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During a fight opposite murderous, flesh-eating aliens, grimspace jumper" Sirantha Jax motionless to go it alone. The cost of her actions: a drop of complicated interstellar travel-and a lives of 6 hundred Conglomerate soldiers. Now she's on hearing fro abandonment of duty, desertion, mass murder, high treason...and her life.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #86310 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-08-30
- Released on: 2011-08-30
- Format: Kindle eBook
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About a Author
In her life, Ann Aguirre has been a clown, a clerk, a voice actress, and savior of wandering kittens, not indispensably in that order. She grew adult in a yellow residence opposite from a cornfield, though now she lives in balmy Mexico with her father and dual darling children who infrequently do as they are told.
I've substantially pronounced this in any Sirantha Jax examination I've written, yet I'll contend it again. we don't examination a lot of Sci-Fi. The suspicion of Sci-Fi usually doesn't seductiveness to me. It's like one step too distant past paranormal and we don't have interest. But prolonged ago, someone endorsed Grimspace by Ann Aguirre, and we picked it up. And we desired it. we can't assistance yet to examination Sirantha Jax to Kate Daniels (from Ilona Andrews series). They are both so unselfish, honorable, consistent to their friends individuals. They get crap handed to them, and they keep persevering. At one indicate in Aftermath, Jax is in a flattering apocalyptic situation. But she won't use a word "if". It is usually "when" she can find her approach home. She never gives adult on herself, nor a ones she cares about, and for that we can't assistance yet admire her character.
At a finish of Killbox, Jax finished a large decision. A preference she finished on her own, To save a masses, she jumps into grimspace to change a beacons, anticipating she can put a ever immorality Morgut off lane so they can't continue to exterminate class in a star and take planets for their own. When Jax changes a beacons, a Morgut can't navigate. But conjunction can a Conglomerate.
As a outcome of her actions, she saves many (the Morgut remove many of their ships), yet kills 600 soldiers. She knows low down what she did was best for a universe, yet those genocide import difficult on her. And a Conglomerate can't let her go unpunished for her actions given she acted on her own. With riots perfectionist her death, Jax goes to hearing for her actions.
This usually covers a unequivocally tiny apportionment of a book yet we usually don't wish to give anything away. we had NO suspicion how this hearing would spin out and there is so many some-more to this book. The tour we go on, dumbfounded me. Aftermath starts out so emotional. Jax has no suspicion where Mar is, or if he is even alive. She is traffic with a shame of 600 deaths. She is decompressing from this outrageous preference she had to make, usually to be thrown in jail carrying no suspicion what her destiny holds. From page one, a romantic impact of this book is huge. And we suspicion to myself that this turn of power can't continue via a book. And while it doesn't necessarily, what happens after a trial, usually blew me away. And by a finish of a book, we strech an whole new romantic high.
For a lot of this book, Mar and Jax are separated. Mar is unfortunate to find his long, mislaid nephew and carrying no suspicion how many time Jax's hearing will last, he takes off to another land to start his search. Through a array of letters that Ann Aguirre includes, Jax and Mar stay in contact. But Vel - oh Vel. Solid, consistent Vel who has turn so tighten to Jax is a one there for her. What we learn about Vel is so good. How did this bug, this non-human with side-set eyes and a cool, tough chitin physique turn one of my many favorite characters?
Why do we adore this array so much? Ann Aguirre is an extraordinary story teller. She started with this crazy sci-fi universe yet what she unequivocally has given us are memorable characters. She doesn't give Jax an easy approach out, yet she stays consistent to her characters. She gives us characters that are flawed. That don't know if they are creation good decisions yet that is fine since a consequences are so fascinating to examination about. Most importantly, she creates we comprehend there are opposite forms of love, and a happily ever after doesn't have to fit into a box. And no matter how dim it gets, Sirantha Jax never gives adult on a ones she loves. we have no suspicion where she will take us in a final book, Endgame, yet I. Can't. Wait.
Review pleasantness of All Things Urban Fantasy:
[...]
The Sirantha Jax array feels like it's altered so many from those first, frenetic, action-packed books, yet we know that's not unconditionally accurate . Jax's universe is as disorderly and domestic and diligent with hazard as ever, yet my attribute with a characters has deepened to a indicate where they are roughly all we see anymore. Though not in an civic anticipation setting, fans will find a class and technologies in this universe are combined as accessibly as any magic, and a intrigue and mutation portrayed unequivocally fit a kick-butt heroine bill. AFTERMATH, some-more than any other book in a series, has a flavors of an epistolary novel. Not in a clarity that stream events are shown usually by letters, yet a characters that I've grown to adore so many flow their hearts out to any other by a void of space in letters and stories and memories.
Those letters are necessary, as domestic onslaught and responsibilities detached lovers Jax and Mar again and again. Nothing brings home a indomitable mutation of life than Mar acid for his nephew on a distant divided universe while Jax is on hearing for her life. That turns out to be a initial of many required separations for these dual over a march of a book. Of course, while Mar is physically absent, that doesn't meant Jax is alone. Vel is there for her, perpetually consistent and understanding and undemanding. Jax and Vel, any so opposite from others of their possess species, have assimilated together in a unaccompanied clan of two. Aguirre writes a many tellurian of relationships, yet ever glossing over a truly visitor differences between them. Aguirre has not combined anything so common as a adore triangle between Jax and Mar and Vel. Rather, she has combined dual graphic futures for a heroine, in that Jax's dreams take on clearly different, yet beautiful, forms.
Maturity feels like too light a word for a mutation Jax has been going by over a final few books. Perhaps Vel has given me a chitinous support of mind, yet we can see Jax violation giveaway from a brightly colored chrysalis. AFTERMATH is a book where she starts to dry her wings, pulling giveaway of a holds that have kept her to earth for so long. we would unequivocally suggest readers start during a commencement for a entire, stately ride. As for me, my heart is in my throat during a suspicion of reading a final of this series, ENDGAME. Part of me can't wait for Aguirre to continue weaving her spell, yet a rest of me will always remember Jax during a finish of AFTERMATH: staid between a poles of dual such pleasing destinies, vast possibilities laid out during her feet.
Sexual Content: References to and descriptions of sex, sex scenes.
Things have been tough for Jax. After altering a maritime beacons in space to equivocate widespread conflict by a infamous Morgut,she's lauded for her aplomb by those that know her,and cursed for a many lives mislaid as a result. No matter that many some-more lives would have been mislaid if she had finished differently. Problem is,Jax acted on her own,and it cost her. It's cost a lives of some she loves,and presumably a honour of a male she loves,March. So,the Conglomerate decides that she contingency mount trial,and charged with desertion,dereliction,mass murder,and high treason,Jax will have to accumulate her wits,and her friends around her,in sequence to survive.
Aftermath is a 5th novel in a Sirantha Jax series,and it's usually brilliant. The author unequivocally puts Jax by a romantic and earthy ringer in this one,and while Jax is no foreigner to strife,she's also not a same fun-loving celebration lady she was in Grimspace. Older,wiser,and in many ways deeply wounded,Jax is a finish woman,in scarcely any way,though her onslaught to change her adore for Mar (and his new reason to settle down) and her need to burst is a consistent stressor. However,one of my favorite tools of this array is her attribute with Vel,the Ithtorian annuity hunter that Jax forges a bond with early on in a series. Yes,Jax's attribute with Mar is ardent and diligent with doubt and danger,but what she has with Vel is solid and pure,and I'll admit,I've always secure for them. Vel is a insectoid being from a universe as distant detached from ours as we can imagine,but he's unequivocally opposite from his possess kind,as is Jax,and this is partial of because their attribute is so enduring,and their bond so strong. Their attribute is proposal (no,I'm not articulate about sex),enduring,complicated,and during times heart wrenching. It's also one of a things that has brought me behind to this array again and again. In Aftermath,Jax goes on trial,is bearing into another universe with Vel that might exhibit new secrets about a Makers,and learns new things about herself that will change her life forever. Don't like sci-fi? Doesn't matter. we didn't consider we favourite it either,then we detected Jax,and a whole new universe non-stop adult for me. Ms. Aguirre has struck bullion with this series. The essay is superb,the pacing is flawless,and Jax's universe is zero brief of fascinating. Jax will pleasure you,break your heart over and over,and keep we entrance behind for more. we titillate we to give this array a try,and will wish you'll tumble in adore with Jax,just like we did.
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18 of 18 people found a following examination helpful.
Aftermath
By A. Schreiner
I've substantially pronounced this in any Sirantha Jax examination I've written, yet I'll contend it again. we don't examination a lot of Sci-Fi. The suspicion of Sci-Fi usually doesn't seductiveness to me. It's like one step too distant past paranormal and we don't have interest. But prolonged ago, someone endorsed Grimspace by Ann Aguirre, and we picked it up. And we desired it. we can't assistance yet to examination Sirantha Jax to Kate Daniels (from Ilona Andrews series). They are both so unselfish, honorable, consistent to their friends individuals. They get crap handed to them, and they keep persevering. At one indicate in Aftermath, Jax is in a flattering apocalyptic situation. But she won't use a word "if". It is usually "when" she can find her approach home. She never gives adult on herself, nor a ones she cares about, and for that we can't assistance yet admire her character.
At a finish of Killbox, Jax finished a large decision. A preference she finished on her own, To save a masses, she jumps into grimspace to change a beacons, anticipating she can put a ever immorality Morgut off lane so they can't continue to exterminate class in a star and take planets for their own. When Jax changes a beacons, a Morgut can't navigate. But conjunction can a Conglomerate.
As a outcome of her actions, she saves many (the Morgut remove many of their ships), yet kills 600 soldiers. She knows low down what she did was best for a universe, yet those genocide import difficult on her. And a Conglomerate can't let her go unpunished for her actions given she acted on her own. With riots perfectionist her death, Jax goes to hearing for her actions.
This usually covers a unequivocally tiny apportionment of a book yet we usually don't wish to give anything away. we had NO suspicion how this hearing would spin out and there is so many some-more to this book. The tour we go on, dumbfounded me. Aftermath starts out so emotional. Jax has no suspicion where Mar is, or if he is even alive. She is traffic with a shame of 600 deaths. She is decompressing from this outrageous preference she had to make, usually to be thrown in jail carrying no suspicion what her destiny holds. From page one, a romantic impact of this book is huge. And we suspicion to myself that this turn of power can't continue via a book. And while it doesn't necessarily, what happens after a trial, usually blew me away. And by a finish of a book, we strech an whole new romantic high.
For a lot of this book, Mar and Jax are separated. Mar is unfortunate to find his long, mislaid nephew and carrying no suspicion how many time Jax's hearing will last, he takes off to another land to start his search. Through a array of letters that Ann Aguirre includes, Jax and Mar stay in contact. But Vel - oh Vel. Solid, consistent Vel who has turn so tighten to Jax is a one there for her. What we learn about Vel is so good. How did this bug, this non-human with side-set eyes and a cool, tough chitin physique turn one of my many favorite characters?
Why do we adore this array so much? Ann Aguirre is an extraordinary story teller. She started with this crazy sci-fi universe yet what she unequivocally has given us are memorable characters. She doesn't give Jax an easy approach out, yet she stays consistent to her characters. She gives us characters that are flawed. That don't know if they are creation good decisions yet that is fine since a consequences are so fascinating to examination about. Most importantly, she creates we comprehend there are opposite forms of love, and a happily ever after doesn't have to fit into a box. And no matter how dim it gets, Sirantha Jax never gives adult on a ones she loves. we have no suspicion where she will take us in a final book, Endgame, yet I. Can't. Wait.
10 of 10 people found a following examination helpful.
Two distinct, pleasing futures for Jax.
By J. Markovic
Review pleasantness of All Things Urban Fantasy:
[...]
The Sirantha Jax array feels like it's altered so many from those first, frenetic, action-packed books, yet we know that's not unconditionally accurate . Jax's universe is as disorderly and domestic and diligent with hazard as ever, yet my attribute with a characters has deepened to a indicate where they are roughly all we see anymore. Though not in an civic anticipation setting, fans will find a class and technologies in this universe are combined as accessibly as any magic, and a intrigue and mutation portrayed unequivocally fit a kick-butt heroine bill. AFTERMATH, some-more than any other book in a series, has a flavors of an epistolary novel. Not in a clarity that stream events are shown usually by letters, yet a characters that I've grown to adore so many flow their hearts out to any other by a void of space in letters and stories and memories.
Those letters are necessary, as domestic onslaught and responsibilities detached lovers Jax and Mar again and again. Nothing brings home a indomitable mutation of life than Mar acid for his nephew on a distant divided universe while Jax is on hearing for her life. That turns out to be a initial of many required separations for these dual over a march of a book. Of course, while Mar is physically absent, that doesn't meant Jax is alone. Vel is there for her, perpetually consistent and understanding and undemanding. Jax and Vel, any so opposite from others of their possess species, have assimilated together in a unaccompanied clan of two. Aguirre writes a many tellurian of relationships, yet ever glossing over a truly visitor differences between them. Aguirre has not combined anything so common as a adore triangle between Jax and Mar and Vel. Rather, she has combined dual graphic futures for a heroine, in that Jax's dreams take on clearly different, yet beautiful, forms.
Maturity feels like too light a word for a mutation Jax has been going by over a final few books. Perhaps Vel has given me a chitinous support of mind, yet we can see Jax violation giveaway from a brightly colored chrysalis. AFTERMATH is a book where she starts to dry her wings, pulling giveaway of a holds that have kept her to earth for so long. we would unequivocally suggest readers start during a commencement for a entire, stately ride. As for me, my heart is in my throat during a suspicion of reading a final of this series, ENDGAME. Part of me can't wait for Aguirre to continue weaving her spell, yet a rest of me will always remember Jax during a finish of AFTERMATH: staid between a poles of dual such pleasing destinies, vast possibilities laid out during her feet.
Sexual Content: References to and descriptions of sex, sex scenes.
6 of 6 people found a following examination helpful.
A overwhelming entrance in a smashing sci-fi series!
By MyBookishWays
Things have been tough for Jax. After altering a maritime beacons in space to equivocate widespread conflict by a infamous Morgut,she's lauded for her aplomb by those that know her,and cursed for a many lives mislaid as a result. No matter that many some-more lives would have been mislaid if she had finished differently. Problem is,Jax acted on her own,and it cost her. It's cost a lives of some she loves,and presumably a honour of a male she loves,March. So,the Conglomerate decides that she contingency mount trial,and charged with desertion,dereliction,mass murder,and high treason,Jax will have to accumulate her wits,and her friends around her,in sequence to survive.
Aftermath is a 5th novel in a Sirantha Jax series,and it's usually brilliant. The author unequivocally puts Jax by a romantic and earthy ringer in this one,and while Jax is no foreigner to strife,she's also not a same fun-loving celebration lady she was in Grimspace. Older,wiser,and in many ways deeply wounded,Jax is a finish woman,in scarcely any way,though her onslaught to change her adore for Mar (and his new reason to settle down) and her need to burst is a consistent stressor. However,one of my favorite tools of this array is her attribute with Vel,the Ithtorian annuity hunter that Jax forges a bond with early on in a series. Yes,Jax's attribute with Mar is ardent and diligent with doubt and danger,but what she has with Vel is solid and pure,and I'll admit,I've always secure for them. Vel is a insectoid being from a universe as distant detached from ours as we can imagine,but he's unequivocally opposite from his possess kind,as is Jax,and this is partial of because their attribute is so enduring,and their bond so strong. Their attribute is proposal (no,I'm not articulate about sex),enduring,complicated,and during times heart wrenching. It's also one of a things that has brought me behind to this array again and again. In Aftermath,Jax goes on trial,is bearing into another universe with Vel that might exhibit new secrets about a Makers,and learns new things about herself that will change her life forever. Don't like sci-fi? Doesn't matter. we didn't consider we favourite it either,then we detected Jax,and a whole new universe non-stop adult for me. Ms. Aguirre has struck bullion with this series. The essay is superb,the pacing is flawless,and Jax's universe is zero brief of fascinating. Jax will pleasure you,break your heart over and over,and keep we entrance behind for more. we titillate we to give this array a try,and will wish you'll tumble in adore with Jax,just like we did.
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