#Dr richard abriss full#

From Abriss Centre’s Unity all the way to the Casithen, there are a lot of worlds, places, concepts, ideas and technology to unleash. Space Opera universes are complicated enough, but when you have worlds and universes cheek by jowl, it amps up what you need to deliver to the reader. This is all in a matrix of, as mentioned before, dunk in the deep end of the pool of worldbuilding. In other words, when it comes to character, doing a time jump of 10 years, introducing a major new relationship and then putting both characters through the wringer is a difficult task, and Hansen pulls it off. Is an argument that a man cannot stay alone, forever, and thrive. Caiden NEEDS his community, and this novel.

I especially loved, though, when he reunites with his found family from the first book. I felt a lot for Caiden throughout this novel, he goes through a *lot*.even as the fate of the Multiverse is partly on his shoulders. In a parallel vein, Hansen has Caiden have to be re-established as a 10 year older version of himself, then throw him onto the pyre of the revelation of his sister’s survival, work that relationship, work the events both wind up going through, and make his twisted and complicated and often agonizing character arc work and make sense.

Both are high wire acts.Leta’s personality and nature not only have to be established within the pages, affirmed, and then have to go through the wringer and make her character arc plausible. Hansen’s high octane plot, which I will speak on more in a moment, really puts the accelerator to what the siblings (although we learn that term is not quite completely accurate) must go through as they need to come to terms with each other and with the greater powers above them. By this point, though, you have been dunked into the deep end.Ĭontinuing on the theme of character, Caiden and Leta both go through some rapid growth, change and tests of their mettle, skill, and the drive of their beliefs.

#Dr richard abriss full#

Although Leta was teased at the end of Nophek Gloss, having her as a full fledged character, in many ways more of a pawn than Caiden feels he is, she provides a good parallel perspective to events, especially once she intersects with her brother. If the first book was an explosion of ideas and worldbuilding, this second novel ups the game right from the start, introducing Leta, her compatriots and their technology (especially the “remote controlled” Proxies) for the reader to discover and comprehend. This continues with the addition of the point of view of his sister, Leta, giving us a new and hitherto unseen view into Abriss’ Centre’s world of Unity, as well as a lot of technology, ideas, worldbuilding and the character of Leta herself. Also, starting small again, with him, his ship and his Nophek does start the reader at least the beginning, with a toe in the water. Readers who haven’t read Nophek Gloss and those who have loved it alike are a bit backfooted by Caiden’s new state of affairs, and what he has been up to. Hansen’s time jump of ten years, then, levels the playing field a bit for readers old and new. The first novel had the advantage of starting in a remote region and then bringing Caiden into greater realms here, Hansen goes for the deep end approach to big scale space opera (or epic fantasy) of immersing the reader into the setting and letting them find their footing. Starting ten years after the first book, in many ways, this book is an even deeper ice bath plunge into a complex and complicated world than the first novel. Welcome to Azura Ghost, the second Graven book from Essa Hansen. It’s getting harder for Caiden to escape Abriss’ traps, especially when Abriss has a trump card up her sleeve, one guaranteed to slow down Caiden enough to capture him and his remarkable ship.his long lost sister. Now, ten years later, Caiden and the Azura are legends, a one man, one ship, and one young Nophek crew doing good across the multiverse, staying ahead of the forces of Unity led by Abriss Centre, and dreading what will happen if her equally dangerous brother escapes his imprisonment. The end of Nophek Gloss has caused an upset in the balance of power, and with Caiden on the run. His discovery of the Azura, a ship with abilities and powers far beyond this diminished age, makes him a target seeking to use him. Escaping the death trap of the euphemistically labeled ‘Harvest’, Caiden found himself plunged into a multiversal world caught between several factions vying for control of a universe fractured into many worlds with slightly different physical laws and properties. Grew up on a colony planet, completely unaware of the colony’s true nature and purpose-a feeding ground for the Nophek, a predator creature whose brains concentrate Gloss, one of the most important substances in the universe.