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Sigrid and Suko are two girls from the impoverished and crime-infested streets of 24th century Earth. Sold into slavery to save their families from financial ruin, the girls are forced to live out their lives in service to the Kimura Corporation, a prestigious mercenary clan with a lineage stretching back long before the formation of the Federated Corporations. Known only to Kimura, the two girls share startling secret-a rare genetic structure not found in tens of millions of other girls. But when their secret becomes known, Sigrid and Suko quickly find themselves at the center of a struggle for power. Now, hunted by men who would seek to control them, Sigrid and Suko are forced to fight for their own survival, and for the freedom of the girls from Alcyone.

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The Girls from Alycone is a book for the sci-fi adventure lovers out there who want a story with pretty awesome tech and kick butt main characters to delve into.

The story spans a pretty decent sized time-frame and covers from when the girls are first taken in by the Kimura Corporation to when they are adults and fully functioning mercenaries, and while the book moves a decent clip it doesn’t feel rushed or glossed over. We get a good idea of the tactics used to make these somewhat unassuming girls into women with tech built in and a knack for handling trouble single-handily. Our focus though is mostly on Sigrid and Suko as they grow up, grow closer, and deal with the on coming storm of in fighting within the mercenary guilds. Sigrid’s slow transformation into the sure and steady woman she becomes is quite awesome. She starts out rather slowly, always trailing behind the other girls in most of their lessons, but she thinks differently and she knows what she’s good at…and soon she becomes a focus for both Kimura and those who want them gone. She becomes a warrior, in fact…this book is full of females who kick some serious butt even the ones on the other side of the conflict are pretty epic. The relationship that forms between Sigrid and Suko, while not the overall focus of the novel, is just the right little push to make this one hit home. I might be a little partial but best friends slowly falling for each other kind of gets me every time.

I really loved the world-building as well, and while it is a sci-fi story with some pretty cool advancements and space travel it still held on to somethings like weapon technology, and think it gave it a little flair. I get kind of tired of seeing laser weapons and the like, so to see grenades and bullets is a plus. I’m really pleased with the amount of things GfA explores in this like: indentured servitude, birth debts, space travel tech (relays!), privatized “non-bias” companies in charge of major functions, and merc guilds functioning within laws and are recognized by the powers that be.

I think at this point it’s safe to call me a Kristen James fangirl. This is my 6th audiobook that she has narrated, and I seriously can’t wait to listen to more. I actually bought another audio simply because she’s the one reading it. I think Girls from Alcyone is some of her best work, simply because of the amount of voices she uses with different inflections and accents is pretty high…and of course she’s great at putting just the right amount of emotion into every word.

I’m super excited for book two, because the ending of this one puts the girls in a rather interesting place and with the fight far from over I definitely can’t wait to see how Sigrid handles it.

Product details Paperback 314 pages Publisher lulu.com (December 19, 2011) Language English ISBN-10 1105337278

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The Girls From Alcyone Cary Caffrey 9781105337277 Books Reviews

*I requested to review a copy of this audiobook for an honest review from the author or narrator.

Sigrid's parents sell her to Kimura due to the debt they own. Kimura has found Sigrid has a rare genetic code, and it's perfect for their program. Sigrid grows up in the academy, taught to take care of herself and becomes stronger mentally and physically. Sigrid and the other girls don't realize they are a secret experiment. But when the secret gets out, Sigrid will have to fight to save herself, her love, and those she's grown to see as her sisters. Finding out who's behind the attacks will be harder than Sigrid expected, and safe harbor is needed for all the girls like her.

I do love listening to Kristin's voice(s). Each character truly feels as though they have their own voice and personality as I listen to her bring the characters to life in voice. Oh the music leading in at the title, wow. Seems to fit the image of the cover. I really liked it! There are a few accents in the story as the girls are from different places, a Kiwi one for Suko and Kristin voices it true. The little extras that are added to voice effects is a bonus for me. Kristin does this like when in water and water muffles talking as it covers a characters mouth.

There are many young girls brought together at Alcyone at a young age of 8-9. We see the girls grow closer as they are trained and suffer from the abuse of other girls bullying them. I found the beginning slow with this growing of the girls. The beginning is all about Sigrid and Suko at the academy and how others were cruel to Sigrid and how Suko came to her rescue. Other than Sigrid not wanting to be at the academy, I don't know what the direction of the story was. I guess that they are growing into and trained to be mercenaries?

Then things pick up. When the girls find trouble during a training exercise, men trying to take the girls, that's when the story started to pick up, which was in chapter 6, 2 hours into the 10 hour book. Then it calms again. When things go sideways for Sigrid and others like her, that's when the story became more interesting for me. There is a good bit of action in trying to take Sigrid and others along with how they react to stay free. This is the last third of the book. It feels as we get a lot of growing up and friendship and enemy bonds made in much of this book. For me, it's a bit slow in moving for all of this even though it's showing the world as a vast place and setting it up for the troubles that will come. I found the book moved better after the halfway point of the story.

Most of the book is Sigrid's POV. Then we start getting POV's from Carl, Suko, Selene, and a few others to see the different sides of the story. We also get views from the scientific side of the researcher through Dr. Lisa Garrett's journal entries. This tells us what they are doing to the girls to make them stronger, faster, and more enhanced. We also see how the enhancements work with the girls through Sigrid's story. It seems all done to the girls doesn't harm them, which is what they were looking for in the genetics so that none are harmed.

I found the book a space opera with the direction of Sigrid living a life. It was a soft story as everything Sigrid comes across in troubles, she easily dominates and works through it. Things seem to be easy for her, like the bully in school and how she just disappears. Then taking over a small vessel that was trying to capture her. Sigrid is powerful, but it doesn't seem like there is a challenge out there for you. I didn't have the worry of danger going into these scenes and for that didn't feel invested with Sigrid.

At the beginning I could have seen this story being a wonderful YA sci fi opera story except for the sex scenes that are present. Then as Sigrid and the girls grew up and ventured out on their own, the story aged too. They experience things and we start to see the conspiracies forming.

Oh, about the book description. It mentions that Sigrid and Suko are two special girls with a rare genetic structure. It's true, they are. But they are not the only two. The girls at Alcyone are all found to have the rare genetic coding. So there are more than these two, it's just that we see these two more closely in the story. Also, I took the fighting done by these two as they were a team together. Not always. Most of it is actually Sigrid and Suko's not aware of what's happening out in the universe as Sigrid is learning all the information.

By the end of the book, it was exactly what I wanted from my space operas. I am curious to see if the next book keeps up the pace that this book ended on.
I enjoyed this book and beleive it was value for money, 99c was great value and part of the reason I give it 4 stars. Many bad reviews have commented on the lesbian overtones and sections and to tell you the truth, I mostly skipped those pages and sure they ended up loving each other so did not see the big problem. It was a bit female centric with few men making any impact as real people to my reading but it is not like they were all lesbians or something.

Ok, the author describes them as gorgeous beauties and that is not surprising considering the reason they are purchased/recruited. The beginning is very good and in many ways typical of any "recruit" training/ military books are often depicted but with the scifi, "enhanced"/upgrades that marks the key points of this book and it's sequel.

Yes, i bought the next book straight away to read it after finishing this one.

So this books is essentially a military sci-fi style book focused around about 30 odd young girls being found and "purchased" (yes, in an Ender's game style) and then being enhanced (aka Blade Runner style but mostly human) and the fallout from the "Conferation" and other mercernary groups fearful that these 30 odd girls being trained/grown/enhanced as assassin/mercs will change the balance of power in the Confederation.

I found some of the critics here amazing in their "putdown" seems they don't read Mathew Reilly and the way his hero is so "superhuman" (Scarecrow) and he is not even enchanced, lol

I found it to be a good fun action book and total value for 99 cents, to me this first book was the better one
The Girls from Alycone is a book for the sci-fi adventure lovers out there who want a story with pretty awesome tech and kick butt main characters to delve into.

The story spans a pretty decent sized time-frame and covers from when the girls are first taken in by the Kimura Corporation to when they are adults and fully functioning mercenaries, and while the book moves a decent clip it doesn’t feel rushed or glossed over. We get a good idea of the tactics used to make these somewhat unassuming girls into women with tech built in and a knack for handling trouble single-handily. Our focus though is mostly on Sigrid and Suko as they grow up, grow closer, and deal with the on coming storm of in fighting within the mercenary guilds. Sigrid’s slow transformation into the sure and steady woman she becomes is quite awesome. She starts out rather slowly, always trailing behind the other girls in most of their lessons, but she thinks differently and she knows what she’s good at…and soon she becomes a focus for both Kimura and those who want them gone. She becomes a warrior, in fact…this book is full of females who kick some serious butt even the ones on the other side of the conflict are pretty epic. The relationship that forms between Sigrid and Suko, while not the overall focus of the novel, is just the right little push to make this one hit home. I might be a little partial but best friends slowly falling for each other kind of gets me every time.

I really loved the world-building as well, and while it is a sci-fi story with some pretty cool advancements and space travel it still held on to somethings like weapon technology, and think it gave it a little flair. I get kind of tired of seeing laser weapons and the like, so to see grenades and bullets is a plus. I’m really pleased with the amount of things GfA explores in this like indentured servitude, birth debts, space travel tech (relays!), privatized “non-bias” companies in charge of major functions, and merc guilds functioning within laws and are recognized by the powers that be.

I think at this point it’s safe to call me a Kristen James fangirl. This is my 6th audiobook that she has narrated, and I seriously can’t wait to listen to more. I actually bought another audio simply because she’s the one reading it. I think Girls from Alcyone is some of her best work, simply because of the amount of voices she uses with different inflections and accents is pretty high…and of course she’s great at putting just the right amount of emotion into every word.

I’m super excited for book two, because the ending of this one puts the girls in a rather interesting place and with the fight far from over I definitely can’t wait to see how Sigrid handles it.