Earthrise Her Instruments Book 1 eBook MCA Hogarth
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"The thrills are nonstop, the alien cultures and races are well developed and fascinating, and there’s just the right amount of humor to keep the whole thing fizzing." — Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Reese Eddings has enough to do keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did promise to repay the loan. But she didn't think it would involve tangling with pirates over a space elf prince...
Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed Firefly or Andromeda will like this series.
Rating PG-13 for violence
Tags found family, woman protagonist, minority/POC protagonist, adventure, space opera, romance, furries, space elves
Earthrise Her Instruments Book 1 eBook MCA Hogarth
I liked the overall premise and the various characters. I really enjoy the concept of animals developed into thinking, loving, sharing beings and these were good ones. I did feel the Captain, Reese, was way too angry--at everything. I kept waiting to find out what had happened in her background to make her that way--it didn't come. The conflict with her family just didn't fit to cause so much anger. The Eldritch, however had lots of clues to his actions and reactions. I will read more but hope Reese grows up and recognizes what a wonderful crew she has. As others have said, I found it hard to accept their devotion to her, since she's so ugly to everyone. As far as action goes, it started well and was plausible. And it ended fairly well. The time spent on the home world of the cats was drawn out and seemed to have little to do with the overall plot. And the fact that the Eldritch left the hospital high and dry didn't please me. I gave the 3 because of the supporting characters, especially the male cat. He was worth giving loyalty to. Without him, it would have been 2 at the most. The Phoenix was very interesting, with a background I'm looking forward to learning more about. Hope to see the other two more developed in future novels of this series. The book did have typos and erratic punctuation. I tend to read past those things but they signal a lack of polish to me. And there is no reason for such sloppiness in a published work of any sort.Product details
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Earthrise Her Instruments Book 1 eBook MCA Hogarth Reviews
This is my second book by M.C.A. Hogarth, and it's nice to know that I would have found her from Goodreads' Interspecies Diplomacy & Friendship list even if I hadn't already read "Thief of Songs". While this Pelted universe (populated with various races, including humanoids engineered with the addition of various animal species' DNA) space opera adventure — which features a struggling merchant crew evading and/or fighting slavers and pirates — has a very different plot and tone than the personal-scale small dramas of ToS, some things are the same.
Hogarth gives readers excellent writing, rich and intriguing world-building, and a variety of well-developed characters with strengths, fears, pleasures, griefs, and flaws. She also stretches our ideas about relationships. The hedonistic Harat-Shar (did I spell that right?) tigraine twins, for example, raised on their race's homeworld, take for granted family dynamics that their human captain prefers not to even think about!
As for Reese, her family has for generations consisted solely of a line of women dedicated to the life on a Martian-dome farm. She rejected all their expectations, and has become a prickly and hyper-private person, reluctant to admit that being captain equals taking responsibility for, and making choices for, her crew. It's amusing to see her adjustment to the nature of a real Eldritch, versus the fanciful, delicate depictions in many of the romance novels she likes to read, but his strong esper ability (to sense thoughts and emotions) bothers her profoundly. There's a quote (which I'll paraphrase, at least for now) after Hirianthial strains his physiological limits to the point of delirium, losing he capacity for his usual courteous self-restraint, where Reese bitterly muses that it's unfair he should know so much of her secrets, while keeping almost all of his. It's not til the end that her crew's bluntness makes her face the irrationality of her hostility (I wanted to shake her during the climactic section on the planet!), and she admits she actually wants him to stay.
Hirianthial does indeed keep some of his secrets even from the reader. We are allowed to know that he is no longer young, even with the Eldritch race's centuries-long lives, and that he lost a wife in childbirth, and feels guilt over that and over some sort of vengeful/warrior activities back as a lord in Jiriensire. He became a doctor in atonement, but also fulfills whatever tasks his queen chooses to set him, since his own life hasn't meant that much or had real purpose in years.
Sascha (brother) and Irine (sister) are the other crew we see the most of, because their extroverted nature does not fade to the background. When the Earthrise crew visits their home while repairs are being made, we see how difficult it can be when even someone so close they're like a part of you doesn't necessarily want the same things.
The birdlike engineer (Gaaah, I have to come back to this when it's easier to flip back and forth I can't remember either his race or personal name! Hyer? Byer?) OTOH, is nearly as reserved as Hirianthial, and has hidden depths beneath his philosophical religion. Those claws can be dangerous! I hope we learn more about him.
The female centauroid (I'm really failing at recollection, here, aren't I?!) is so far mainly just a stable, supportive friend. Again, I look forward to more.
I'm going to go get the next book now!
Oh, as for proofreading, I did catch a few goofs, but not all that many. This story is good enough that it'd be worth it to pass them on. (I do wish that were easier to do, but the app is not built for file-sharing!)
I struggled to finish this one, dangerous, adventurous plot that was interesting enough but it lacked happy emotions. Everything was just so negative, as soon as I thought that the captain and her crew would finally have something positive happen it would go downhill. They just couldn't seem to catch a break, they seemed to have a lot of space knowledge so their endless run-ins and carelessness got tedious and made the story drag. I didn't like Reese, she was too stand-offish with her crew, it ended on an exciting note but their endless struggles outweighed the ending.
I’m torn how to feel about this book. It’s easily readable, has an interesting universe and I very much enjoyed all the side characters (including Unpronounceably Named Male Lead). But I never came to like Reese. Not even a little bit. I understood that she wasn’t really meant to be a b*tch, but she was. She was so prickly that she pushed everyone away, even me, the reader. I kept hoping that she’d come around and settle down to likable. After all, there are generally expected arcs that such books usually follow. I sense that this series will too, but it didn’t happen in this book.
I kept thinking and being bothered by the idea that if she was a male captain, no author would have written her to be so coddled by her crew. They’re constantly sending her away when things get intense. The stress of leadership is literally eating a hole in her stomach.
There was also some uncomfortable language. Hogarth uses food to describe skin tones (admittedly for both black and white characters), which is understably a no-no, and Unpronounceably Named Male Lead thinks of Reese as looking exotic, several times. Which might not be so bad if he wasn’t a white man, her a black woman and they weren’t standing next to cat-people, dog-like people and a talking Phoenix. Kind of sure, being a black woman doesn’t make her the exotic one in those circumstances.
Lastly, the plotting is very linear. Reese is hired to rescue someone. She and her crew go right there and get them. Then she immediately has a medical emergency that they are miraculously on hand to fix and then they just go off on their next adventure. There are no red herrings or diverting paths to liven things up a bit.
Having said that, I appreciate there being a person of color as a lead character, even on the cover, and I was entertained throughout the book. I’d be happy to read another one.
I liked the overall premise and the various characters. I really enjoy the concept of animals developed into thinking, loving, sharing beings and these were good ones. I did feel the Captain, Reese, was way too angry--at everything. I kept waiting to find out what had happened in her background to make her that way--it didn't come. The conflict with her family just didn't fit to cause so much anger. The Eldritch, however had lots of clues to his actions and reactions. I will read more but hope Reese grows up and recognizes what a wonderful crew she has. As others have said, I found it hard to accept their devotion to her, since she's so ugly to everyone. As far as action goes, it started well and was plausible. And it ended fairly well. The time spent on the home world of the cats was drawn out and seemed to have little to do with the overall plot. And the fact that the Eldritch left the hospital high and dry didn't please me. I gave the 3 because of the supporting characters, especially the male cat. He was worth giving loyalty to. Without him, it would have been 2 at the most. The Phoenix was very interesting, with a background I'm looking forward to learning more about. Hope to see the other two more developed in future novels of this series. The book did have typos and erratic punctuation. I tend to read past those things but they signal a lack of polish to me. And there is no reason for such sloppiness in a published work of any sort.
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