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Conner Gepp and the Harrow Project
Stranded!
Conner has been stowing away for years, hopping from spaceport to spaceport, but he’s never been caught. Until now. You’d think the crew would be happy he saved the ship from certain doom, but they dropped him on Providence, a dusty, backwater rock in the middle of nowhere. With a busted radio and no ship due for the better part of a year, they might as well have tossed him out the airlock.
Now he’s a stranger in town with nowhere to hide and he has never been great at making friends. The Mayor gives him a job, Miss Francine rents him a room, and Mudflap and Sarah show him the ropes. Unfortunately, Conner has a distinct knack for ticking people off. and it doesn’t take long for him to open his mouth and ruin it all.
On his own with only his trusty blasters and a clue to the location of a mysterious Project Harrow, Conner sets out to find it—somewhere out in the badlands—and things go from bad to worse. For the first time in his life, Conner has found something he can’t do alone.
Providence has more ways to kill a man than the mayor has mining claims. It will take the help of friends Conner didn’t know he had, to get him through. Conner’s life has been turned upside down. Now, if he can just land on his feet . . .
Conner has been stowing away for years, hopping from spaceport to spaceport, but he’s never been caught. Until now. You’d think the crew would be happy he saved the ship from certain doom, but they dropped him on Providence, a dusty, backwater rock in the middle of nowhere. With a busted radio and no ship due for the better part of a year, they might as well have tossed him out the airlock.
Now he’s a stranger in town with nowhere to hide and he has never been great at making friends. The Mayor gives him a job, Miss Francine rents him a room, and Mudflap and Sarah show him the ropes. Unfortunately, Conner has a distinct knack for ticking people off. and it doesn’t take long for him to open his mouth and ruin it all.
On his own with only his trusty blasters and a clue to the location of a mysterious Project Harrow, Conner sets out to find it—somewhere out in the badlands—and things go from bad to worse. For the first time in his life, Conner has found something he can’t do alone.
Providence has more ways to kill a man than the mayor has mining claims. It will take the help of friends Conner didn’t know he had, to get him through. Conner’s life has been turned upside down. Now, if he can just land on his feet . . .
267 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 13, 2019
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September 6, 2019Synopsis: After Conner Gepp is caught stowing away on a spaceship he is dropped on an abysmal planet in the middle of nowhere. To earn passage off the planet Conner agrees to join a crew mining for pre-war technology. What Conner finds will change everything.
My Rating:
I am unable to rate this book because I know the author and have too much bias to give an accurate rating.
What I loved:
I absolutely loved the characters! They were funny and complex and deep.
Conner is a loner but throughout the book he befriends a variety of hilarious misfit characters who I adored. He also meets a girl who likes him, flaws and all. Also, there are many strong women characters in this book which I appreciated.
As someone who doesn't read much science fiction I really appreciated that the world wasn't so complex I couldn't understand it nor was the weapon descriptions and tech descriptions overwhelming. I was able to easily navigate this book and understand what was going on. That is not something I can say about every science fiction book.
I enjoyed the setting of this book. The planet Conner is dropped on has a wild west feeling to it.
What didn't work for me:
As I said above I really enjoyed the setting however I would have really loved more information about the setting and the world to be introduced sooner. The world information is handed to us slowly and at times I felt like I would have benefited from more sooner. Particularly the history relating to why the old tech was lost and information about the war that caused it to be buried.
My only other real issue is that Conner seems borderline immortal. Conner is put through so many things and almost dies but, like action heroes of old, can pretty much be blown up in one chapter and fine in the next. In fairness this is a science fiction book and so maybe the medicine and the tech are just super awesome. I just couldn't feel like Conner was ever in danger because he was basically almost dead several times in the book and miraculously healed. The boy has more lives than a cat.
My Rating:
I am unable to rate this book because I know the author and have too much bias to give an accurate rating.
What I loved:
I absolutely loved the characters! They were funny and complex and deep.
Conner is a loner but throughout the book he befriends a variety of hilarious misfit characters who I adored. He also meets a girl who likes him, flaws and all. Also, there are many strong women characters in this book which I appreciated.
As someone who doesn't read much science fiction I really appreciated that the world wasn't so complex I couldn't understand it nor was the weapon descriptions and tech descriptions overwhelming. I was able to easily navigate this book and understand what was going on. That is not something I can say about every science fiction book.
I enjoyed the setting of this book. The planet Conner is dropped on has a wild west feeling to it.
What didn't work for me:
As I said above I really enjoyed the setting however I would have really loved more information about the setting and the world to be introduced sooner. The world information is handed to us slowly and at times I felt like I would have benefited from more sooner. Particularly the history relating to why the old tech was lost and information about the war that caused it to be buried.
My only other real issue is that Conner seems borderline immortal. Conner is put through so many things and almost dies but, like action heroes of old, can pretty much be blown up in one chapter and fine in the next. In fairness this is a science fiction book and so maybe the medicine and the tech are just super awesome. I just couldn't feel like Conner was ever in danger because he was basically almost dead several times in the book and miraculously healed. The boy has more lives than a cat.
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