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Ocean's Echo

Written by: Everina Maxwell
Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
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Publisher's Summary

"Listeners will relish the interstellar politicking and Corkhill's talent for voicing unforgettable personalities."- AudioFile

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.

Tennal and Surit can no longer abandon their unit or their world. The only way to avoid life under full military control is to complete the very sync they've been faking.

Can two unwilling weapons of war bring about peace?

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

©2022 Everina Maxwell (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

What the critics say

"This earns a space on shelves alongside the very best of the genre." —Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review

"Writing fantastically memorable characters, Maxwell masterfully draws out a rich and complicated story which explores military incursions, familial ties, and the impact of secrets revealed." —Booklist, Starred Review

“Compassionate, queer, slightly horrifying, and wildly inventive—Ocean’s Echo whisked me into a faraway world of spacefaring outcasts and rogues, teased me with the promise of not-quite-human romance, and vaulted me into a transcendent meditation on identity, truth, and meaning of existence itself. What a glorious read!” —Ryka Aoki, author of Light from Uncommon Stars

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Soul Bound + Space Politics

Spaceopera sci-fi - with a lovely spin on being soul bound. The romance is very slow pine - and is quite low key as the rest of the action needs to be sorted by Tennal and Surit before their feelings can be fully addressed.

The Novel started off feeling predictable but the twists and ending less so. While all the loose ends were sorted out very satisfactorily I feel there is room for a sequel. (ok, I hope for a sequel)

This is in the same universe as Winter's Orbit, but this is a stand alone book.

Narration was by the same narrator as Winter's Orbit, and he gave the main characters the same voices as the last time - so the outgoing gregrarious character in this novel Tennal, had the same voice as Kiem, and the more reserved character Surit has the same voice, accent and inflections as Count Jainan. Initally they were so identical it was almost off putting.

I am looking forward to the next novel this author brings out.

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Gentle science fiction with a relationship

This is my second Maxwell read but first audio listen of their work. The performance was lovely and focused, making parts that could be tedious more meaningful. I know everyone is reacting to the fact that this isn’t ‘romance’ enough, and I’d say it’s a new, modern approach to romance, one that puts its energies on building trust, on getting to know the significant other, and on personal/mutual growth, rather than attraction and sexual tension/flirting which we’ve all been conditioned to expect from decades of stories made with the purpose of demonstrating power through love or the necessity to form a couple just cuz. Maxwell writes with an extreme respect for human life, dignity and rights, which helps me realize some of my internalized aspects (I’d get hungry for ‘more violence’, ‘more sex’ ‘more dramatic’) and it helps me see that we don’t need to diminish humanity in stories to drive points through.
As a science fiction it was fun- I just wish the physicist world building was less abstract, and I felt like I couldn’t ‘feel’ how characters acted within it- often we’d get ‘and they did X’ rather than descriptions of how X could happen. Anyway, it wasn’t my favourite but I was happy for it and would read more from the author.

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