BOOK INFORMATION:
Tara Dean had a gift. She used it to escape. The vile memory of the behavioral modification hospital was only fifteen kilometers behind her as the EMP projectile detonated and her stolen 2079 Mustang flipped off the hovroad floating 199 kph. Halfway through the first mid-air rotation, charges exploded along crumple junctions in the silver hovcar’s roof and the polyaluminum cabin blew free. Ejected into the sky, away from the disintegrating Ford, Tara Dean's unconscious body was enveloped in an emergency collision sphere. Clear of the wreckage, her shrouded form bounced into a ditch and was immediately surrounded by the pack of waiting Coyotes. The animals began to savage the sphere's elastiframe fabric with their dulled teeth. They had come for a reason. These were the Coyotes of cyborg legend, the vanished products of Darkpool Laboratories, drawn at long last from the darkness by the unique scent of her blood. Welcome to the Dawn of the Courtezan.
William Angevine was a quiet man, some would say a hard man. He was a hunter, born for this life. As the THOR class incursion cyborg stepped from the shadows cast by the vodka still's fractionating columns, the air in the warehouse chilled. He saw the massive creature's blue vidorbs first, then it moved further into the light. The cranial fuselage was aerodynamic, smooth, based on the skull structure of a dire wolf. The skull and chassis itself were made of reinforced, unpolished titanalum the color of slate. The beast was designed to inspire terror on a battlefield. Yet William Angevine felt no terror. A human tether, he alone could hear the cyborg's thoughts. They called to him, like Voices in the Stream.
October 16, 2082. On this day in history, The War of the Dolphin began. Joan, a Maui Hector's dolphin, floated to the surface of the aquarium and placed her head between the electroencephalogram terminals, aligning her consciousness with a quantum supercomputer as she pushed terabytes of dark code across the holostream, searching for the Israeli. The fusion core brightened momentarily from the power draw as contact was made. “It begins today,” the dolphin said. The Israeli's voice responded slowly, deep and resonant, its inhuman timbre filling the aquarium chamber, “Are you afraid to die, dolphin?” “No,” replied Joan flatly. “There is no death. You of all should know this. In the end, there is only Absorption.”
MY THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK
Lately, I have been literally obsessed with science fiction, so when I got the opportunity to check out this book set I was very exciting. I have been reading a ton of classic sci-fi, my favorite right now is Arthur C. Clarke. While this was not nearly that good it was still rather great.
When looking for a sci-fi novel, I was looking for something about a dystopian world and this was just the series I needed. I loved the concept of The North American Union.I also loved the description, "That 93% of citizens live with a nanocomputer consensually embedded in their skull. Alcohol is banned, cannabis is mainstream. Holograms fill our eyes, drones float above the city hovstreets and the Office of the Architect watches everything and everyone.". While this isn't a new concept by any means it was done in a rather unique way in this novel.
The writing was rather excellent in this series. I enjoyed the writing because it seemed like something I could relate to. I was charming and almost endearing to read. I loved almost all the characters in this book. I loved the world that was shaped in the pages of this book. While the books were at times rather predictable the story also kept you on your toes.
My main issue and the reason this series doesn't get a five star from me is that it jumps around so much. I left the beginning of the first book was rather long, took a while to get interesting and then kept flipping around in a way that was confusing to follow at times.
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