{"id":3320,"date":"2017-04-06T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2017-04-12T11:13:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T11:13:16","slug":"off-rock-by-kieran-shea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/science-fiction\/off-rock-by-kieran-shea\/","title":{"rendered":"Off Rock, by Kieran Shea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"off-rock-by-kieran-shea<\/a>Genre: Science Fiction<\/strong>
\nPublisher: Titan Publishing<\/strong>
\nPublished: 2017<\/strong>
\nReviewer Rating:\u00a0\"four<\/strong>
\nReviewer: Michael Griffiths<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Off Rock<\/strong>, by Kieran Shea is a Science Fiction novel with the beginning 98% of the novel taking place on an asteroid being mined by the main characters. Jimmy is a grunt miner who’s getting a little old for the job and not too many options on how to move on. This changes when he happens on a hidden vein of gold. Getting caught means life in prison and being subject to experimentation, but this does not keep Jimmy from wanting to get himself–and the gold–Off Rock.<\/p>\n

Jimmy’s first step is to team up with the station’s primary wheeler and dealer in black market goods. This person is untrustworthy at best, but his primary problem is his ex-girlfriend, who not only has it in for him, but is also his supervisor. The plot thickens as a beautiful assassin is sent to take out Jimmy’s partner because of all the money he owes to a crime organization.<\/p>\n

Betrayals and lies start to build us and his ex suspects something is going on. Add to this Jimmy’s stash ends up being only a fraction of the size he thought it was. It’s enough to live on, but certainly not the life changing money for two people to split.<\/p>\n

This book builds slowly as the tension continues to intensify. The last third becomes an exciting ride as chaos erupts on the mining asteroid. Jimmy is a likable character and you want to see him make it through this even when many of his problems are of his own creation.<\/p>\n

If you are looking for hardcore science, this book might not be for you, although it uses many of the dangers of space, it is a very human story focusing on the dynamics between people more than repairing warp drives outside of black holes.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the character development and interaction, which took place in this novel. You really care about Jimmy by the time the climax of the novel crashes into you.<\/p>\n

I would recommend this novel to lovers of science fiction and action in general. Again, Titan nails another rock star novel to their resume.<\/p>\n

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Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Titan Publishing Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating:\u00a0 Reviewer: Michael Griffiths Have you read this book? Off Rock, by Kieran Shea is a Science Fiction novel with the beginning 98% of the novel taking place on an asteroid being mined by the main characters. Jimmy is a grunt …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":3366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[71,1021,779,912,1020],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}