Book Title: The Cairns of Sainctuarie: The Missing Planet (Volume II) by Hawk MacKinney
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 258 pages
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Sage Words Publishing
Release date: April 2015
Format available for review: ebook (gifted kindle), pdf
Tour dates: Jan 27, 2020 to Feb 14, 2020
Content Rating: PG-13: Some of the war scenes are graphic.
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About the Book
Generations after the great Murian upheaval of the Malfesian War against the Bleikovats, the Accords between planets Terato and Myr are signed. Provisional Outpost Terato is under construction near a farm where Teratoan orphan Eklam a’Qoc lives with his uncle and cousin.
Inquisitive strong-minded Eklam, Ek to everyone in the village, is captivated by the off-worlders technology, and becomes an apprentice to the Outpost Terato’s Murian commander, Grand Duke Korvo. Uncle a’Qoc disapproves; wants nothing to do with these outlanders, wants their shimmering doorway portals-of-travel banned from Terato. As Outpost Terato becomes operational it seems to become a harbinger stirring ageless secrets of The Old Ones and their frightful weapons, of ancient Teratoan ruins, mysterious glowing lights, unexplained killings, a sacred book in a language no Teratoan can read, a moon that doesn’t behave like a moon in its wobbly orbit.
From cosmic reaches beyond space and time the ominous secrets of Terato’s ancient ruins become more threatening. Ek and Korvo realize both their worlds face extinction with any hope buried somewhere in unknown galaxies far beyond a pastoral Terato or the sophisticated star-empire of the Murians; of missing planets in a star system with its single star in a galaxy far-removed unknown to Terato or Myr. They travel across the universe to a place long forgotten to fight this unknown foe with weapons only dreamed of. Together they face the beast that wishes to consume the entire universe.
My Review
The Missing Planets Serves Readers Heavy Science Fiction with Strong Characters. The author creates a very scientific, technical focus throughout the storyline in this novel. Expect to focus on the story at hand as it does offer some complicated, heavy science fiction. Expect to read the novel's glossary before you begin the novel--and revisit it at times throughout the story. While the novel is not a light, fantasy/science fiction tale--the author does a wonderful job keeping the story organized, and flowing well with action-packed scenes and strong characters with engaging dialogue. Most of the novel details were well explained within the text as the scenes unfolded--but, there were times that my focus drifted and I needed to re-read passages or consult the glossary to ensure that I was piecing things together correctly. While the storyline and science is complicated, the novel is very well developed and keeps readers interested and engaged from the start.
The Missing Planets is Best Read in Series. This is a stand-alone novel--but, I feel that readers will gain much more of the history and depth of the story if the books are read in order. As with the first novel, the characters pull readers through the adventure and push us toward the final book of the series. While you could read the novel as a stand-alone--the author laid so much history and established such a developed world through the first novel that it adds to the adventures and progression of the series.
Would I recommend The Missing Planets by Hawk MacKinney? If you enjoy heavy, technical, science fiction that requires attention to detail but offers strong characters and an even pace--I would recommend this series. As with the first book of the series, this is not a light read--and it may take some time to settle into the author's writing style and absorb the details (especially if you miss the novel's glossary or didn't read the first book). Personally, I enjoyed the adventures and character interactions of the first novel a bit more than this one--but, I looked forward to continuing the series with the third book.
Book Title: The Cairns of Sainctuarie: The Bleikovat Event (Volume 1) by Hawk MacKinney
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 228 pages
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Sage Words Publishing
Release date: Oct 2012
Tour dates: Jan 27, 2020 to Feb 14, 2020
Content Rating: PG-13: Some of the war scenes are graphic.
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From a rocky outcrop, a battle-widowed Etkaa gazed down at the death and upheaval. Rancid green Murian blood stenched the dusk lit breezes from the haze-dimmed river marshlands. Nothing has been spared by the Green Dragon forces of Bleikovia. In skirmishes along the Feldon River, Etkaa’s mate is fatally wounded with deadly selvon poison. Through a gruesome mountain trek of icy blizzards, they elude the Green Dragon. The battered starving Feldovats reach the coast at Eedov City only to be confronted by their implacable enemy determined to destroy the remaining Klarvkon rabble. Taking passage on crowded Maalon freighters, the refugees escape toward a new life among their Maalon hosts. Enraged Bleikovats move against the Klarvkons, bringing indiscriminate bloodshed. War once again surfaces, as it did in the muddy filth along the Feldon River of Malfesov, and becomes a different kind of war.
Book Title: Inanna Phantom, Volume III - The Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series by Hawk MacKinney
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 270 pages
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Sage Words Publishing
Release date: Sep 2019
Tour dates: Jan 27, 2020 to Feb 14, 2020
Content Rating: PG-13: Some of the war scenes are graphic.
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The threat of rift invasions seem long passed. Plentiful harvests abound. The Marian first-contact Terato Outpost has grown into the sprawling Terato-Murian Terminus Terato with a hub of relay portals reaching across the vast uncharted galactic expanses and connecting with its eon-extinct Lantaraan prehistory. An exploratory Terato-Murian Jupiterr outpost is established on the gas giant seventh planet, and its quantum and gravitational energies are used to power outpost portals for an archeological survey of the fourth planet, Eorthe. The Lanterman database aboard Terato’s ancient Downday moon shows that one or more planets of the Solaris planets have apparently been lost. Expanded archeological records on other Lantaraan orbital bodies in the Solaris system show the fourth planet from the star—Eorthe—to be a sterile wasteland. Except it is not. Eorthe’s civilization is not to the level of the Murian Empire, but it is far advanced to those of a pastoral Terato. Terato and Eorthe form the confederated United Terran League under the nominal figurehead leader of League High Judikarr Eklam a’Qoc. Jupiterr outpost expands into a major League stronghold, Jupiterr Base, when civil unrest erupts in the League, the unexpected return of rift intrusions threatens, and the Murian Emperor Klarvko Celo is assassinated. As they prepare for confrontations with an unknown ancient enemy, the internal tensions on Myr and Eorthe push Murians and Teratoans to dangerous discords.
Meet the Author
Hawk has authored several works of fiction including a historical romance Moccasin Trace which was nominated for both the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award. His Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series and his Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series have received national and international attention.
With postgraduate degrees and faculty positions in several medical universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both The United States and Jerusalem. His professional writing includes articles on chordate neuroembryology, and aerospace research on muscle metabolic behavior in multi-orbital environments.
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Book Corner News & reviews/Angela THOMPSON - Thank you for hosting the IRead Tour of The Missing Planets, Volume II in The Cairns of Sainctuarie Sci-Fi Series and for your review that caught the interplays between action-readers & we techies.
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