I finished Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro. I have read a couple of her other titles and enjoyed them, but PI is my first foray into the Skolian Empire. I think I am hooked. What I really enjoyed about the book was the deeper reaches into the mind of the main character, Soz. She has family obligations and demands that are enormous. She has lost a younger brother that she was very close to. She is a mechanized jaugernaut dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder. She is part of a royal dynasty but wants to maintain her anonymity. She is looking for love. She is a multifaceted woman with an action filled life.
Another quick read that I found on my Kindle and finished this week was The Prometheus Project: Trapped by Douglas E. Richards. This is the first book in a trilogy, and is a good, fast paced story that held my interest. It reminded me of books that I read when I was in junior high-- the kind that allowed me to insert myself in the story and experience the action right along with the main characters. Very reminiscent of A Wrinkle in Time... The story begins with a brother and sister who have been uprooted from their home in San Diego (!) and transplanted to a place in upstate Pennsylvania (ha!). They are bored to death in their new home. They soon find out that their parents, who are scientists, have been relocated to Pennsylvania to work in a top secret facility where something really weird is going on. The excitement only continues to grow... This is an excellent, total page turner of a book to get kids excited about science and mystery and other worlds, and the question "what if?"
I couldn't wait, and have already started to read the next book, The Prometheus Project: Captured. There is no doubt that I will be reading the third book as well!
