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Fringe Runner

Fringe Series, Book 1

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Fringe Runner

Written by: Rachel Aukes
Narrated by: James Foster
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The first novel in a new space adventure series!

Aramis Reyne is an old space captain, hounded by arthritis and haunted by memories of war. He makes ends meet by running mail and supplies to the farthest, darkest reaches of the system known as the fringe. When Reyne and his ragtag crew salvage a dead ship during one of their runs, they find themselves thrown into a galactic conspiracy involving warship captains, secret organizations, fringe rebels, and pirates. With interplanetary war on the horizon, Reyne must confront wartime ghosts and dust off old skills or else he'll be forced to watch thousands of innocents be slaughtered, again.

Where the series takes place: After the colonization of Mars and Europa, it took us fewer than five generations to reach beyond our solar system and discover new planets capable of supporting human life. Too far away to be governed under Earth law, the Collective was formed. Several hundred years later, the Collective has expanded to a thriving system of six inhabited worlds. Power struggles and interplanetary rivalries are common, and tensions are growing between the elite and working classes.

©2016 Rachel Aukes (P)2016 James Foster Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Solar System Haunted War Mars Interstellar Pirate
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The book and its story, characters, events etc have really nothing to them. There is a backstory, but it feels as if -apart from the main character- none of it really matters. Delivery of any information is way too telling, awkward, and flat at every turn. Dialogue is... meh at best.
The world and everything happening seems to stop existing outside of a POV character's view point. Characters seemed to develop.. not at all. They all stay more or less the same, and as such, I felt 0 attachment to any of them and the things they were trying to accomplish.

The narrator was flat, had jumbled accents, gave no sense of tension or urgency during scenes that really should have been tense, and felt way too laid back with everything.

On a whole, Fringe Runner has potential and promise, but it needs to have more time put into it. More edits, and revamps, as well as simply adding more overarching stories would add so so much to this world that has been built.

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