[Book Review] In Ashes Born (A Seeker's Tale From The Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper Book 1)

I read a lot. Like, a lot. I definitely get my money's worth out of Amazon's Kindle Unlimited. So I thought it would be fun to start reviewing the books I read. Mostly sci-fi/fantasy genre fiction, so don't be disappointed if you don't find abstruse prose in the demesne of my literary sights. See how annoying that is?

These reviews are not about the plot of the story. I guess they are meta-reviews about whether the book is worth reading or not. It's more about the experience of reading the book rather than the story itself.

OK, on to the review.

In Ashes Born Amazon Link

The dust jacket:

An old friend. A new course.
A deadly ship with a secret cargo.

Ishmael Wang returns to Port Newmar but ghosts from his past have followed him. His old shipmate, Phillip Carstairs, offers him the opportunity to track down the man who killed his lover. The catch? He must take command of the Chernyakova, a ship that still stinks of death and haunts Ishmael’s nightmares. Together, Phillip and Ismael begin a journey into unknown reaches of the Deep Dark to bring back the man who killed Greta.

And we're back with the next installment of Ishmael's journey.

Ishmael has reached the pinnacle of his professional career and lost everything that matters in the process. Now he's left with an existential crisis of, "Now what?"

So there is a bit of introspection and a bit of getting kicked out of his funk. His old friend Pip is there to drag him on a new adventure.

All in all it's a solid, quick read as it doesn't get too bogged down in the details.

Overall rating: I liked it.