Lights Shadow

Phil Etherington

Jan 2015 · Divining mind trilogy Book 1 · Australian Self Publishing Group

About this ebook

Taras Kovic, the richest man to have ever lived, has only one dream. Taras dreams of the future. When Ares Belle's husband goes missing after a night of drinking she returns home to find her house ransacked. Delinquent teen Riley Marclund, directionless and naïve, finds himself infatuated with a feisty girl who has an aversion to technology. The beautiful and dangerous Detective Carlisle enlists the help of Doctor Willem Stockhold to piece together a trail of gruesome murders. Lee Goku, a manipulative and cunning politician is fed up with the limitations of a democratic Council and has put plans in motion that will deliver power to his eager hands. And Famke Draskovic, a solitary enigma, discovers something truly disturbing lurking in the depths of space.

Ratings and reviews

I absolutely loved this book. There was great character development and great world building. The plot line is based around a giant spacecraft carrying the descendants of the original 600,000 humans picked for this voyage that have been travelling for one hundred and seventy years towards a new world that the humans are hoping to colonize but when they do finally arrive there are a few surprises waiting for them and things don’t exactly start off as they had always imagined. There are several different points of view in this novel covering lots of different personalities and positions on the ship and I enjoyed every single one of them. Lots of time with novels with this format (Game of Thrones I’m looking at you) there are some characters pov’s you look forward to more than others, and some you have to slog through even though you’d rather not but with Light’s Shadow I did not dread any point of view and thought each one offered something different and worthwhile to the story, although I admit it took me a while to warm up to Riley. I received a free digital copy of this in exchange for an honest review and I am really glad I did. Not because this novel is not worth paying for because it definitely is, but because if I had bought it, it would have sat on my shelf for years with me oblivious to what I brilliant read I had sitting on my shelf. But having promised to review it I had to read it within a certain time frame and as such have discovered a new favourite. Hopefully when book 2 of the trilogy comes out I will pick it up relatively quickly but delaying the sequels of favourite books to add to the anticipation is a guilty sin of mine. I would recommend this book for both space opera fans and science fiction fans in general. You’ll enjoy a well written novel (only one grammar error found) with a fascinating plotline which really pulls you in and keeps you reading. It has characters that both develop throughout the book and ones that you actually come to care about their fate. (I shed a few tears along the way). I am hoping that this will eventually become available in paperback so that I can re-read it (I take a lot longer to read kindle books and much prefer the reading experience of a physical book so always like to have the paperbacks of books that I fall in love with). I am sure I will get even more out of a second read. This book definitely deserves a larger following.