Reviewed by: Michael Thal
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Approximate word count: 120-125,000 words
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Author:
A resident of Granollers, Spain, a city near
Barcelona, Nadine Ducca is a translator and interpreter. Currently, she’s
coordinating the Cambridge English Language Assessment examinations as well as
translating and interpreting documents for Granollers City Hall. During her
free time she writes flash fiction for online magazines and she’s working on Making Time, the sequel to Serving Time.
Description:
Did you
ever wonder why we have crime, wars, and pestilence? According to Nadine Ducca,
author of Serving Time, the Creator,
Logos, after setting up the universe, took off for parts unknown, leaving our
universe to be ruled by Time and a legion of demons.
With twists
and turns on every page, Ducca mixes mythology, religion, and violence to a new
level that may enthrall some readers.
Appraisal:
Through a
convoluted plot of settings, times, and characters, Serving Time is a science fiction novel that takes place in the 24th
Century in a solar system comprised of many diverse colonies. Eneld Cross is
about to leave his home on the moon to help solve the problem of plant life
taking over Mars. His brother, Tristan, is sick and tired of his job—corporate
assassin.
Fearful of
dying on Mars and a compulsion to be his brother’s keeper, Eneld decides to
accompany Tristan at his new job—shipping illegal drugs to outlying colonies
for StarCorp, an unethical corporation.
This
reviewer was confused during a few plot sequences taking pages of careful
reading to determine what was happening. Perhaps if the author included
transitions that provided clearer sequential plot order, the confusion would
have been alleviated.
Ducca does
a nice job of developing characters like Time, her kid sister Future, and
Eneld. However, the evil that seems to permeate the book is overstated and not
reflective of the true human spirit.
Rating: *** Three stars
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