5/26/2023 0 Comments Lost Solace by Karl Drinkwater![]() ![]() ![]() She is very believable, flawed but fascinating, as all the best kick-ass heroines are. Karl Drinkwater has a way of ramping up the tension, while at the same time creating empathy, I CARED about Opal, felt every emotion with her as she explored the lost ship and tried to solve the puzzles aided by a snappy one-liner from the A.I. It’s clear that she has a past, information is passedĪlong sparingly, making us yearn for more. Opal is a girl on a mission we don’t know what but it’sĬlearly important to her. ![]() Our human, Opal, has a past and she also has a fantastic foil inĬlarissa, the artificial intelligence of the ship she is flying at the start of This could make the story boring and one-dimensional but That it has only one human character for most of it, any other humans thatĪppear are peripheral. Lost Solace is a book influenced by Alien, it’s unusual in Kick-ass women and an unspecified conspiracy. It introduced the ideas of a creepy spaceship, hidden danger, Today, it might seem like a lot of other films, back then it If I might digress for a moment, way back in 1979, I saw aįilm called Alien. ![]()
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