Crucible The Novum Trilogy Book 1 eBook Moira Katson
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Breakthrough Novel Award Quarter Finalist, 2014
“We have come to a moment when what we know as goodness and mercy will not be enough to guide us any longer. Your loved ones may not ever understand what you did here today, but they need you to stand for all that is good in humanity."
With these words, war hero Benito Sandoval launched one of the most brutal massacres in human history, attacking the undefended colony of Guan-Yu and slaughtering forty thousand of the civilians he had sworn his life to protect. When humanity’s fleet arrives, too late to stop the attack, all that is left is ruins—and the cryptic words of a lone alien survivor, warning humanity of the Henth, a race that has devoured everything in its path.
Hunted to the brink of extinction, the Aireni were fleeing across the galaxy when they stumbled onto a living weapon with speed, strength, and brutal cleverness a fragment of humanity on a long-forgotten planet. In desperation, the Aireni set about honing humanity, breeding and modifying the colonists into a weapon that might be the last hope for life in the galaxy.
As the human fleet searches the stars for the Henth, they leave the ruined colony behind them. But the colonists have not been destroyed. They have hidden. They have survived. And they know who their enemies are.
It is only a matter of time before they return from their exodus to the destroyed city, to find the technology the Aireni left behind. It is only a matter of time before that technology carries them into the galaxy. And then, as the last remnants of the surviving races face down the final advance of the Henth, it is up to humanity to convince a long-lost weapon to come to its aid…
Crucible The Novum Trilogy Book 1 eBook Moira Katson
Crucible opens with the city of Guan-Yu under attack by unknown, but human, assailants. 40,000 souls are annihilated and the city is covered in radiation to make it uninhabitable.The inhabitants of Guan-Yu are pawns in an interstellar chess game. An alien race called the Aireni, set themselves up as “angels” over an agrarian human colony. Using the natives as breeding stock, the angels developed super-soldiers, calling them royals and setting them at the highest tier of the Aireni-imposed caste system. The royals are the Aireni’s weapon against the Great Evil, a mysterious entity that consumed the Aireni home world.
The League of Human Nations finds out about the Aireni super-soldiers. A rogue war hero, realizing the potential danger to his race, commandeers a ship and destroys Guan-Yu in a suicide mission. But the crafty Aireni have a contingency plan. They send out three groups of refugees from Guan-Yu to make a home in the wild and preserve the bloodline until the “angels” return. Together they will defeat the Great Evil.
In my opinion, what Katson does best is point of view. She buries her reader deep in the head of her characters, creating intense, emotionally developed narrators for her tale. Anchoring the action to the points of view of three different Guan-Yu refugees and one of the attackers, she hops from character to character, telling the same story multiple ways. Yeah, that’s right, she has four main characters—and she totally pulls it off.
A caution (and a whole paragraph of mixed metaphors): Crucible is a slow-burn. Katson doesn’t rush her story; this is a marathon, not a 5K. We’re not making beer here, people, we’re making brandy, and good brandy needs to be aged. While this book is a complete novel, Katson clearly intends to play out the larger story over the entire trilogy, so you will want to read these books in order.
And, when Book 2 is available, I shall.
Read Crucible. Highly recommended.
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Crucible The Novum Trilogy Book 1 eBook Moira Katson Reviews
I really enjoyed this book! I felt intrigued from the very beginning with the battle and attack on the planet! There's action, ships fighting, hand to hand combat, alien species, humans who are not human, intrigue, secrets upon secrets, betrayal and a softer side to the story with the people known as the "royals" experiencing human emotions for the first time. It's that old story of one culture and another having to come together in a crisis and work together to survive. In this case it's "the royals" and the humans against the makers of the Royals, the Aerini ( known as the angels), the humans who destroy their city and population, and "the Great Evil". The Great Evil is what the Aerini are terrified of and why they created the Royals; the rest of the human world has no idea about its existence until they attack this planet where the Aerini and the Royals reside. Now.....things have changed for everyone! The Great Evil won't stop until it's consumed everyone and everything! Can it be stopped?
This book is well written and edited. The beginning is all about setting the scene and emerging the reader in the story via action versus dialogue. So be patient at the beginning and allow the story to unfold, you'll be glad you did. This book is 348 pages of delightful storytelling. Definitely for adults and perhaps that older teen (18 or 19 yo) because of profanity and the loss of life at the beginning. I can't wait for the next book! I want to know what happens! ) Moria Katson pulls off another winner!
The plot is good and the evil they face is terrible. Long boring charter development and conversations made skip over a good bit of text. Not sure I will read any more...
Caveat - this is book one of the trilogy, not the full trilogy in one book. With that said it was highly enjoyable. I like reading different POVs all in one story and the interwoven strands from the different characters worked well to move the plot along. I just wish the next book was out already...
Good book
Kept me reading and wanting to read when I should have been working! Read during lunch, stayed up late, "just til the end of the chapter!" Looking forward to the next one
This was a good read...not too long not too short. Cant wait for book 2. Besides the usual kindle errors in typos and the use of the wrong word, its well worth it.
Really looking forward to the next two books in this trilogy. My only complaint, and it is fairly minor, is there just wasn't enough in this book to get to know the characters enough. It may have been a bit much to bring so many into a fairly short first book. Either way, it was very engaging and kept my interest throughout. Great story, and left me wanting more.
Crucible opens with the city of Guan-Yu under attack by unknown, but human, assailants. 40,000 souls are annihilated and the city is covered in radiation to make it uninhabitable.
The inhabitants of Guan-Yu are pawns in an interstellar chess game. An alien race called the Aireni, set themselves up as “angels” over an agrarian human colony. Using the natives as breeding stock, the angels developed super-soldiers, calling them royals and setting them at the highest tier of the Aireni-imposed caste system. The royals are the Aireni’s weapon against the Great Evil, a mysterious entity that consumed the Aireni home world.
The League of Human Nations finds out about the Aireni super-soldiers. A rogue war hero, realizing the potential danger to his race, commandeers a ship and destroys Guan-Yu in a suicide mission. But the crafty Aireni have a contingency plan. They send out three groups of refugees from Guan-Yu to make a home in the wild and preserve the bloodline until the “angels” return. Together they will defeat the Great Evil.
In my opinion, what Katson does best is point of view. She buries her reader deep in the head of her characters, creating intense, emotionally developed narrators for her tale. Anchoring the action to the points of view of three different Guan-Yu refugees and one of the attackers, she hops from character to character, telling the same story multiple ways. Yeah, that’s right, she has four main characters—and she totally pulls it off.
A caution (and a whole paragraph of mixed metaphors) Crucible is a slow-burn. Katson doesn’t rush her story; this is a marathon, not a 5K. We’re not making beer here, people, we’re making brandy, and good brandy needs to be aged. While this book is a complete novel, Katson clearly intends to play out the larger story over the entire trilogy, so you will want to read these books in order.
And, when Book 2 is available, I shall.
Read Crucible. Highly recommended.
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