The Paxist Prequel to the Star Smuggler Series
Sci-fi, Romance
TS Snow
October 25, 2021
Kindle
450
Amazon
The Prequel to the Star Smuggler series…
Allan McAllister was a Paxist, a believer in peace, forced by the United Terran Federation into military service to punish his treasonous kinsman.
When his ship is destroyed in Earth’s first war with a non-human species, he finds himself a prisoner of war on the enemy’s home world.
N’Sagar sh’en Singh was the daughter of a Felidan pride chief, but there’s no hatred in her heart for the lone Terran marooned on her planet.
Thrown together by a war neither wants, then torn from each other by the Federation’s continued desire for revenge, their love will become a tragedy and a triumph as a man sworn to walk the road of Peace is made to follow the dictates of War and suffer the consequences.
With touches of Enemy Mine and The Tomorrow War, set against the background of an interplanetary conflict, this is Sinbad’s parents’ story.
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild
This was originally The Story of a Peace-Loving Man, book one of the Adventures of Sinbad, revised, rewritten, reedited with additional content but still a story that evokes all your emotions.
Allan McAllister is a Paxist, a believer in peace but unfortunately when his uncle became the most wanted by the Federation because of his belief that peace not war was the way to go it left Allan as the one to pay for his crimes.
Allan becomes a draftee in the Federation’s army and he pays daily because of his uncle. Beatings, ridicule are a constant in Allan’s life and as a believer in peace he is being trained to kill. When the ship Allan is on is destroyed, he manages to escape in a pod, a pod that lands in Felida the enemy planet.
Very little is known about the Felidans and Allan is shocked when he comes face to face with one, a woman whose appearance is that of a cat. N’Sagar Sh’en Singh is not afraid of Allan and helps him hide and keeps him fed and in time she teaches him her language and they fall in love.
He is also surprised to discover that once again the Federation lied about who started the war and why. In spite of N’Sagar’s determination to keep Allan safe he is discovered and becomes a prisoner of war. Separated from the woman he loves he finds himself once again the butt of jokes and physical attacks. Now a prisoner separated from the woman he loves the man who believes in peace finds his life once again in the hands of other’s who do not have his best interests in mind.
As difficult as the situation Allan is in it could get worse and if his life has shown him anything it is if it could get worse chances are it will. I won’t go into detail about what happens to Allan and N’Sagar, whether they have a chance at a HEA but I will say is that a man who believes in peace finds very little of it in his life. There is also the reality that if the Federation wins the war Allan’s life will go from bad to worse.
I loved Allan and I loved this book but I needed time when it was over to get my emotions straightened out because this book evoked so many.