Review: Liberation by Sabine Priestley

29 March of 2016 by Jean

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

A fast paced thrill ride putting answers to the series’ arc. I couldn’t put it down.

Liberation By Sabine Priestley

Sci-Fi Romance

Released December 1, 2015

KAC Publishing

Series: Alien Attachments, Book 3

Synopsis

“This book is a crazy, sexy, nonstop ride from the beginning to the end…” Reviewer Carol
Balastar Alder searches the galaxy for mysterious portal making devices to determine their origin and learn their secrets.

Kit Athorika is scrambling to avoid the Torog’s hunting her and retrieve the stash of hidden distorters.

Following the signal of foreign psi to an old abandoned building on Florin 5, Balastar literally stumbles across the pugnacious raven-haired beauty. Not only does Kit have the technology he seeks, but she uses it to port them to safety when the Torog’s attack. Without the help of a single Portal Master.

Balastar offers to repay the favor by getting her off planet and back to her own ship. Their escape is complicated when the Torog’s pursue. Forced to go silent and lay-low in an asteroid field, they have little to do. Fortunately, the chemistry between them quickly becomes combustible and they find endless ways to occupy their time.

Balastar convinces her to come and meet his boss, Lord Cavacent. Recently relocated to Earth, the Sandarian clan included a handful of rogue Portal Masters. Kit has her own reasons for hating and fearing the Portal Masters, but she needs all the help she can get to save her planet. She reluctantly agrees to seek out Lord Cavacent’s help, and his connections to the Galactic Trade Organization and its powerful military.

The Portal Masters’ Guild on Sandaria has controlled intergalactic portals throughout the galaxy for centuries, and jealously guard their secrets. One of those secrets has kept Kit’s home world under quarantine for nearly thirty years. But portals across the galaxy are failing and the guild is getting desperate.

Finding themselves bonded wasn’t expected, but having a psi-mate had its advantages. Can Kit and Balastar free and entire planet and take down the Portal Masters without losing their lives in the process?

Review

Reviewed by Jean

A fast paced thrill ride putting answers to the series’ arc. I couldn’t put it down.

Things have gotten just a bit hot for Kit on Florin 5. The granddaughter of one of her planet Vertan’s space pioneers, Kit lives a duplicitous life of smuggler and space captain. For thirty years her planet has been held in quarantine by the unscrupulous Portal Master’s Guild. It’s Kit’s job to help her people escape the quarantine and colonize other planets. She isn’t everyone’s favorite person on her planet. Heck, she is quite the rebel and very outspoken. Still she does what she can in their fight against the Torogs and the Guild. As a result, she is on their most wanted list and they’re on her tail. She’d of been captured many times over if it weren’t for the distorters created by her people. The small device allows her to portal from one distorter to another, something the Portal Masters will do anything to keep hidden as they have a monopoly on portal travel in the galaxy and mean to keep it that way.

Lord Balastar until recently was a councilman for the empire. Now the old empire is defunct and Balastar has taken up space trade. He’s also closely associated with the Cavacent clan who act as Earth’s protectors. The recent overthrowing of the old empire also resulted in the defection of quite a few of the portal masters that are now residing on Earth and the discovery of others in the galaxy with a very different type of psi. This very different psi combined with the discovery of the portal devices known as distorters has set Balastar on a mission to find more of the devices and their origins. It’s that very different psi that draws him to Kit’s location on Florin 5 and just in time as luck would have it. A quick jump and the two of them are introducing themselves and coming to terms on getting off the planet.

With the Torogs on their tails it becomes advantageous to go silent and hideout in an asteroid belt for a time. Leaves a bit of time with nothing to do but indulge their very strong attraction for the other. Even when these two finally come out of hiding it’s one dangerous situation to the next. Not only is Kit’s planet at stake but the very integral portals that tie the galaxy together. It’s all on Kit and Balastar to save the day. What the two didn’t see coming was the bonding of not only their bodies but their very hearts, souls and psi. While every preconceived notion that bonding is instantaneous is blown out the airlock these two soon come to realize just how much they love and need each other.

Liberation is a fast paced thrill ride putting answers to the series’ arc. I couldn’t put it down. If you like your loving in the stars along the slipstream with a bit of danger and intrigue you’re going to enjoy Liberation and the Alien Attachments series. It looks like there is one final short story available after this one so I’m looking forward to reading Alien Bond. I sure hope Ms. Priestley continues writing sci-fi romance because I certainly enjoy them.