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Perseus Gate #1
The Gate at the Grey Wolf Star
In the Age of the Orion War...
After nine long years of searching the Inner Stars, Jessica and the crew of Sabrina have finally found the president's brother, Finaeus Tomlinson.
Now Finaeus has convinced them to take a shortcut through a jump gate--a new technology none of them have ever used before--located at a secret dwarf star mining operation.
But a mysterious group within the Transcend Space Force, known as the Grey Division, has orders to intercept and capture both Jessica and Finaeus.
Trapped at the bottom of a steep gravity well and surrounded by enemies, Jessica and the crew of Sabrina must find a way out of the Grey Wolf System and deliver the crucial information Finaeus carries back to New Canaan before even their allies are forced to turn against them.
After nine long years of searching the Inner Stars, Jessica and the crew of Sabrina have finally found the president's brother, Finaeus Tomlinson.
Now Finaeus has convinced them to take a shortcut through a jump gate--a new technology none of them have ever used before--located at a secret dwarf star mining operation.
But a mysterious group within the Transcend Space Force, known as the Grey Division, has orders to intercept and capture both Jessica and Finaeus.
Trapped at the bottom of a steep gravity well and surrounded by enemies, Jessica and the crew of Sabrina must find a way out of the Grey Wolf System and deliver the crucial information Finaeus carries back to New Canaan before even their allies are forced to turn against them.
129 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 16, 2017
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M.D. Cooper
187 books521 followersMalorie Cooper likes to think of herself as a dreamer and a wanderer, yet her feet are firmly grounded in reality.
A ‘maker’ from an early age, Malorie loves to craft things, from furniture, to cosplay costumes, to a well-spun tale, she can’t help but to create new things every day.
A rare extrovert writer, she loves to hang out with readers and people in general. If you meet her at a convention, she just might be rocking a catsuit, cosplaying one of her own characters, or maybe her latest favorite from Overwatch!
She shares her home with a brilliant young girl, her wonderful wife (who also writes), a cat that chirps at birds, a never-ending list of things she would like to build, and ideas…
A ‘maker’ from an early age, Malorie loves to craft things, from furniture, to cosplay costumes, to a well-spun tale, she can’t help but to create new things every day.
A rare extrovert writer, she loves to hang out with readers and people in general. If you meet her at a convention, she just might be rocking a catsuit, cosplaying one of her own characters, or maybe her latest favorite from Overwatch!
She shares her home with a brilliant young girl, her wonderful wife (who also writes), a cat that chirps at birds, a never-ending list of things she would like to build, and ideas…
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February 12, 2018
“The Gate at the Grey Wolf Star (Perseus Gate Book 1)” is the first of six novellas featuring adventures with the crew of Sabrina after former Captain Sera sends them off to find her uncle Finaeus Tomlinson.
The entire series of six stories takes place before “Orion Rising (The Orion War Book #3). Unfortunately, the stories aren’t really standalone adventures, much of which happens occurs in parallel to the two decades that pass during “New Canaan (The Orion War Book #2), and you need to read/listen to both “New Canaan” and the “Perseus Gate Series” before reading/listening to “Orion Rising”. Yeah. I know. Don’t get me started….again. (See my review for “Orion Rising” for the extended rant.
Because “The Gate at the Grey Wolf Star” is so short, but the author priced it as a full-length audiobook, I decided to use Voice Dream instead of paying a credit for the book. (It’s part of KU so there’s no marginal cost for reading the book on Kindle or Voice Dream). Didn’t work. After terrific narrations by Khristine Hvam and Cris Dukehart for the previous six Aeon14 audiobooks, none of the Voice Dream robo-voices were enjoyable. So….I bought the audiobook. Unfortunately, there are audio quality issues with this book. Squeaks and hissing etc.
In addition, Cooper uses a different narrator for this series: Alison Stinnett. She has a pleasant, exuberant voice, but it is very different than Hvam or Dukehart. The bottom line: juvenile.
Actually, juvenile pretty much sums up the story. The characters and the dialogue sound like they’re in high school. In a blog post, Cooper said he wanted to give additional story time to Jessica and Cheeky, along with Nance and many others besides the leads of the main novels, Sera and Tanis. But the story feels less like the adventures of Jessica and Cheeky in parallel with Sera and Tanis, and more like the adventures of Jessica and Cheeky long ago when they were virtually children. Oh they’re still sexed up, but more in a junior high school way, giggling over boobs. Look at the artwork for these six books compared with “The Intrepid Series” or “The Orion War” and you’ll see a huge difference. Instead of bad-ass women characters we see pinup girls. Perhaps Cooper wanted this series to be not just lighter, but a bit silly or even campy, but he went too far; it detracts from the terrific main novels I’ve read previously.
Well anyway, we learn more of supervillain Myrrdan (sigh…Cooper couldn’t put it in the main novels, just had to force us to buy a novella) and the mystery with Nance continues. The adventure story itself is entertaining, but once again the issue of language is ignored. You’d think people in Orion Space would have another language, or at least certainly other accents and idioms….but our folks fit in just fine. I wish he’d included an explanation of how they blend in - perhaps with the help of their embedded AIs.
Well, this book is probably a 2.5*, having been marked down for audio quality and being inappropriately silly. If you are enjoying the main series, as I am, you need to read the “Perseus Gate” series to keep up, but “The Gate at the Grey Wolf Star” was the least enjoyable of Cooper’s books so far. 2*
The entire series of six stories takes place before “Orion Rising (The Orion War Book #3). Unfortunately, the stories aren’t really standalone adventures, much of which happens occurs in parallel to the two decades that pass during “New Canaan (The Orion War Book #2), and you need to read/listen to both “New Canaan” and the “Perseus Gate Series” before reading/listening to “Orion Rising”. Yeah. I know. Don’t get me started….again. (See my review for “Orion Rising” for the extended rant.
Because “The Gate at the Grey Wolf Star” is so short, but the author priced it as a full-length audiobook, I decided to use Voice Dream instead of paying a credit for the book. (It’s part of KU so there’s no marginal cost for reading the book on Kindle or Voice Dream). Didn’t work. After terrific narrations by Khristine Hvam and Cris Dukehart for the previous six Aeon14 audiobooks, none of the Voice Dream robo-voices were enjoyable. So….I bought the audiobook. Unfortunately, there are audio quality issues with this book. Squeaks and hissing etc.
In addition, Cooper uses a different narrator for this series: Alison Stinnett. She has a pleasant, exuberant voice, but it is very different than Hvam or Dukehart. The bottom line: juvenile.
Actually, juvenile pretty much sums up the story. The characters and the dialogue sound like they’re in high school. In a blog post, Cooper said he wanted to give additional story time to Jessica and Cheeky, along with Nance and many others besides the leads of the main novels, Sera and Tanis. But the story feels less like the adventures of Jessica and Cheeky in parallel with Sera and Tanis, and more like the adventures of Jessica and Cheeky long ago when they were virtually children. Oh they’re still sexed up, but more in a junior high school way, giggling over boobs. Look at the artwork for these six books compared with “The Intrepid Series” or “The Orion War” and you’ll see a huge difference. Instead of bad-ass women characters we see pinup girls. Perhaps Cooper wanted this series to be not just lighter, but a bit silly or even campy, but he went too far; it detracts from the terrific main novels I’ve read previously.
Well anyway, we learn more of supervillain Myrrdan (sigh…Cooper couldn’t put it in the main novels, just had to force us to buy a novella) and the mystery with Nance continues. The adventure story itself is entertaining, but once again the issue of language is ignored. You’d think people in Orion Space would have another language, or at least certainly other accents and idioms….but our folks fit in just fine. I wish he’d included an explanation of how they blend in - perhaps with the help of their embedded AIs.
Well, this book is probably a 2.5*, having been marked down for audio quality and being inappropriately silly. If you are enjoying the main series, as I am, you need to read the “Perseus Gate” series to keep up, but “The Gate at the Grey Wolf Star” was the least enjoyable of Cooper’s books so far. 2*
August 27, 2017
Great back story
This book is a quick and easy read, it is the start of books about Sabrina and her crew and their journey to New Canaan. As expected things don't go well, but we build more information on the problems that they face.
This book is a quick and easy read, it is the start of books about Sabrina and her crew and their journey to New Canaan. As expected things don't go well, but we build more information on the problems that they face.
May 13, 2023
Help me read more books
Short but interesting story. There's a lot to unpack in this story, but I doubt anyone will get the whole story without reading more in the series. This is the first I've read in this series, so a lot of this story was kind of missing background material, since we don't know where the crew came from, why they were there, and what happened to get them into the fix they were in. That's a bit more dangling storylines than I typically like to have in a short story, and it doesn't look like reading the next one in the series is going to help with that, so . I'm likely to read more, but I'd really like to find out where this all started, so probably need to read other series books to get the gist of the situation.
In short, this probably isn't the place to start if you're new to this author/universe.
Short but interesting story. There's a lot to unpack in this story, but I doubt anyone will get the whole story without reading more in the series. This is the first I've read in this series, so a lot of this story was kind of missing background material, since we don't know where the crew came from, why they were there, and what happened to get them into the fix they were in. That's a bit more dangling storylines than I typically like to have in a short story, and it doesn't look like reading the next one in the series is going to help with that, so . I'm likely to read more, but I'd really like to find out where this all started, so probably need to read other series books to get the gist of the situation.
In short, this probably isn't the place to start if you're new to this author/universe.
January 6, 2018
I'm concerned that this book should not be a stand alone, for the ending is abrupt. I've started the next book and it picks up right away from where the other ended. They should have been one book. This one is a little over 35,000 words, making it fall into the lower part of a novella.
First, while the characters are flushed out, the use of swearing is harsh to the ears when listening to this audio book. I'm taken aback and wondering what the author was thinking when they made everyone use such language.
Second, it starts abruptly and, even though it is a new series, you are a little lost with some of the characters to the point you almost put it down.
Probably won't go past the second book even if another one is written, I'm not feeling attached to the characters.
First, while the characters are flushed out, the use of swearing is harsh to the ears when listening to this audio book. I'm taken aback and wondering what the author was thinking when they made everyone use such language.
Second, it starts abruptly and, even though it is a new series, you are a little lost with some of the characters to the point you almost put it down.
Probably won't go past the second book even if another one is written, I'm not feeling attached to the characters.
January 14, 2018
Author M.D. Cooper brings us the opening chapter of the Perseus Gate series with the Gate at the Grey Wolf Star. We meet the crew of Sabrina (A starship with a mind of her own) and her crew as they are attempting to enter the Gray Wolf system in order to take their passenger to the colony New Canaan where he will turn their government around. But at the station at the center of the system an Admiral Krissy who is related to Sabrina's passenger is ordered to board the freighter and take him but Captain Cargo and his crew will not let that happen. This is a great fast read or quick read and I highly recommend it to everyone who likes fast passed sci-fi, I am looking forward to reading the rest of this first season.
January 19, 2018
Fun little sci-fi novella. I enjoyed it, as it was a quick read. The cover art is almost deceptive, even though it does picture a main character...and the story is definitely better than the picture might lead you to believe.
Don't think you'll be too interested in it if you haven't read any of Cooper's Aeon 14 series, as the characters, context, plot and technological situation are all drawn from that universe and there are little to none explainers or backstory given. That said, I enjoyed it and I'm very curious where this little Perseus Gate series is going.
Don't think you'll be too interested in it if you haven't read any of Cooper's Aeon 14 series, as the characters, context, plot and technological situation are all drawn from that universe and there are little to none explainers or backstory given. That said, I enjoyed it and I'm very curious where this little Perseus Gate series is going.
April 7, 2018
Was a good move I think to introduce episodic content, feels in the vein of Star Trek. For this opening story, is a good one, maintains a good degree of tension throughout with a couple of twists in the mix to surprise you as well. Always good to read more around Jess, Cheeky and Cargo, and a good introduction to Finneus as well :)
August 12, 2018
Intrepid sails?
I have pretty much lost interest in the Intrepid. I don't know why but I dropped this book very early in. I just dropped a zombie book and maybe this was too "zombies return" or something.
I'm sure that it's worth more than one star, if you're into the "Intrepid" story. I just put up a rating that warns me to avoid this book.
I have pretty much lost interest in the Intrepid. I don't know why but I dropped this book very early in. I just dropped a zombie book and maybe this was too "zombies return" or something.
I'm sure that it's worth more than one star, if you're into the "Intrepid" story. I just put up a rating that warns me to avoid this book.
July 23, 2017
Awesome series!
August 31, 2017
Good read, looking fwd to tje next installment.
Good read, looking fwd to tje next installment. I realize they make it, but the story is keeping me pn the edge.
Good read, looking fwd to tje next installment. I realize they make it, but the story is keeping me pn the edge.
September 29, 2017
Loved this story. Love the characters. Love the relationships, the action, and the thrills. Bravo!
October 15, 2017
Good adventure
Lots of action and almost a complete story. I liked it a lot and recommending it. Not sure what is up so I'm getting the next book in the series.
Lots of action and almost a complete story. I liked it a lot and recommending it. Not sure what is up so I'm getting the next book in the series.
October 29, 2017
Quick and fun ride, and know the end result kinda makes it hard to read on. But, I must.
April 21, 2018
The story continues...
The personalities of each character, the situations they get into. This has been an amazing series so far. Looking forward to more...
The personalities of each character, the situations they get into. This has been an amazing series so far. Looking forward to more...
May 24, 2018
Well thought out book with intriguing, developed characters. M.D. Cooper is a great story teller and he has me hooked. I keep coming back for more of his stories.
March 20, 2019
Kinda meh
August 13, 2020
I'm a few months behind on posting my books
great read
great read
August 27, 2020
I read the first three novelettes of this sub-series, and I was not impressed. Not going to read the last three, just moving on to the main series.
October 21, 2020
Link with Orion war series
A good book worth reading after book 1 and 2 of the Orion war series now to read book 3.
A good book worth reading after book 1 and 2 of the Orion war series now to read book 3.
January 10, 2018
Sometimes you just hope the book is as good as its front picture. Surely was true this time!
March 26, 2018
I switch to something else (Lake Silence) and thought about whether I wanted to finish this book or not. I decided I didn't. I really wasn't enjoying it. And I was a bit frustrated that I had to take this detour from the main Orion Wars books before I could read Orion Rising. I think I'm going to read Orion Rising next and just accept that there will be a few things I missed from this series.
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