Queen & commander

259 pages

English language

Published Dec. 25, 2013 by [publisher not identified].

ISBN:: 978-0-9886468-5-8
OCLC Number:: 902745650

(1 review)

On a world where high school test scores determine your future, six students rebel. They'll outrun society as fast as their questionably obtained spaceship will take them. RHIANNON doesn't technically cheat the Test. She's smarter than the computers that administer it, and she uses that to her advantage. She emerges from Test Day with the most prestigious future career possible: Hive Queen. GWYN & VICTOR are madly in love, but their Test results will tear them apart. Good thing Rhiannon is Gwyn's best friend. Rhiannon can fix this. Queens can do anything. GAVIN is the wild card. Raised off-planet, he can't wait to leave again ... and he's heard of an empty ship in orbit. The Ceridwen's Cauldron. Both LUCIANO and ALAN fit in the system. They don't need to leave. Only their devotion to Rhiannon spurs them to join the Cauldron's crew. Spaceships. Blackmail. Anywhere but here.

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Daryl Ducharme reviewed Queen & commander by Janine A. Southard (Book one of the hive queen saga)

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4 stars

I got this book because I had a chance to interview the author on my podcast. Unfortunately, I put it off for a long time because I had so many non-fiction books in my queue. Well, I still have non-fiction books in my queue but I read this and I'm glad I did.

This book imagines a future where it has been found that the way of the bee is what works best for space travel. There are Queens and devoted who serve with them on their ships. This book isn't really about the sci-fi though. It's about this Queen, her hive and the beginning of their adventure. Relationships make a hive and we find out how some started, how some evolve and how some are a bit delusional. After we get a clear view of our hero crew we begin to see the bigger picture of the saga. By …

I got this book because I had a chance to interview the author on my podcast. Unfortunately, I put it off for a long time because I had so many non-fiction books in my queue. Well, I still have non-fiction books in my queue but I read this and I'm glad I did.

This book imagines a future where it has been found that the way of the bee is what works best for space travel. There are Queens and devoted who serve with them on their ships. This book isn't really about the sci-fi though. It's about this Queen, her hive and the beginning of their adventure. Relationships make a hive and we find out how some started, how some evolve and how some are a bit delusional. After we get a clear view of our hero crew we begin to see the bigger picture of the saga. By the end of this you'll want to read the next so that you can see what happens as they explore the intrigue that is happening in their universe.