Shadow Wall

Taidor #2

by Lucy Andrews

Kalen Trinneer is trapped in a conflict that threatens the lives of everyone on the planet Taidor. To avoid suspicion, he must assist the U-Zone army and deny his true loyalties. Learning of a terrible threat to the Ea-Zone, Kalen is determined to escape so that he can alert them to the danger. His plans are thwarted when he is forced to marry a woman that he doesn’t love. Torn between his commitments in the U-Zone and his loyalty to the Ea-Zone, Kalen has to find a way to warn the Ea-Zone before everything he values is destroyed.

367 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 7, 2019

About the author

After spending most of her professional life working in London, Lucy moved to the south coast of England where she spends her free time enjoying the beach and walking in the beautiful countryside. She has a passion for history as well as science fiction.

Reviews

[Geoff Nelder · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading Lucy Andrew’s CRATER’S EDGE, so imagine the thrill when I knew a sequel was ready for me to lap up. Kalen has a tricky mission: to infiltrate the Unity enemy side, aid their fight to gain trust yet rescue his own side. There’s plenty of page-turning action here and interesting science fiction. Such as the mysterious blue crystal they call Uveid, which is alien. The aliens are extinct, right? Probably and yet their influence could be felt through the stones. I love tunnels and my own SUPPOSE WE’s strange planet has them, not like these in Shadow Wall. I love too the writing style. In spite of the fast action and quick-thinking characters we are treated to such lyricism as: ‘The open window glowed seductively and he felt an overwhelming urge to give in to it, to let his consciousness surrender and be pulled to the other side. His surroundings faded away into a blur and instead of the half-finished city streets, he saw the glimmer of golden light that got brighter until it blotted out everything else.’
The ending is as unexpected as it is intriguing.