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Reviewed by Saifunnissa Hassam for Readers' Favorite
A.K. DuBoff's gripping and suspenseful Lost Planet is Book 2 of the Starship of the Ancients series. Evan Taylor and Anya Rohas are among the forty or so survivors who escape from their starship moments before it explodes in orbit around the alien planet Aethos. Evan is an interplanetary defense and security investigator. Anya is a xenobiologist with extensive experience surveying alien planets. As Evan and Anya explore Aethos, they find an ancient alien city and a starship with highly advanced technology. They discover that the starship, the Asamar, is controlled by its highly advanced sentient AI, Sam, who flies them to his home planet. Sam is shocked to discover that his planet has been devastated by some catastrophic event. Evan, Anya, and Sam team up to find out what happened to Sam’s race, the Korani, a spacefaring alien race. On Aethos, Evan and Anya had encountered other groups from their core interplanetary world, the Commonwealth. The tension and action skyrocket as these groups pursue Evan, Anya, and Sam.
I thoroughly enjoyed A.K. DuBoff's Lost Planet. I liked the diversity of characters and how the alien technology and the complexity of an interstellar power struggle are revealed through different key characters. I particularly liked the character development of Evan Taylor and Anya Rohas, and their teamwork and courage, as they face life-threatening challenges, caught in the eye of a dangerous interstellar power struggle to control the Korani alien technology. Evan’s investigative experiences and abilities in planetary security complement Anya’s keen observations and her analytical and investigative experiences as a planetary xenobiologist. The characters and the intense rivalries in the interstellar plot sprang to life through well-crafted dialogues, imaginative and detailed descriptions of planets and deep space, and through intense and terrifying space warfare. I enjoyed very much how Sam, the sentient AI, emerges in the story, beginning with Evan and Anya’s stunning and extremely mystifying discovery deep in the mountains of Aethos. I liked how this leads into the story of Sam, his race, the Korani, and their advanced technological powers. I highly recommend this action-packed and character-driven novel to fans of science fiction, space opera, aliens, and advanced technology.
