The Ophelia Prophecy
The Ophelia Prophecy is the thrilling new SF romance from the author of 2013 RWA RITA finalist Ghost Planet... Our world is no longer our own.We engineered a race of superior fighters -- the Manti, mutant humans with insect-like abilities. Twenty-five years ago they all but destroyed us. In...
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The Ophelia Prophecy is the thrilling new SF romance from the author of 2013 RWA RITA finalist Ghost Planet... Our world is no longer our own.We engineered a race of superior fighters -- the Manti, mutant humans with insect-like abilities. Twenty-five years ago they all but destroyed us. In Sanctuary, some of us survive. Eking out our existence. Clinging to the past. Some of us intend to do more than survive. Asha and Pax -- strangers and enemies -- find themselves stranded together on the border of the last human city, neither with a memory of how they got there.Asha is an archivist working to preserve humanity's most valuable resource -- information -- viewed as the only means of resurrecting their society.Pax is Manti, his Scarab ship a menacing presence in the skies over Sanctuary, keeping the last dregs of humanity in check.Neither of them is really what they seem, and what humanity believes about the Manti is a lie. With their hearts and fates on a collision course, they must unlock each other's secrets and forge a bond of trust before a rekindled conflict pushes their two races into repeating the mistakes of the past.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429960557 (1429960558)
Publish date: April 1st 2014
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I enjoyed ‘The Ophelia Prophecy’, I don’t read a lot of sci-fi romance and it did make a nice change.The story was very imaginative as we read about a world where DNA manipulation has created various mutant humans that have become insect-like and are known as ‘the Manti’ who became stronger and more...
This book is definitely original. There are things out there about mutants, but insect-human hybrids? I think that the world building in this book was done rather well. There was a good amount of science mixed in so it felt realistic. The action in this book never lets up. I thought at the beginning...
Arc provided by Tor Books through Netgalley This is not an easy review to write. I loved the author's first book, "Ghost Planet", which had me completely enthralled; but this one, ended up mostly being, a chore to finish. I can even admit that what happened here could well be a case of: It'...
Full review to be posted soon: I really enjoyed the world-building, which was an intriguing mix of SF and biopunk. It is set during a post war conflict where pure humans have lost out with genetically enhanced humans who have had their dna mixed with animals and insects. After a virus which has k...