Knight
A legend of Space Opera is back with Knight , the second book in Timothy Zahn's Sibyl’s War series
Nicole Hammond 19 was trying to survive on the streets of Philadelphia. She, cruel bleeding bully Bungie, and doctor Sam were abducted by a race of silent mysterious moth-like aliens and taken to a vast ship Fyrantha .
Now she is a Sibyl. After harmful throat spray, the special young women exchange ship directions for human crews to fix by quadrants. She has found arenas where ShipMasters force alien tribes to fight like gladiators of old, in teams for food.
Competing factions control different parts of the ship. Humans and other sentient aliens caught in the middle. But Nicole is done being bullied, and now she has a plan to take control of the ship. She just has to outsmart war profiteers and slavers to do it.-Goodreads
Title: Knight
Series: The Sibyl's War #2
Author: Timothy Zahn
Page Count: 336
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 4.25/5.0
Date Read: August 13th, 2022
Opening
This was a solid follow up to book one of the series. I originally picked a couple of these up on sale as I recognized the author. They have been good books to read as a break from epic fantasy or science fiction reads though.
Book two picked up right where the first left off. I was honestly feeling some deja vu at first. It was really beginning to feel like a simple reskin in the first quarter of this book. I'll explain that a bit more in detail later in a spoiler area of my review. But after that things definitely took a turn and this book became a different story continuing on from the first.
Pacing
I feel the pacing of the story was on par with the first. We have some good mix of action along with simple dialog and story telling. We meet some new character and learn quite a bit more about those already introduced in the previous book. This isn't one of those non-stop action type of reads but there is more than enough to keep a reader interested.
World Building
The world building was done well again. Granted we are still on the same ship we were on in the first book, but we begin to explore a lot more of it. Again I don't want to give to much away in this section of the review but the ship is large enough to have several different feelings or vibes depending on the part the characters are in during the story.
Character Development
I feel the character development is probably the strongest of the three main areas I usually discuss. As I mentioned earlier we continue to learn more about the previously introduced characters. We get to know them and their pasts more as well as seeing them grow during this story. We also have quite a few new characters introduced which continues to make things interesting in a story like this as well.
Closing
All in all I've been enjoying this series for the reasons I gave above. These are just fun, easy, short novels to read through. I still have one more on the shelf to round this trilogy out. I should be able to get to this in the next month or two.
Scoring
Pacing 4.0 / 5.0
Worldbuilding 4.0 / 5.0
Character Development 4.5 / 5.0
