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Spectrum Chronicles #4
Heart Chaser
Consuela continues her quest, but danger threatens the one she loves and the place she has learned to call home.
155 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
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About the author
Thomas Locke
29 books305 followersThomas Locke is an award-winning novelist with total worldwide sales of seven million copies.
His work has been published in twenty languages, and critical acclaim includes four Christy Awards for excellence in fiction and his 2014 induction into the Christy Hall of Fame.
Thomas divides his time between Florida and England, where he serves as Writer In Residence at Regent's Park College, Oxford University. He holds a lifelong passion for epic fantasy, science fiction and techno-thriller stories.
Thomas's screenplay adaption of EMISSARY is under development as a feature film with a British production company.
Contact Thomas at info@tlocke.com
His work has been published in twenty languages, and critical acclaim includes four Christy Awards for excellence in fiction and his 2014 induction into the Christy Hall of Fame.
Thomas divides his time between Florida and England, where he serves as Writer In Residence at Regent's Park College, Oxford University. He holds a lifelong passion for epic fantasy, science fiction and techno-thriller stories.
Thomas's screenplay adaption of EMISSARY is under development as a feature film with a British production company.
Contact Thomas at info@tlocke.com
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November 9, 2017
This is the fourth and last book of the Spectrum Chronicles. As a young person, it seemed AGES before this book was FINALLY published and we readers knew what would happen between Consuela and Wander.
This last book has Captain Arnol and Pilot Dunlevy detained by Hegemony forces while Tucker, and Guns take Rick and Consuela (with others and equipment) as a mercenary group looking for work. They find a caravan headed for Yalla, but the owner's son has misgivings. He challenges Rick to a low gravity speed race (think snowboarding on a desert planet). The book gives a detailed description of this, which Rick survives.
The mercenary unit earns their keep when bandits attack the caravan. Consuela is able to find the Citadel. Wander realizes the Citadel's weakness and both he and Digs are rescued and therefore he is reunited with Consuela.
The epilogue has both Rick and Consuela receiving some advice from Daniel and Bliss regarding what their respective paths as Christians might be. Consuela takes a roller coaster ride back to be with Wander, but we are not told what Rick's path may be.
As a young person, this seems a very fitting end to the limited issues brought up. As an adult, I wonder if this is more a jumping off point to a larger series (struggle between the Hegemony and the planets they have oppressed).
This last book has Captain Arnol and Pilot Dunlevy detained by Hegemony forces while Tucker, and Guns take Rick and Consuela (with others and equipment) as a mercenary group looking for work. They find a caravan headed for Yalla, but the owner's son has misgivings. He challenges Rick to a low gravity speed race (think snowboarding on a desert planet). The book gives a detailed description of this, which Rick survives.
The mercenary unit earns their keep when bandits attack the caravan. Consuela is able to find the Citadel. Wander realizes the Citadel's weakness and both he and Digs are rescued and therefore he is reunited with Consuela.
The epilogue has both Rick and Consuela receiving some advice from Daniel and Bliss regarding what their respective paths as Christians might be. Consuela takes a roller coaster ride back to be with Wander, but we are not told what Rick's path may be.
As a young person, this seems a very fitting end to the limited issues brought up. As an adult, I wonder if this is more a jumping off point to a larger series (struggle between the Hegemony and the planets they have oppressed).
March 14, 2025
I love happy endings don't you? Especially to series. Unfortunately this ending was not satisfying to me at all. The book was mostly lengthily descriptions of battles that you know who is going to win at the beginning of the fight. Also it was repeating all the agony that Wonder and Consoula are going though because there not together that we heard in the last book. I don't even know why Thomas Locke bothered to put Rick in there other then we needed a jealous guy pinning after the Heroine.
On the whole I would just stick to the first book, it was really good.
On the whole I would just stick to the first book, it was really good.
November 11, 2014
I was pleased with the way this series wrapped up, even if it's plot crumbled at the edges. The story itself made me think about much bigger ideas when I was 12 and even when I reread it, I found myself considering possibilities that could expand from the world created in the book. And who doesn't love a happy ending?
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October 4, 2010I absolutely HATE how this book ends!
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