Tradepoint Saga Box Set

Books 1-3

By: JJ Blacklocke

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Get the Tradepoint Saga Box Set, featuring all three books in the series. A lengthy space opera filled with political intrigue, mystery, and a diverse cast of characters!

Nine hundred Vennans undertake a cultural exchange to Tradepoint, a space station where aliens from different worlds meet to do business. A young and gifted Speaker, Gredin, is translator and diplomat for the happy occasion.

But a horrific vision shatters her first night’s sleep on Tradepoint. Venna, their homeworld, has been destroyed. Now, the safety of the delegation, the only Vennans left in all of time and space, rests on Gredin’s young shoulders.

Stunned and grieving, she navigates trade wars and political prejudice, bartering with other races - some friendly, some neutral, some outright hostile - for what her people need to survive. And the cost of failure is the unthinkable.

Extinction.

Buy this special-edition omnibus to experience this complete space-opera trilogy today. This coming-of-age tale is perfect for fans of CJ Cherryh, Arkady Martine, Wen Spencer, and Star Trek: Picard.

This bundle contains three full-length novels: Refuge, Aftershock, and The Bereft.

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Fantastic

This was an absolutely fantastic selection of books. Once you start listening to the Narrator’s voice, you’ll be drawn into the story. Loved the characters and the plot was fast paced.

Mate or die

Book one is great. I would listen to it a second and third time. Book two was laughably terrible.
Spoiler alert:

Why the heck was there an eight-hour or so long story about pleasuring one's self before "being chosen." If your chosen dies, you have to join a bereft group and mate as often as you can so you don't die.
This is the campiest sex commune story that continues into book three, where the lead character is so nice she is just given everything her people will need to survive. Barf...

Like I said. Book one is great.
Kate Reading is AMAZING. She is the only reason I listened to all three books.

not really sci-fi

It's not what I was expecting -- it's more of an interplanetary drama/fantasy novel. While not to my taste, the story isn't bad but I returned it as I prefer more "hard" scifi. I expect some others to enjoy it more than I.

Interesting but side tracked story

This story is essentially magic people meets space trade port. There is some fun and interesting concepts explored, while the write just waves a magic want and says The Power for all the usual items about the protagonists species, they miss opportunities to make this feel deeper and more complex as a result.

How do they heal each other, the power. How do they teleport, the power. How do they speak telepathically, the power. How do they de-atomize their bodily waste by products… the power.

Where I really felt the story got derailed was in part two and three where “magic aliens learn the power of non-monogamous casual sex”. This seemed to take over far, far to much of the story. It was not interesting and could have been a page or two and then used more effectively as interpersonal conflict than it was. Just when you expected to get the pay off of the over invested concept.. it dies in a whimper and… the power.

Still, the inter species interactions are interesting. The space port designed to support them is interesting. Some of the characters are interesting.


The upside of this is the wonderful performance by the narrator that gives life to the story. It made it better than the material was. The story went from two dimensional to three.



This was a value as a single credit buy as I would not have continued with out it being more for less.

Mary Sue defined

I really gave this book a fair shot...getting through a lot of it, I am giving 4 stars, but was close to 3. If you don't know what a Mary Sue is, the main character in this book will define it pretty much, at least as far as I got. It was several redundant chapters of a young, scared girl on the verge of tears the whole time. It got old. Fast. A couple of interesting characters to be sure, but not enough to spend time with given the other nonsense going on. Too bad.