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What Hears You by S.D. Rhodes is the first book in the Ilyr Series. Tara Ven crash-lands her scout ship on swampy, marshy Ilyr. The first thing is to salvage as much as she can from the wrecked craft and build a shelter. The emergency beacon is damaged beyond repair, which makes her predicament more problematic. At night, she hears a voice call her name. The next day, she explores her surroundings and spots six-limbed creatures following her, calling her name, and repeating, ‘Help me.’ Desperate to evade pursuit, she comes across tall, thin beings who live under the matted overgrowth and are at war with the Sere hunting her. After a lengthy journey, they guide her to an old station built by a past survey mission nobody knows about. That is when the horror of Ilyr descends on her.
What Hears You by S.D. Rhodes plunges the reader into a world of tangled marsh, the wild forests of Ilyr, and the predatory Sere who hunt by imitating sounds made by their prey. The author portrays this world in vivid detail, which makes reading the evocative narrative an intimate experience. Tara’s flight from the Sere, her struggle to survive and make herself understood by the humanoids who befriend her, is a trial of persistence. S.D. Rhodes puts a lot of effort into describing how Tara gradually comes to understand her alien friends and their delicate balance of survival against the Sere. For lovers of unique science fiction that explores a strange world in depth, What Hears You will be rewarding.
