Ruby Celeste and the Ghost Armada (Volume 1)
Prepare to enter a dangerous place—the world of sky pirates!
After arriving at The Pharmacologist’s Eden, a grand floating port run by the cut-throat Rhod Stein, Ruby Celeste discovers the deckhand she arranged to purchase has been sold out from under her and replaced with a man kidnapped from the world’s surface. So after dispatching his guarding henchmen, she snatches him and then flees—but not before blowing a gaping hole in the SkyPort.
But unbeknownst to Ruby, Stein survives the blast. And along with the assassins now hot on her tail, she has other problems to contend with: the frail man she kidnapped and his newfound place on her ship, a pervasive series of dangerous electrical malfunctions—and what about the diary she finds on a derelict ship? Are its pages filled with the deranged words of a madman—or does it really hold the key to finding the mysterious Ghost Armada?
Came for the action, but the people won me over.,
I found this book very hard to put down once it got going, which was almost straight away. Most of the book did feel like a setup for the series, introducing characters and so on, but quite frankly that’s where the book shines as the characters are some of the best I’ve read in a good long while. You want pick up the next volume just to see how they are all doing. The captain herself is very intriguing and I look forward to see how she developed.
This volume may be bait to lure me into the rest of the series, but it worked and I can’t wait to read the next book. The only problem being that I’m going in with very high expectations.
I enjoyed this book from the moment i started reading,
A brilliant read!,
If you’re getting this on Kindle, it’s free, which for something like this is an absolute steal. I look forward to starting the next book in the series as well as picking up the spin-off novel (The Final Flight of Castle Adeline) which promises to extend and elaborate upon this dangerous, exciting and thrilling world that Ambrose has crafted and introduced in ‘Ghost Armada.’
Highly recommended!