her father’s ship is the best part of the book. After the Mules and their bio-engineered servants escaped Earth, they settled on an asteroid and, obviously, grew to develop a society that’s quite different from Earth. I loved the descriptions of the asteroid and how they lived there, what technology had become for their society, and how their beliefs differed from those back on Earth.

Overall, this book wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t that great. It was fun and action-packed. Unfortunately, it lacked the depth of story and character development that I was hoping for.

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