Friday, April 29, 2011

Extra-Planetary Intrigue

Many books have been written over the past sixty years using such themes as corporations being in charge of extra-terran colonies. Look at the movie Avatar for proof on that view. Many of them have used as a vehicle for the story the militarization of those corporations in order to place each company at the top of the list for control over said planet. Once more, Avatar comes to mind. In the indie book Vallar, by Cindy Borgne, however, this often-used vehicle is set slightly differently in that those psuedo-military forces controlling the planet, in this case Mars, are at war with one another in their attempt to either establish control over all the other companies vying for the rights to control Mars or work alongside one another peacefully. Mars Corp is one such company and it has developed the use of psychics in its struggle to learn what the competition is up to and how best to beat them.

Ian Connors is one of these psychics and at only sixteen years old has been in the "care" of Mars Corp his entire life, developing his abilities so the company that serves as his "parent" can destroy everyone else. Only problem is that eventually Ian sees what is going on - in more ways than one - and sets about using his psychic abilities toward freeing himself from his imposed slavery. Problems arise - as they usually do in such cases - and Ian falls out of favor with the commander of the Mars Corp forces who is using the youth's abilities for personal gain.

In this fast-paced novel of extra-planetary intrigue and adventure we are given a glimpse of how governments even now manipulate their citizens for their own selfish ends. But not without an interesting storyline being developed. Most likely this story will continue on with successive books to follow. I haven't looked to see if any have already been written, but I would be surprised if they weren't at least in the works of this author, Cindy Borgne, who has established herself as a competent new indie author worth reading and watching for further development.

Vallar, by Cindy Borgne, a great new novel of action, adventure, suspense and romance found at Smashwords.com.

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1 comment:

  1. Great review Jake. Makes me want to read this book and I think I will. Always need something new to read.

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