The Empress Game (The Empress Game Trilogy #1)
by Rhonda Mason
What is it about:
One seat on the intergalactic Sakien Empire’s supreme ruling body, the Council of Seven, remains unfilled, that of the Empress Apparent. The seat isn’t won by votes or marriage. It’s won in a tournament of ritualized combat in the ancient tradition. Now that tournament, the Empress Game, has been called and the females of the empire will stop at nothing to secure political domination for their homeworlds. Kayla Reinumon, a supreme fighter, is called by a mysterious stranger to battle it out in the arena.
The battle for political power isn’t contained by the tournament’s ring, however. The empire’s elite gather to forge, strengthen or betray alliances in a dance that will determine the fate of the empire for a generation. With the empire wracked by a rising nanovirus plague and stretched thin by an ill-advised planet-wide occupation of Ordoch in enemy territory, everything rests on the woman who rises to the top.
What did I think of it:
The premise of this book is cool, but it fell flat for me.
I didn't really connect with Kayla and found the love interest boring as heck. Some of the side characters were the most interesting people in the book, but they got not enough screen time by far.
I kept reading, hoping that once the game began I might be gripped by the story, but with no real connection to any of the main players it didn't happen.
All in all not a bad read, but not one I'll revisit. I do have the second book in my TBR, but I don't think I'll pick it up.
Why should you read it:
It's a nice enough SF read.
buy from amazon
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