Recs for colony or homsteading books

[Celestine]

Here are two more books with strong colonization themes.

. This book had humans living in an outlying, heavily established system that believed Earth was a myth. Well, not everybody. How about a reverse colonization theme?

. Captain Kyntura, the heroine of this book, leads a very young band of elite soldiers. In the face of annihilation by an invading species, "prepper" types have left Earth and are now traveling as refugees through a hostile system. Humans have come to learn they have to fight for a new home before they are all extinct.

I've reviewed both books if you are interested.

[namericanwordcat]

Celestine wrote: "Here are two more books with strong colonization themes.

. This book had humans living in an outlying, heavily established system that believed Earth was a myt..."

Thanks!

[namericanwordcat]

While not a romance I read and loved every moment

[Carolyn F.]

I can't find
Cathryn Cade's Frontera series
The Lawman Takes a Bride by Alvania Scarborough

[Celestine]

Scarborough book is under the title The Bounty Hunter Takes a Bride on Amazon.

Remnant Population is $9.99 for a 336 page ebook. That's pretty steep for a new-to-me author.

[Jen]

Carolyn F. wrote: "I can't find
Cathryn Cade's Frontera series

Carolyn, there are available on Amazon - listed as the Lodestar series.

[KJ]

Actually, Cathryn Cade has 3 interconnected series: Orion, Lodestar, and Frontiera. Frontiera is only 2 books, Heart of Stone and Heart of Steel. I enjoyed all of these books, but I only mentioned Frontiera because of the colonization theme. If you read all of these, I'd read the Orion series first, then Lodestar, then Frontiera, but that's my preference, as Frontiera seems to be chronologically in the middle of the Lodestar series.

[Jen]

KJ, Oh you are right. My bad! Thanks for the clarification.
I've read the first of Frontera and loved it.
The first two of Lodestar, and loved them.
The first two of Orion and like them.

[Celestine]

Nicola Claire has written two SFR/Space Opera books with a colonization theme. They take place on a fleet leaving Earth. Books one and two just came out at the end of January 2018.

[L J]

Jayne Castle Ghost Hunters books and her St. Helen's series. Robin D. Owens Celta's Heartmates series. If there doesn't have to be romance featured in every book then Anne McCaffrey Doona series. Andre Norton Beast Master series but there is no romance until continuation books. I've read a lot of colony books over the years but the romance tends to be a minor sub plot in the older ones.

[Celestine]

Thanks LJ. I will look those up.

[Laz]

McCaffery's Freedom series sort of qualifies.

[Renn]

The Ninth Orb
A Kaitlyn O'Connor reverse harem colonisation of an alien world, one of the first sci-fi stories I ever read and still a favourite.

Mercy - Trade - Thrall
Catherine Miller's Deridia series follows characters from a stranded/failed colony, making a home is a big theme for all of them.

[Laz]

Ninth Orb was great.

I put the first of the Deridia on my TBR.

[Celestine]

I enjoyed this book, The Colony, by Laurel Richards. Lots of action, suspense and mystery involved, too. I reviewed the book also.

[Veronica]

Oh I LOVED that one (everything except the way the hero called her 'honey'. Here's what I said in a review on the old Heroes & Heartbreakers: "...the way the hero kept calling the heroine – a paleontologist with a futuristic PhD - “honey”. Any dude who isn’t my grandfather or my significant other calls me honey three times in the first few moments after he’s met me and he will be in serious trouble, you know? ... Dr. Elisa Everett apparently didn’t share my aversion because she never once objects and the hero just keeps calling her that, but then space soldier Alexander Valerian was pretty hunky and had a big blaster. Still, I can’t see Corporal Hicks calling Ripley in the “Aliens” movie franchise ‘honey’, can you?") The book reminded me of both "Aliens" and "Jurassic Park." It was such a well done book!

[Celestine]

I felt Valerian was trying to coax her out, so the honey bit didn’t bother me too much at first. I gave your blog a shout out in my review!

[Veronica]

Thanks for the mention of the blog! Always much appreciated :) Well, fair point you make that maybe he was trying to come across to her as less threatening when they first met her. I think that one thing just pushed a button for me LOL. I wish the author had written more in the vein of COLONY. I have her next book, Fate's Mission, but have to admit I haven't read it yet. (In two years! The towering TBR pile...)

[L J]

I don't think I even noticed the honey.
I wonder if how the term "honey" term is used is regional? I remember it being used a lot by some family members and not at all by others. The ones that used it a lot used it to everyone. Females and males used it to both sexes, often when asking someone to do something. It seemed to be a substitute for "please." It was not often used to the opposite sex by younger person to older. That was ma'am and sir time.
Someone I know objects when she is addressed as honey by anyone but her husband. She particularly objected when a waitress used it. She viewed it as a sexual come on while I didn't notice even though the waitress often addressed patrons that way.
I sometimes react badly to term "baby" being used but other times it doesn't bother me. It all depends on characters and context.

[Virginia]

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