Girl of
Fire
The
Expulsion Project #1
by
Norma Hinkens
Publised:
January 10, 2017
Publisher:
Dunecadia Publishing
Genre:
Science Fiction, Young Adult
Blurb:
ORIGIN.
DESTINY. FATE. How far would you go to unravel the truth?
Trattora
is the adopted daughter of the Chieftain on a primitive frontier planet. Velkan
is an indentured serf who has never known a day of freedom. Forced to flee an
invasion by Galactic Pirates, they find themselves thrown together on a
ramshackle mining vessel that harbors more than one dark secret. Fate and
chemistry combine when the pair’s matching birth bracelets lead them to a
shocking discovery about their true lineage. Stakes rise when they uncover the
classified Expulsion Project, and the devastating sacrifice their birth
families made to spare their lives. Determined to save them from liquidation,
Trattora and Velkan plunge headlong into a race against time and space to take
down the genocidal self-actualizing software that now controls large swathes of
their home planet.
But
will they navigate the treacherous dealings of the seedy Galactic underworld in
time to rescue the families who loved them enough to let them go?
Girl
of Fire is the first novel in The Expulsion Project, a sci-fi, dystopian
thriller trilogy with a whisper of romance, a heavy dose of adventure, and
action galore. If you are a Firefly or Dark Matter fan, or in Divergent
withdrawal, this is the book mashup for you!
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My
Review:
Trattora
lives on the planet Cwelt with her adoptive parents; the chieftain and his
wife. Trattora was adopted from traders’ years ago. Although she has always
loved and cared very much for her adoptive parents she has always wanted to
know who her birth parents were and where she came from. Trattora is the next
in line to be leader after her father as chieftain of Cwelt but she has always
wanted to have her own ship so that she could travel the universe and explore
other planets.
One
day a trader ship comes for a visit on Cwelt and is hoping to make a big
discovery on the planet that would make them rich. Trattora and her best friend
play host to the traders while they are snooping around their planet. Trattora
in hopes of one day owning her own ship like the traders and thinks that if the
traders find what they are looking for then her dreams may come true.
But
before her dreams or the traders are fulfilled Cwelt is attacked which sends
all of Trattora’s people in hiding. Trattora and her friend don’t have time to
make it to their hiding place so they hop on board the trader’s ship to escape
and hope to return one day to save her people.
Trattora’s
dreams are finally coming true in a way she is getting to travel on a ship but
just not the way she planned. But Trattora is a tough girl and makes the best
of the situation that she is dealt. Now Trattora’s plans are to get her own
ship, travel around the universe, rescue the people on Cwelt, and find out who
her birth parents were but not necessarily in that order.
I
will have to say that I have truly loved traveling from planet to planet with
Trattora and all her friends. I felt as if I was visiting old friends again
myself like Spock and Captain Kirk and flying around on the Enterprise. I
enjoyed reading about all the different technology and learning all the words
but I would like to have had a list or index to
refer to on occasion to help keep my mind refreshed on what their
meanings were.
If
you like reading science fiction or traveling around the universe or like old
shows like Star Trek then I think you are going to love Girl of Fire and its
new trilogy The Expulsion Project I know I am. I can’t wait to read more about The
Expulsion Project.
About the Author:
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Travel junkie, former professional globetrotter, legend lover, idea wrangler. Norma Hinkens has lived, worked and visited her way across continents, soaking up stories along the way. Her writing is influenced by the resilient characters she met along the way; everyone has a story!
Travel junkie, former professional globetrotter, legend lover, idea wrangler. Norma Hinkens has lived, worked and visited her way across continents, soaking up stories along the way. Her writing is influenced by the resilient characters she met along the way; everyone has a story!
Norma grew up among vibrant storytelling traditions in her native Ireland. She's a legend-loving author who takes a fiendish delight in pushing reluctant characters over cliffs to find out what they’re made of. Epic odds, seemingly impossible missions, pasts that haunt, intrigue and misadventure. She’s happiest when wrangling provocative big picture ideas that are never black and white when you turn them inside out. It’s all about the tension in the journey.
She currently resides in California with her husband, three children and Chihuahua extraordinaire. She is the author of the YA post-apocalyptic Undergrounders Series: Immurement, Embattlement and Adjudgement.
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