Pawn

Chronicle of the Sibyl’s War, Book 1

De: Timothy Zahn

Narrado por: Joel Richards

Nicole Lee's life is going nowhere. No family, no money, and stuck in a relationship with a thug named Bungie. But, after one of Bungie's "deals" goes south, he and Nicole are whisked away by a mysterious moth-like humanoid to a strange ship called the Fyrantha.

Once aboard, life on the ship seems too good to be true. All she has to do is work on one of the ship's many maintenance crews. However, she learned long ago that nothing comes without a catch. When she's told to keep quiet and stop asking questions, she knows she is on to something.

Nicole soon discovers that many different factions are vying for control of the Fyrantha, and she and her friends are merely pawns in a game beyond their control. But, she is tired of being used, and now Nicole is going to fight.

©2017 Timothy Zahn (P)2017 Tantor

Things Are Not What They Seem

Nicole Lee does not have much of a life until she ends up on a alien star ship. Seems she is a Sibyl and can hear what repairs the ship needs. Then she becomes involved in a war between two other species and her life changes again. Nicole is a great character who changes as events come into her life. While she starts out as a street child she ends up with a job that can change the lives of all around her. This has interesting world building and character development. The backstory is woven into the book without changing the flow. This is book one in Sibyl's War and it sets the stage for the next two books. I could be a little slow at time and it kept me guessing on what was really happening and where the story was going. Joel Richards did a really ourstanding job on the various characters and keeping the pace of the story moving.

Not his best

The story started a little slow but nonetheless kept my interest for a while. Then some actions were not very believable because they didn’t fit the character, and others were … boring. I finished to see if the story would improve but it did not. The book wasn’t a total waste of time but it could have been much better.

Don’t expect much from this book

I slogged through this book and only originally bought it because of the author. This is not his best work. It is average. The characters are underdeveloped and underwhelming. The story is not exciting or intriguing. The mystery is kept until the final pages and it’s not a great payoff in my own opinion. The narrator isn’t great either. He doesn’t do different voices and reads it monotonously.

Great book after slow start

Tim Zahn has written a book with a very imaginative storyline. The concept of a huge spaceship that needs “sibyls” to communicate with it was very intriguing to me. My one complaint was that the book took a while before I really knew where it was going. At first I wasn’t bonding with the characters. But once the action started I got very interested in it. And the last quarter of the book had some great twists to it. I am now anxious to see what happens in Book 2 of the series.

Tim Zahn continues to show why he is my favorite sci-fi author.

I expected better from Zahn.

Zahn should stick to the Star Wars universe. This book is painfully slow, and uninteresting.