Oblivion's Cloak

Dylan McFadyen

Dec 2022 · Oblivion's Galaxy Book 1 · Dylan McFadyen

About this ebook

First Lieutenant Shaara was dead this morning.

Her captain is furious at her. She wasted company resources getting herself killed, and it’s coming out of her paycheck. Now, she’s sitting across from the first other human being she’s seen in six years. His name is Adnan. He claims to come from Earth—but that’s impossible. Earth died a long time ago. If Adnan’s telling the truth, he and the decaying ship the captain pulled him off are nearly a thousand years old.

Wherever he’s from, he’s Shaara’s responsibility now. Which is the last thing she needs. But it’s either that, or the captain sells Adnan into slavery. Shaara knows what that would mean. Most humans do. And something inside her won’t let her abandon Adnan to it: revenant memories, stabbed awake by the look in his eyes.

Facing those memories won’t be easy. It’d be far easier to ignore the feeling driving her forward. Far easier to let it all go to hell, and drift back to sleep.

Until a shadowy new faction starts stoking the fires of war. They’re looking for Adnan; Earth’s last survivor holds the key to unleash a terrible, indiscriminate vengeance on the galaxy that wronged them. Who they are is a mystery—to everyone but Shaara. Hard as she’s tried to forget, she knows them all too well. Which means she’s the only one who can stop them.

The question is: does she want to? Maybe the galaxy’s earned a little vengeance.

Ratings and reviews

From salvage to mercenary battle to underground revolution to galaxy wide threat - this was a very ambitious book that threw together several huge concepts and used them all masterfully to tell a surprisingly intimate, and cohesive story. Sharra is an interesting character. Pulled and shaped by so many forces. Respected by her crew, pariah to her race. It is a complex story that builds through parts and takes a bit to take shape, but totally worth the wild ride.

Set in the future, Adnan is a human found on a floating in space ship from the past that Shaara a fellow human's captain finds. She does what she must to saave Adnan and drags him into the life of a mercenary. This seems to start a crazy story that kept me reading to the end to figure out what was going. Odd things happen and Shaara is sucked into a wild story where these two unlikely normal humans seem to be in the middle of it all as poor Shaara stumbles into a crazy plot and must make choices

This was an awesome and amazing book, it was hard to put down. It drew you in and didn,t let go till it was finished. loved every page.

About the author

Dylan has been writing science fiction stories since he was old enough to write. He’s been writing original science fiction stories—discounting admittedly awesome fully illustrated Star Trek and Star Wars fan fiction—since he was twelve.

He also has a Lord of the Rings tattoo, which in a way tells you everything else you need to know.