Vinium

The Silver Ships, Book 10

By: S. H. Jucha

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

After the passage of two decades, the Omnians discovered a second, critical clue about the Nua'll, humankind's enemy, while investigating Celus-4, the home world of the intelligent, canine-like aliens, the Dischnya.

This striking discovery, combined with the final broadcast of the Nua'll sphere at Libre, prior to its detonation, gave Alex Racine and company the means to narrow the search for the Nua'll home world.

Alex has a consuming desire to locate the point of origin of the Nua'll before another gigantic sphere arrives to destroy more colonies. The first sphere's incursion into the Confederation burned billions of humans to ash.

Six scout ships are constructed by the Omnians and crewed by SADEs, self-aware digital entities, to search the stars along a narrow path defined by the two clues.

During its search, a scout ship, the Vivian, is captured by an alien warship in a faraway system that the SADEs dub Vinium. The two ships, locked tightly together in a form of electronic warfare, achieve an impasse.

The scout ship calls for help, and Alex Racine receives the strange message. According to the SADEs, the aliens aboard the warship appear to be plant people.

Rescuing the scout ship presents Alex and his companions the opportunity to meet the plant people, the Vinians, on their home world. It leads the Omnians to one more incredible discovery about the Nua'll, which, unfortunately, proves Alex's worst fears.

©2017 Scott H. Jucha (P)2018 Hannon Books, Inc.

Amazing. Riveting. Brilliant.

This series kicks ass. I can't wait to listen to the next installment. Please let this be 15 words.

Continued Treat for The Sci-Fi Unvierse

As good as the first ... anxiously waiting for the next ... Getting long .. time to conclude?

great book love to read it

the book was very exciting and I could hardly wait to finish it seems like I was reading it when I should have been working or when I should have been sleeping but it carried my interest to the entire book

A rare miss for the series

Books 1-9 have been great and progressed the story and action very well. Strange, this tenth addition to the series seems to have been rushed and includes very little substance (which is surprising given we are introduced to a brand new alien species entirely developed from plants at the beginning of the story). Greater than 2/3 of this story is just mundane patter between the characters that has nothing to do with the story as a whole. Seriously, the talk is as inconsequential as "what did you have for breakfast? Are you going to have lunch? Have you gone shopping for dinner? and spread out that kind of conversation through 2/3 of the book! It felt like S.H Jucha only had 4 hours of story lined up and filled the remaining 10 hours with nothing patter between the characters.

Thankfully, book 11 looks lined up to provide all the missing action from book 10 and I'm looking forward to the listen!

Better

The books were starting to feel a little "cookie cutter" with how great and wonderful Alex is, doing the same thing over and over again. This one started out that way but then moved on to continue the actual storyline that got me interested in the series to begin with. Excited for the next book!