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Shade barely escapes with his life; leaving the beach in a craft that is barely held together. He doesn’t care though, he’s just happy that after millennia he’s finally managed to put an end to Tyler.
Lieutenant Thomas is woken up from a cryogenic sleep by Morgan, the Spero’s Artificial Intelligence. He’s alerted to the events on the beach, and that Tyler is in serious trouble. He’s lonely, having had no human interaction since the cataclysm when only one out of four habitation modules landed safely on the planet some nine hundred years before.
Commander Tyler Ryan Tor is barely alive after his battle with Shade, but he finds himself being beset by a mysterious woman named Crylona. Her colony, her cities are being besieged by creatures of the deep, and is no longer able to keep them at bay. She explains that the colony is one of the habitation modules, previously thought to have crashed with no survivors in the deep ocean.
With everything they thought they knew being turned upside down; the revelation that the habitation pod and it’s passengers thought to have drowned, is actually a colony called Pelagos, has only made the threat from Shade even more palpable. Tyler and his ragtag group of friends have to save the colonies reactor before it’s power source is depleted and the ocean and it’s creatures crush them. There are ramifications for the reactor aboard the Spero, with Thomas the only human on board, and his possibly declining mental health, will he be able to ensure that the Spaceship he’s on doesn’t crash to the planet in a fiery ball.
While I quite enjoyed The Band of Starlit Waters, I found that I struggled somewhat with Bussie’s writing style. There were repeated names, and phrases close together, making the manuscript feel clunky. The story was intriguing, and held my attention – however the writing style was too simplistic.
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This book was reviewed as part of the Reedsy Discovery reviewer program. You can read the original review here.
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