Blue Shift

by Jane O'Reilly

Series: Second Species Trilogy (1)

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2187: Earth is cold, dead and divided. The rich hide away while the rest will do anything to survive. Humanity have only one hope: crossing hostile alien territory to reach a habitable planet. It's lucky that for some, fighting their way through space is just a way of life . . . Jinnifer Blue is on the run. An expert pilot, she apprehends criminals on behalf of the government and keeps her illegal genetic modifications a closely guarded secret. But when a particularly dangerous job goes south, Jinn is left stranded on a prison ship with one of the most ruthless criminals in the galaxy. Now she must decide if she can trust her co-prisoner - because once they discover what the prison ship is hiding, she definitely can't trust anyone else . . . A gripping space adventure for fans of Elizabeth Moon and Rachel Bach… (more)

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In the future the Earth is dying and society is divided into the elite who are genetically engineered to perfection and the Underworlders who are not and are left to scramble for survival.

Having left that behind to go out into space Jinnifer "Jinn" Blue is double crossed by her colleague and left behind on the prison station where she encounters Dax. Jinnifer and Dax have history together. Now they have to figure out how to escape with the help of each other.

I bought this as a paper copy Even though this has been on my radar there has been zero promotion actovity for it online.

Its a bit of a gamble but just couldnt resist it when I saw it there on the self.

One of the antagonists ,the colleauge of Jinnifer is depicted as an one-dimensional scumbag with no deeper exploration of his character.
This has turned out to be very hard to get into. Its just very confusing.

The blurb mentions that I would like this book if I liked the Rachel Bach books but since I havent read those its a moot point.It certainly seems as the Publisher is trying to target the same crowd as the covers are very similar.

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All I can tell you is that this book did nothing for me. (

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Litrvixen | Jun 23, 2022 |

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2187: Earth is cold, dead and divided. The rich hide away while the rest will do anything to survive. Humanity have only one hope: crossing hostile alien territory to reach a habitable planet. It's lucky that for some, fighting their way through space is just a way of life . . . Jinnifer Blue is on the run. An expert pilot, she apprehends criminals on behalf of the government and keeps her illegal genetic modifications a closely guarded secret. But when a particularly dangerous job goes south, Jinn is left stranded on a prison ship with one of the most ruthless criminals in the galaxy. Now she must decide if she can trust her co-prisoner - because once they discover what the prison ship is hiding, she definitely can't trust anyone else . . . A gripping space adventure for fans of Elizabeth Moon and Rachel Bach

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2187: Earth is cold, dead and divided.

The rich hide away while the rest will do anything to survive. Humanity have only one hope: crossing hostile alien territory to reach a habitable planet. It's lucky that for some, fighting their way through space is just a way of life . . .

Jinnifer Blue is on the run. An expert pilot, she apprehends criminals on behalf of the government and keeps her illegal genetic modifications a closely guarded secret. But when a particularly dangerous job goes south, Jinn is left stranded on a prison ship with one of the most ruthless criminals in the galaxy.

Now she must decide if she can trust her co-prisoner - because once they discover what the prison ship is hiding, she definitely can't trust anyone else . . .

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