#30 Admiral by Sean Danker

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When the system tells you someone is in charge it can be hard to fight it when so much of the evidence conflicts with what is said.  And that is the underlying theme to the story. Four people awaken out of a cryo sleep on a ship with no power instead of arriving on the flagship of the Evagardian Empire.  Three of them are recent graduates but one is listed as an admiral and he has to be the youngest looking one the other three have ever heard of.  As they try to find out why they have crashed on a transport ship and not at their destination they try to puzzle out the admiral’s background and of course he isn’t helping.  As they go into each other’s background you get a good sense of world building in the novel.  The four quickly realized they must leave the ship before it kills them and cross part of the planet to a colony that should get them back to where they need to be.  

It is a race against the clock to cross before they run out of air and things are not as they seem when they get to where they need to be.  Lots of tension among the characters and there is the mystery surrounding the admiral a well.  A fun fast read and I want to see more in this universe.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley