Sci-Fi RomanceDate Published: 1/6/2014
Born an outcast, raised a soldier, and chosen as a savior. Rafian VCA is humanity's only hope against a vicious new race of predators aimed at taking over the galaxy of Anstractor. In Anstractor: Vestalia, the first book by author Greg Dragon, the planet of Vestalia has been completely taken over by the Geralos. After losing their home and being forced into space, the revengeful Marines of Vestalia decide to take the fight back to the Geralos and win their planet back.
BUY LINKS
My Review:
This was a clean sci-fi read. The characters are realistic, the story line is interesting, and the setting is nicely descriptive. It took me a few chapters to get into the writing style, but once I was used to it, it flowed nicely.
I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more by this author. I hadn't read any sci-fi recently, and this book has gotten me back into it. Aliens, spaceships, and battles.... what more could you ask for? This book has it all.
From Memory
07: Violent Vani
“Let
me guess Marine, you’re probably thinking of that pretty girlfriend
of yours.”
Rafian
had to smile at the accusation.
“Is
it that obvious?” he asked, but Val didn’t return the smile like
Rafian assumed he would.
“Well,
I know you haven’t been thinking of her while fighting these
things, but check your thoughts when you do. The lizards have
consumed enough pureblood Vestalian women to where some have been
gifted with the ability to read us and put thoughts into our heads. I
had it happen to me once when I sat on my gun thinking of Chelle, and
some recon spucha bastard gave me visions of her being tortured and
killed. I wondered where the hell that level of thought came from,
and thought it was the war y’know screwing with me.”
Rafian
was intrigued and horrified at the same time.
“So
these guys have us outmanned, outgunned, and can put thoughts into
our heads now?” he asked Val, but not in a way that Val could
answer. “How exactly are we even winning on this moon with those
odds?” Rafian mused.
Val
gave a mocking laugh, injected a ration bar into his mask, and sat
back chewing for a while, as if the question was worth considering.
“Who
knows Raf, maybe they’re letting us win for some greater strategy.
But remember what I told you, in case you’re ever alone with one of
them. You should keep Vani and her memory off of the battlefield
where she’s safe.”
Rafian
nodded and thanked his friend. Val then went on to make fun of him
for having a thing for bad girls, a joke that apparently had made its
rounds to Missio-tral from all the friends who knew him.
“Vani’s
not a bad girl Val. What has she done to anyone besides being
annoying?”
Val
looked genuinely surprised.
“What!?
Do you not know why they made her a button-pushing navigator instead
of the admiral path that she was pursuing?”
Rafian
shook his head, sadly awaiting what he assumed would be disappointing
news.
“Well,
your woman punched out the Cadet Commander after they had words one
night and the woman was carted out to receive multiple zaps to her
face to keep her pretty. I’m surprised you didn’t hear about
this. Look at you, thinking that you had a gentle wildflower all this
time. It got bad man, you must’ve been on a mission or something,
but princess had to call mommy and daddy to bail her out, as the
Commander was a step away from shooting her out of an airlock for
assaulting an officer. Her parents are powerful people so she got
away with it, but you need to watch your back with Vani Narcila, that
girl has a temper on her!”
Rafian
chuckled.
“She
didn’t tell me about any of this when I got back with Aurora.”
“See…,
you and bad girls man! First with Kim the Terrible, and now with
Violent Vani. Hell if you and Vani don’t work out, you can holler
at Rueche SYN, the girl who tried to blow up the ship after she
failed out of Special Operations.”
“Ha!”
Rafian looked at Val and smiled.
“What
about Vestalia? Is she a bad girl?” he asked, still thinking of her
beautiful face grimacing from the stasis. Val got serious and made to
get to his feet as he answered.
“You’re
not her type Raf. Trust me, Vani would get her before you would.
Either way I’m gonna go take advantage of this chance to sleep
buddy. If I were you, I would do the same.”
About the Author:
Greg Dragon hails from sunny South Florida and has worked in the creative field for several years. He has written extensively on the web with articles on gaming and lifestyle improvement and continues to do so on several websites.
Website: http://anstractor.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anstractor
Hi Amanda, thank you for taking the time to read and review Anstractor along with posting about it here. "Clean" seems to be the recurring description for it and I am beginning to appreciate that. I am glad you enjoyed it.
ReplyDelete