Fantasy Book Nerd

Aaaaah, holidays! A relaxing time to sit and read, take things easy and get a bit of reading. Like heck they are! Between tromping here, there and everywhere, and avoiding the obligatory dreaded boat trip I am managing to post this review of Helyna L. Clove's debut book Skylark in the Fog. So when the universe falls to pieces, it doesn’t mean your life has to, right? That comes later. Jeane Blake, captain of the spaceship Skylark, makes her living by looting dead worlds, planets fallen prey to naturally occurring wormhole-like rifts plaguing the cosmos. She survives the only way she knows how: avoiding commitment and arguing with her dead foster father's ghost. But when her crew stumbles upon an alien device that could collapse the wormhole network and wipe out all sentient life, they catch the hungry eyes of the Union, a tyrannical empire hunting the sinister tech. As she flees the Union’s brainwashed agents, Jeane is forced to take on a sha