Lost Solace

Paperback, 270 pages

Published Oct. 15, 2017 by Organic Apocalypse.

ISBN:
9781911278115

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4 stars (1 review)

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Great start to the series

4 stars

Having enjoyed reading Karl Drinkwater's novella, Helene, back in March I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to read two further full length novels of his, set in the same universe. Lost Solace is the first of these and I shall also be reading its sequel, Chasing Solace, in the next few weeks. Lost Solace was published two years before Helene and it shares Drinkwater's effective scenario of a woman alone with only an AI intelligence for company. Opal has stolen a spaceship and is on the run, but initially I didn't know exactly what she had to escape from or the significance of this Lost Ship. Drinkwater doesn't fall into the trap of slowing his stories with unwieldy info dumps, instead he deftly weaves the necessary background information into the narrative by way of characters' brief memories or conversations. I appreciate this prose style because it allowed me …