I had gotten behind on my reading list of minority sci-fi and fantasy writers. However, I was finally able to get a copy of Warchild by South American born Karin Lowachee. It wasn’t a bad read, but it wasn’t spectacular either. The story follows Jos Musey who gets taken at the age of 8 by pirates who killed his parents and destroyed the merchant ship that he was raised on. He was saved from a life of servitude when an alien race who’s at war with humans attacks a space station he’s on. He’s injured and taken by the aliens. We follow him for almost ten years during his journey in learning about the aliens the humans are at war with, and his eventual confrontation with his past. The space battles and crew battles could have been better. Also, if you are a bit squeamish about suggested homo eroticism, you should avoid this book. There aren’t sex scenes between men and young boys, but there is a lot implied.
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This post was written by Bedlam on October 28, 2009
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