Rhett C. Bruno

After thirty years as a Collector, chasing wanted offworlders and extinguishing protests throughout the solar system, Malcolm Graves doesn't bother asking questions. So long as the pay is right, he's the man for the job. But his latest assignment doesn't afford him that luxury. Perfect for fans of The Expanse.

Children of Titan

Titanborn

Sade A

It's years into the future, Earth has survived an apocalypse but civilisation and society as we know it is dead. We've evolved and conquered space.
It was definitely fascinating to read a world where humans have evolved beyond Earth.

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This book for all it's talk, devolves into a trite plot and contrived shocker - because honestly who did not see that coming?- I think in all honesty, book 1 could have benefitted from having the titanborns as active characters in the book- yes i know from the blurb of book 2 it possibly handles this but why couldn't we have had both views and made up our minds?- as it is, i feel the plot all but delibritely works to shove sympathy for the titans and Malcom Graves down your throats. Aww poor dude he's in an impossible situation what could he have done?? (view spoiler)[Also his daughter was first class dick wad for dragging him into that situation and acting like she didn't know what was going to happen. I wanted to get into this book and smack the shit out of her. (hide spoiler)]

At some point in this book, it felt like Graves character starts going through some frankly fast changes. All of a sudden he's this 'oh so sympathetic, my lawd people are really suffering, i've been blind all my life' person. Dude you've been a collector for freaking years, you have seen the most terrible shit and all of a sudden in the space of what days? you just begin to thaw like that? Miss me with that.

Also can i just say that this book did (view spoiler)[Zhaff dirty. Cos i don't believe there was absolutely any way Graves would have been fast enough to make that kill shot so easily. I mean this is freaking Zhaff we're talking about.... (hide spoiler)] Ugh!!!!!

 Anyways, not a bad book really, i did enjoy it especially when Zhaff came into the scene + it wasn't so sciency that you wouldn't be able to grab what ws been said.
This book was almost amazing.

Jolie

Before I start my review, I want to thank Rhett C. Bruno for allowing me to review Titanborn.

**All opinions stated in this review are mine and mine alone. I received Titanborn from Rhett C. Bruno for free for my honest and unbiased review.**

Now onto my review:

Form read in: Kindle

Author: Rhett C. Bruno

Publisher: Hydra

Date of publication: June 21 2016

Genre: Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

How many pages: 246 pages

My review:

Science fiction is one of my favorite type of books to read (along with romance, fantasy and paranormal). I absolutely love reading about space exploration, different colonies and the different races/species. I can thank my grandfather (who passed June 2015) for influencing me in my love of sci-fi. He loved Star Trek and would watch the series (up until Star Trek: Voyager) and the movies all the time. He would encourage myself and my 2 brothers to come and watch with him. He was always finding sci-fi books, reading them first (of course…lol) and then giving them to me to read. So, it would be safe to say that my Papa would have loved this book.

This book is great from the opening scene (where we meet the Ringers) to the very surprising (and when I say surprising, it was very surprising to me). The back story is great too. Earth was decimated by an extinction level meteor and lost about 99.9% of its population. Before the meteor his, people were shipped off world to one of the moons of Saturn and then Earth lost contact with them.By the time the people of Earth got in contact with them again, 2-3 centuries had gone by and those colonists had adapted to the climate of Titan. Now Earth has an interest in harvesting Saturn’s rings and they are terraforming/populating Titan. Which is pissing off the locals.

I liked the characters too. They were very flawed. Malcolm Graves is a workaholic/alcoholic who drove away his only daughter with his work. Zhaff, his partner, was part of a top-secret research facility experiment called “The Cognet. He is more like a human computer (has no emotions) but there is an explanation later on in the book that made you go “Ahhhhh, now I understand”.

3 things I liked about Titanborn:

1) Malcolm Graves

2) Zhaff

3) The story

3 things I disliked about Titanborn

1) Aria

2) The Ringers storyline

3) Lucien Pervenio
How many stars will I give Titanborn? 3.5

Why? While I thought it was a very gritty science fiction book, I felt that the way the book ended was weird. I couldn’t tell if the author was setting up for a new book or what. I also wish that the author got more into the storyline of the The Children of Titan. They really interested me to the point where I was frustrated when the book ended.

Will I recommend to family and friends? Yes

Will I reread? Yes

Age range: Adult

Why? Extreme violence and the ending (read the book!!)

Titanborn Children of Titan

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