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Injured agent Lièrén Sòng should want to return to interrogating criminals for his covert unit for the Citizen Protection Service, but being sidelined gains new appeal when he makes friends with a woman and her son. Imara Sesay, road crew chief and part-time bartender, breaks her ironclad rule never to get close to customers when she asks Lièrén to teach her son how to control his growing telepathic talents. Can Lièrén stay alive long enough to save Imara and her prodigy son from the agency that wants them?
Covert agent Lièrén Sòng is recovering from a near-fatal crash. He should want nothing more than to get back to using his talents to interrogate criminals for the Citizen Protection Service, but he's making unexpected new friends with a woman and her son. Imara Sesay, road-crew chief and part-time bartender, breaks her ironclad rule never to get close to customers when she asks Lièrén to teach her son how to control his growing minder talents.
Unexpected deaths in his covert unit make Lièrén suspect he isn't a lucky survivor, he's a loose end. He should pull away from Imara and Derrit to keep them safe, but when the local CPS Testing Center is entirely too interested in Derrit's talents, Lièrén must make an impossible choice. Can he stay alive long enough to save Imara and her prodigy son?
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Includes a free sample of Overload Flux. Minder Rising is the second of the new Central Galactic Concordance series. They can be read in any order, though Minder Rising takes place after the events in Overload Flux.
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The Central Galactic Concordance series:
•-•-• Overload Flux (Book 1)
•-•-• Minder Rising (Book 2)
•-•-• Zero Flux (Novella 2.5)
•-•-• Pico's Crush (Book 3)
- Sales Rank: #304752 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-26
- Released on: 2015-05-26
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
***** 5 stars: "I loved the diverse characters, the intrigue and action, and the lovely relationships that build all through the story." -- Barbara Elness
***** 5 stars: "Like Overload Flux, this romance/adventure is pleasingly written and carries you straight through an action-filled plot to a surprising but satisfying end." -- AH
***** 5 stars: "This book features lots of action, believable character development, and just enough romance to intrigue without distracting from the rest of the story.... Definitely hooked for the series." -- Jill B.
***** 5 stars: "She tells a great story and supports it with likeable, believable characters and events..." -- Roger
From the Author
Minder Rising is the second in a new science fiction-action-romance series, the Central Galactic Concordance. Minder Rising takes place after the events of Overload Flux, but you don't have to have read Overload Flux to enjoy it, though I hope you will.
A millenium from now, humans have expanded civilization to more than 500 planets in the galaxy, thanks to faster-than-light space travel, interstellar communications, and sophisticated terraforming capabilities. The Central Galactic Concordance government maintains interstellar safety and commerce with the Concordance Command military and the Citizen Protection Service elite forces. The CPS also has another important function: testing, registering, and making use of minders, humans with talents in telepathy, telepathy. and patterns.
Peace and stability have reigned for two hundred years, but underneath, trouble is brewing. Minders with mid- and high-level talents usually find their way into CPS service, whether they want to or not. Jumpers, the special forces personnel with added hardware and body reinforcements, often suffer from debilitating waster's disease once they retire from service. The CPS has deeper, darker programs and powerful reasons to keep them secret. Minders, once a misunderstood minority, are now common in the human population, and want respect and freedom. The CPS, once the savior of civilization, has been using increasingly draconian measures to maintain control. Something has to give, and it won't be pretty.
From the Inside Flap
Length: Novel (74,500 words)
ISBN: 978-0983174127
Cover art by Stephen Bryant at SRB Productions
Editing by Shelley Holloway at Holloway House
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Original, fully-realized characters in spaaaaace.
By Lee K
CPS agent Lièrén Sòng is recovering from a he’s-got-lots-of-new-vat-grown-internal-organs injury, doing clerical work by day and drinking soda at night at the Quark and Quasar pub. The bartender, Imara Sesay, works two jobs to help support her and her son Derrit, and the two of them have become friends during his convalescence. After an unpleasant bar incident, Imara asks Lièrén to help her son control his minder talents before his government aptitude test, and Lièrén agrees. Meanwhile, members of Lièrén’s team are dying suspiciously. Imara and Lièrén get closer while he uncovers damning information about the local CPS testing program and his own team. Can he both stay alive and help her keep her son safe? Is there any future for a road crew chief and man subject to military deployment?
Lièrén is not a conventional hero. He’s deferential without any irony, polite and honorable. It’s so good to see East Asian males as a desirable subject. He’s running Confucian firmware on his brain, too: he respects his elders for being such, wouldn’t think to break the rules as anything but a late resort, and values his extended family greatly. He doesn’t think of himself as a good person due to the things he’s done in CPS service, but he’s principled and disciplined.
Imara isn’t a conventional heroine. She may work two jobs and be a widow supporting a kid, but she’s not downtrodden or victimized. When she’s in her element on the road or at the bar, she’s competent. When scary things happen, she’s scared, but thinks quickly to deal with it. Imara feels like a complete character, her actions feel believable. She's world-wiser than Lièrén since she's older and not the semi-sheltered agent used to living in hotels and ships, but they fit together well. Their romance is a slow burn, with both of them mindful of the obstacles to their togetherness. The rest of the story is also paced that way, starting sedately and growing progressively faster.
The secondary characters are memorable too. Derrit, Lièrén’s family, Imara’s deceased husband, the other bartender, Imara’s road crew, and the CPS officers all have their own agendas and drive the action. Some of them are good people who did harmful things, and some are morally dark gray but try to do some good deeds. Everybody’s more than plausible. Even the organizations are nuanced, there are good and bad people in the bureaucracies. No Evil Empire here. The truth is that there are lots of players in problematic organizations, most well-meaning and trying to do their best jobs, some malicious, and some who are not quite competent.
I had to read the last few chapters more than once to check whether I’d missed anything. Did Lièrén ever tell Imara what was up with his job and his team dying? He is keeping secrets from her, but I imagine she’d ask, “so what was with those people trying to mess you up?” I am curious as to how he’d answer. Because of the time lapse some developments seem a bit sudden. Maybe they could have felt a bit less so if I’d known the extent of the contact Imara and Lièrén had during their separation.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Not nearly as good as her first book!
By Barry Owens
I cannot finish this book. It is just not holding my interest at all. Carol's first book, Overload Flux, was amazing. I couldn't put it down. This book is just the opposite. I can't seem to get through more than a few pages at a time before I get bored and move on to something else. I have been working on this book for weeks,and I am only 47% through it. I hope it's just me. It is rare that I DNF a book, but I have two kindles with literally hundreds of books between them left to read. I don't have time to keep muddling through books that don't hold my attention.
The characters are well developed. I have no complaints along that front. My problem is that almost halfway through the book nothing has happened to keep me turning the pages. There is no feeling of "I have to know what happens on the next page." Maybe after I have read some of the hundreds of books I have on my Kindle I will return to it and see if I can finish it, but as of right now it is nowhere on my list of priorities.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
First-class Integration of Genres
By Judith Rook
A science fiction romance novel such as Carol Van Natta’s Minder Rising: Central Galactic Concordance Book 2 has to do two things. It has to develop characters which can reveal the magnetism of inter-personal relationships and it has to invent a world-scale setting in which that magnetism can take place. More than in any other romance sub-genre, in a science fiction romance the setting takes a central place, and if there is anything which is not clear about the setting, the reader’s interest can become distracted from the developing relationship.
In this novel the Central Galactic Concordance is an interplanetary system of governance, regulating over five hundred planets and providing an impersonal power which controls the lives of all the inhabitants of those worlds. It is the third central character in the storyline, taking the role of the inimical authority, bringing into the narrative all that is threatening and destructive to affection and love.
The first flowering of attraction between the protagonists is necessarily slow because for both of the main characters other factors have become dominant. Special security agent Lièrén Sòng is attempting to survive in a social system which, he slowly realises, has betrayed him completely, and Imara Sesay struggles to protect her gifted young son, Derrit, from the predatory clutches of the same system. All three characters are “minders” that is, they all possess distinctive mental powers to a greater or lesser degree. In the case of Sòng the powers are known and are used in support of the system and in the case of the mother and son they unfold as the action progresses.
This is a recipe for success, both in the science fiction genre and equally in the romance genre, and to a very large extent Van Natta develops all the potential of her plot. She is a stylish and accomplished author who writes with confidence and authority, and develops the action at a pace which perfectly suits the storyline, except perhaps at the outset of the book. At the beginning of the first chapter the reader is introduced to a great deal of world references and nomenclature which are not clearly explained and which are sometimes confusing in their effect, as is the great amount of background detail which, while necessary, could perhaps have been spread more evenly across the opening pages.
A highly packed introduction courts the danger of not fixing the reader’s attention; however, by the end of the first chapter the action is unfolding smoothly, the conflict is becoming apparent and the reader’s interest and anticipation are engaged.
It is impossible to have a truly successful romance story without convincing characters. If an author cannot create believable figures to support the storyline then they ought not to take on the challenges of this particularly demanding genre. More than in any other genre the characters must be not only self-aware but also intensely aware of each other. Although they are individuals, the magnet of mutual attraction draws them together and the author has to be able to depict that essential aspect of a romance story with persuasive clarity.
Van Natta’s characters are very strong and quickly take on the solid yet complex identities that are needed to support not only the romance theme but also to make the reader believe completely in the world where the storyline is played out. Sòng’s growing realisation of his isolation within the system, a realisation which turns him from cooperation to opposition, is particularly well handled. Imara’s more pragmatic determination not to allow the system to overcome her life identifies her as the perfect partner to accompany Sòng into the future. Even the secondary characters are well-shaped, particularly the flamboyant and exhibitionist Rayle who carries his own line of interest through the full course of the action.
In Minder Rising Carol Van Natta has brought together two genres, giving each a similar weighting in the development of the plot. The book is not science fiction with a romantic interest nor is it a romance incidentally placed in a different world. It is a highly satisfactory and successful integration of the two, resulting in an enjoyable story very well told against a setting which is completely believable.
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