She also pokes fun at academia and the way professors assign their own monographs in a manner reminiscenct of Douglas Adams’ humor (pg.
While she creates her own universe, she works in some fun pop cultural references, with Eva’s friend Pink metaphorically describing naiveté through a reference to “a sweet young moisture farmer with dreams of space travel” (pg. Further complicating matters are strange artifacts left behind by the Proarkhe, a mysterious extinct alien civilization that built the Gates which make galactic travel possible, but also left various other items behind that the various alien governments, mercenaries, and The Fridge all seek.Valdes’ story fully embraces the variety possible in space opera, with only a few human characters amid dozens of other featured species (and nearly a hundred named aliens). Along the way, Eva struggles with having to hide the truth of their jobs from her crew while avoiding an alien overlord who never learned to handle rejection and blames women for his own shortcomings. When Eva’s sister, Mari, is kidnapped by the galactic crime syndicate known as The Fridge, she must work for them to earn her sister’s freedom. In Chilling Effect, Valerie Valdes introduces Captain Eve Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra, who work to eke out a living in the galactic gray market. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down. To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she's built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family. The ship's hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.īut Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.Ĭaptain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits.
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