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Title: Rebel Alliances

Subtitle: Targon Tales, Book 3

Author: Chris Reher

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-16

Publisher: Podium Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Captain Nova Whiteside receives new technology designed to change the dynamics of the Commonwealth wars. Enemy factions conspire, and so Nova finds herself aboard a rebel ship where her value as hostage isn't nearly as great as her value as a defector.

Also suspected of collaboration, her Delphian Vanguard partner Tychon sets out to track her down. He discovers a puzzling piece of Nova's past when a motley alliance of strangers comes to his aid and their search leads him deep into rebel territory.

When the full consequences of the rebels' ambitions become clear, far removed from the intervention of Air Command, Tychon and Nova are forced to consider the unthinkable.

This is book four of the Targon Tales, although it is, like the preceding volumes, a complete stand-alone story.

Members Reviews:

Fourth book lives up to expectations

In this fourth book in the Targon Tales-- and apparently the last to feature Capt. Nova Whiteside as protagonist-- the Rebel Alliance captures Whiteside shortly after she has received an implant designed to allow her to communicate telepathically across vast regions of space, via the equivalent of wormholes. Two separate factions of the Alliance separately managed to learn about the Union Commonwealth of Planets' R&D program, and Whiteside, a youth from the planet Delphi named Jovan, and a dozen scientists and technicians from the project are taken while trying to escape from the rebels-- their ship and that of the rebels end up jumping to an uncharted star system without habitable planets, in a jump that killed the pilot, like Whiteside equipped with the experimental implants. The Rebel captain says that unless Whiteside uses her implant to jump them back, he said I'll kill her and the other hostages.

That's just the setup, for a book that is not just an exciting work of space opera but also contains an interesting question of ethics: is it right to kill a thousand people to save the lives of millions?

If you haven't read Reher before, I envy you for having it still ahead of you... but this really isn't the best place to start. Sky Hunter is the first book about Nova Whiteside's career, and this is the rare series in which we can watch the protagonist grow not only in terms of skills but also as a moral and ethical human being from novel to novel.

If there's a fault here, it is less the author's than his creation's: it does seem a shame that two separate (and competing) factions of the Rebels' spy services had managed to penetrate a top secret Union scientific research center while the Union's security services were clueless!

Highly recommended.

My favourite book of the series

The third book in the series, Rebel Alliances maintains the fire and charm that exists in the previous novels. We find Nova, no longer a 'greenie' but a proven soldier, on a new mission. She is to test a new type of gear that will greatly improve communication methods in the military. But not everyone is pleased with this change, and so, Nova finds herself, once again in the middle of a military wide fight - and against people she trusted.

There is no limit of action in this book.