“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about. However, as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.
Today’s selection and book I’m excitedly awaiting is:
Ocean’s Echo
by Everina Maxwell
Adult Fiction – Science Fiction – Romance – LGBTQIA+
November 1st, 2022
Goodreads
Ocean’s Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell’s hit debut, Winter’s Orbit.
Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all neuromodified “readers,” is a security threat on his own. But when controlled, readers are a rare asset. Not only can they read minds, but they can navigate chaotic space, the maelstroms surrounding the gateway to the wider universe.
Conscripted into the military under dubious circumstances, Tennal is placed into the care of Lieutenant Surit Yeni, a duty-bound soldier, principled leader, and the son of a notorious traitor general. Whereas Tennal can read minds, Surit can influence them. Like all other neuromodified “architects,” he can impose his will onto others, and he’s under orders to control Tennal by merging their minds.
Surit accepted a suspicious promotion-track request out of desperation, but he refuses to go through with his illegal orders to sync and control an unconsenting Tennal. So they lie: They fake a sync bond and plan Tennal’s escape.
Their best chance arrives with a salvage-retrieval mission into chaotic space—to the very neuromodifcation lab that Surit’s traitor mother destroyed twenty years ago. And among the rubble is a treasure both terrible and unimaginably powerful, one that upends a decades-old power struggle, and begins a war.
I loved Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit so of course I am excited to read her next standalone sci-fi romance which takes place in the same universe as Winter’s Orbit. But also, this has fake dating, except it’s fake soulbonding, and that alone has me convinced.
Tell Me:
Will you be reading this book?
I’ve seen this on the blogosphere around and I absolutely love the sound of it!!
It sounds amazing indeed, my expectations are high 🙂
This sounds really cool!
It does indeed!
I hope you love this one. It has a cool cover.
This author definitely has had luck in the cover department so far 🙂
This sounds like a really fun read. I’ll definitely check it out. 🙂
Hope you’ll love it!
I haven’t read anything by this author but this sounds fantastic. I want to read Winter’s Orbit too.
I loved Winter’s Orbit! Hope you’ll love it too if you decide to try it!
This sounds awesome.
It does, I can’t wait to read it 🙂