Jubilee by Stephen k Stanford blogtour

It was meant to be an in and out mission…

Jubilee is a lawless, artificial world existing within its own parallel universe; a seething cesspool of vice ruled by an eccentric AI.

So people say .

Detectives Col and Danee are sent to Jubilee on a hastily organised mission to recover the body of a leading conservative politician (someone it seems, has been a naughty boy). But the corpse has been switched and the imperilled partners are drawn together. They might be falling in love, or they might be saving the galaxy – either way the authorities will not be pleased.

Author biography

Stephen K. Stanford grew up in the rural outer Melbourne suburb of Eltham, the eldest of five children in a sprawling artistic family. After dropping out of an Economics degree, he travelled to Europe on a one-way ticket and returned some considerable time later with an Italian wife – two children following rapidly thereafter.

My thoughts

Space Opera is a genre that has become synonymous with a few large franchises in science fiction. It is a mixture of science fiction and soap opera. They have the great aspects of sci-fi with a real world feel that is very emotional.

The three big franchises that everyone remembers is Star Wars, Star Trek and Babylon 5. This new book has a similar feel to it with strong character building making you really love the style.

Quantum jump drives are a great sci-fi creation and I liked the fact that they also use parallel universe. The parallel universe is an interesting style point and it works well for the book genre.

The author has wrote this book well and I loved the setting of the book. It had a great feel to it which is not always the case in space Opera. A lot of times it could feel like the setting is pushed and it has done some more over the story and characters.

This wasn’t the case in this book as the setting was actually what made this book more entertaining. The characters themselves were not really what I like for the most part but they were well written even if I didn’t enjoy them that much.

What I do love about this book though was the alternate universe which shows a more lawless type of book. This isn’t always the case as we quite often see more of a utopian style with these stories and I was glad that this one wasn’t like that. I enjoy a more dark nature in this type of book where you get to see both good and bad.

All in all this is a good quality of book and I enjoyed it a lot and would definitely read more from this author.