The little nobodies that show up for a visual joke or passing encounter. Oh, and meanwhile The Will deals with the death of his former girlfriend and co-worker, The Stalk, sets his mind on freeing the slave girl on Sextillion and meets an old friend of Marko’s. Barr has an agenda while Marko and Klara are away, and he’s not going to let Alana stand in his way. Meanwhile Alana is embarrassingly left in nothing but a towel, holding the baby, and sizing up father-in-law Barr. These two have run-ins with the locals, all quite spicy, and then deal with a conflict from the planet itself. Also included are how Alana and Marko met and fell in love.īut Hazel’s nanny must be found, and Marko and Klara use the teleporting helmets Klara and Barr used to get to the ship to go to the nearest planetoid where Klara’s spell sent Izabel. This is just the first of a handful backstory elements this volume imparts. Volume 2 picks up with a flashback to Marko’s childhood, when an idyllic romp with his pet dog is interrupted by a history lesson his mother imparts about the war that has terrorized their people. Volume 1 leaves off with Izabel being banished by the unexpected appearance of Marko’s parents, Klara and Barr, who were drawn here by the magical connection of the family and Marko’s sword, broken in sacrifice to get the ship to help them escape off planet.

Wrong in the best way–everything I expect from other versions of the tropes played with in this book is turned askew. Wonderful, expectation over-turning ironies that repeatedly made me grin with the novelty and then again with the recognition that I was wrong about this book. It gave me a tree spaceship! And honestly, if Saga gives me nothing else, that gift will be enough to keep a smile coming back to my face in fond recollection.

It gave me Alana and Marko, the central forbidden lovers, and their new daughter, Hazel, either an abomination or the ultimate symbol of hope and peace, or both. 1 gave me a unique world with familiar systems: birth, war, hierarchical power, love.

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