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Warrior Wench: A Space Opera Adventure (The Asarlaí Wars Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Marie Andreas (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 1 of 3: The Asarlaí Wars

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Vaslisha Tor Dain is a mercenary starship captain with a few simple rules: A good ship is better than a great man, in case of confusion always err on the side of blowing someone's head off, and never fall for a telepath or a member of her crew.

All of those are about to bite her in the behind.

Vas’s life takes a turn for the worse when she comes back to her crew after what should have been a two week pleasure trip to find out she’s actually been gone a month and has no memory of missing time. Her beloved ship, The Victorious Dead, has been sold for scrap and its pieces scattered throughout the galaxy. In addition, there are unmarked ships blowing apart entire planets and the Commonwealth government can’t, or won’t, stop them.

And that’s just her first day back.

Vas has to fight her crew, the Commonwealth, and a mysterious cadre of warrior monks to get her ship back and save a universe that may not want to be saved.

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The continued adventures in a new trilogy!


Code of the Keepers Book One! Vas and Deven and most of their crew in a new trilogy!	Book Two! Never can keep a good merc down--but the Universe is trying!	Book Three! Book Three-- coming in Summer 2024!

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"Andreas has already been making a name for herself with her terrific fantasy series The Lost Ancients, but now she kicks off a fast-paced and high-energy SF series featuring a band of mercenaries led by Starship Captain Vaslisha Tor Dain. There is plenty of action, thrills and some humor in her new series, The Asarlaí Wars, as these mercenaries become reluctant sort-of heroes in the face of treachery and fanaticism. The launch book sets up this dangerous universe and fills it with amazing characters who are sure to grab reader's hearts and minds. This is going to be a very twisty and dangerous ride!" Four and a half stars- TOP PICK! RT Book Reviews

About the Author

Marie is a multi-award-winning fantasy and science fiction author with a serious reading addiction. If she wasn't writing about all the people in her head, she'd be lurking about coffee shops annoying total strangers with her stories. So really, writing is a way of saving the masses. She lives in Southern California and is owned by two very faery-minded cats. She is also a member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association).
When not saving the masses from coffee shop shenanigans, Marie likes to visit the UK and keeps hoping someone will give her a nice summer home in the Forest of Dean or Conwy, Wales.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01DKSXEKQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marie Andreas (May 24, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 24, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3929 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #216,452 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,033 in Space Fleet Science Fiction
- #1,390 in Space Fleet Science Fiction eBooks
- #2,232 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Marie is a multi-award winning fantasy and science fiction writer with a serious reading addiction. If she wasn't writing about all the people in her head, she'd be lurking about coffee shops annoying total strangers with her stories. So really, writing is a way of saving the masses.

Her first fantasy series, The Lost Ancients, starts with The Glass Gargoyle. The rest of the series is complete at six books total. A continuing series follows another adventure and started with The Seeker's Chest.

A space opera trilogy, The Asarlai Wars, launched with Warrior Wench, and continued with the Victorious Dead. The final book, Defiant Ruin, is available now. More adventures in a second trilogy start with Traitor's Folly!

A steampunk adventure, A Curious Invasion, followed by The Mayhem of Mermaids, will conclude in 2023 with An Intrigue of Pharaohs.

Like portal epic fantasy? The Essence of Chaos is the first book in the books of the Cuari series. The third book, Destruction of Chaos, releases in 2023.

Lighter romantic fantasy can be found with the completed Magic & Sorcery Chronicles. Three royal sisters face challenges and romance on their way to the throne.

When not saving the masses from coffee shop shenanigans, Marie likes to visit the UK and keeps hoping someone will give her a nice summer home in the Forest of Dean or in northern Wales.

Marie is also a member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association) and NINC (Novelists, INC).

To find out more about the books, and future series, please visit her website at www.marieandreas.com--especially if you happen to have a small cottage to give her.

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Erin S. Burns

Humorous space epic, can't wait for the next in the series

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2016

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I received an ARC of this book from the Publisher, via Netgalley, this does not affect my opinion of this book or the content of my review.

Yeah, I don't pick books that I think I WON'T like, but still, I found this book to be unexpectedly fantastic!

What we have here is a space epic adventure story with the humor and sense of ridiculous of Robert Aspiren's Phule's series with some of the epic galactic scope of Ann Aguirre's Sirantha Jax series. And while there is a hint of a romance, it is NOT a romance. And our heroine is a smart mouthed merc with a mysterious back story and unknown capabilities. In many ways Vas remind's me a bit of Ilona Andrew's Kate Daniels. It is nothing like a copy cat, don't get me wrong, and Vas has way more ties than Kate ever did, but there are just some parallels that caught my attention.

There are a couple of different mysteries swirling around, not all of which get resolved since it is a series, a cast of endearing and likable (if unlikely) heroes, and it is all wrapped up in writing that kept me hooked throughout.

It is fun, it is a romp, and I seriously think this series will be going somewhere in the future and will be avidly looking forward to the next book in the series. This is one book where I wish I could do better justice in my review because I really want to see this author find a market so the series will continue. And in that I am serious, serious enough to have bought it even though I got a free review copy, and anyone who knows me in real life knows what a miserly person I am.

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Surprisingly good

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2022

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I didn't think I would enjoy this book, but decided to give it a try and was pleasantly surprised. The plot is old but well written. The characters are clearly fleshed out, and some surprises remain to keep our interest. I look forward to reading the next book in this series.

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JMN4555

Intriguing and exciting series!!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2023

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Congratulations to Marie Andreas for this amazing series. It’s extremely hard to find such an interesting and exciting author who not only writes intelligently but also provides top rated plots, characters and excitement in the stories. I’m really looking forward to the next book.

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Erin Penn

Cap with a Temper

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024

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Warrior Wench is a pretty standard Space Opera with standard characters. I struggled to believe the captain for the first 10-20% of the book - she has a wicked temper that I just don't see thousands of mercenaries following without question. Too reactive to be a captain of an elite multi-species unit.

But the temper is not entirely out of place when a merc comes back from vacation to discover her ship has been sold for parts. Even a Star Trek captain may be violating some of the conventions if the Enterprise had been through a Ferengi chop-shop.

When I hit the 20% mark ... I kind-of lost track of the world outside the book. The non-stop action finally sucked me in. This story is action driven and the characters are along for the ride.

Is the manuscript exceptional? Nah. Did I pick up the next book of the series at 3 am when I completed this one - absolutely. The author has a way of adding mishap upon disaster on top of complication that is just - chef's kiss. I am having a blast reading this series.

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Dori A. DeZonia

Perfect escapism!

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2016

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I bought this book after getting hooked on the Lost Ancients series. I'm so glad the author decided to branch out with another series, and I loved this first book! It's fast paced and I always had to read "just one more chapter." It's the perfect bit of escapism -- space ships, space battles, and a lady space swashbuckler! Also, like in the Lost Ancient series, there's a wide range of odd-ball characters. I'm waiting for everybody to come back in the next book!

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E. Nolan

Not Terrible, But Slow & Vague

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2016

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This book had more potential than it actually delivered. Apart from the often slow pace, I think the biggest problem with this book as the very hazy stellar geography and tech. The scale of distance was very inconsistent, with one line of dialog implying the characters were in a completely different galaxy than they had started out in while at other times the captain could call for ships from her "home" planet and they would show up within hours. The method of travel was never really laid out either with hyperspatial gates suddenly being referred to without having been introduced before, but travel home from a big battle at a gate apparently not using them. It's not important that the tech in an SF story be plausible, but it does have to be presented and be consistent. The same goes for the stellar geography.

There were also a lot of fairly obvious questions that didn't get asked. For instance, the Captain suddenly finds herself in possession of a very famous (or infamous) ship, but the question of what happened to the former owners and crew (who apparently were quite successful at their trade) never comes up.

I had thought while I was reading the book, that it was probably a first novel and had potential despite the problems, and was going to pick up the second in the series to see if the author was still improving, but at the end of the book I found a list of a good number of her previous books, so I suspect she is not going to get better, and I will probably not buy the next book in the series.

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Flo

An enjoyable space opera

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2023

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Well written and a good blend of personal characters, interesting plot and not too many battles described in endless details. Will defiantly look at the other books in the trilogy

Leila Maia

A page turner

Reviewed in Brazil on May 2, 2019

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Kept me glued for the hole night! And that’s something, since I’m very picky when it comes to sci-fi, and unhappily there are not many books like this one...

Brigitte K

Couldn’t stop reading!

Reviewed in Germany on May 13, 2020

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Loved Vas, the captain and the other characters and the suspense. I can’t wait to read the next books to find out what happens to her and her crew further along. I got this book for free but will definitely buy the other ones which I only ever do if something stands out.

MF Miller

Warrior Wench Action-packed and Full of Surprises

Reviewed in Canada on December 4, 2017

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I bought Warrior Wench for one simple reason: It was written by Marie Andreas, whose Lost Ancients series I totally love. The fourth Lost Ancients book is not yet out, so in Ancients-deprived desperation, I made the hyper-leap from fantasy to sci fi, and discovered that Marie Andreas' stories are absolutely gripping no matter what she writes about or what genre she explores.

The story is built on a mystery that begins to unfold as Captain Vaslisha Tor Dain is busy discovering that something shocking has happened to her ship while she's been on shore leave, and she is forced to -- temporarily -- take the ship, Warrior Wench, in exchange. Just how deeply a merely-annoying bureaucratic mistake is rooted and the sinister explanation behind a seemingly isolated happening keeps the tension building and the pace escalating in a story full of surprise twists and rapidly rising stakes.

Although relationships take a back seat to the fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat action that built as the book raced towards it's stomach-grabbing ending, as befitting a good Sci Fi novel, I got to know and appreciate each member of the crew, each wildly different. Marie Andreas has a magical knack of making each character real.

And although we only get a glimpse here and there, the Asarlai are the scariest race I've encountered in space fiction (book or movie).

I have just purchased the sequel, The Victorious Dead, and I can't wait to read it. I only hope that by the time it ends, Marie Andreas has another book ready to launch. In any genre!

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Lewis Prime Ronda

Exciting!

Reviewed in France on April 29, 2019

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The main character would have made a great Browncoat! You quickly love her crew and feel your heart beats faster as they deal with bad guys and a Commonwealth that has become corrupted... I think... I need to read the next book as soon as it’s out!

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