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Chilling Effect

A Novel

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Chilling Effect

By: Valerie Valdes
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
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A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.

Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.

But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship’s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family.

To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she’s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.

 First Contact Space Opera Science Fiction Humorous Adventure Comedy Witty Fiction Feel-Good
Interesting Characters • Unique Worldbuilding • Compelling Protagonist • Humorous Elements • Unexpected Plot Twists

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Wish I could say I loved it , and really wanted to .... but .... a little too much cursing in English and in Spanish 😕 and not pleased with the sexual exploits " kinda freaky " NOT AT ALL WHAT I'D EXPECTED FROM THE COVER AND THE SAMPLE ! The narration was done well and going to give it more of a chance because of it .. I'm half way through ... but really don't think my rating will change ..

I think I'm being generous 🤔

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it's a fun story, interesting take but it was hard for me to get through. not enough character build up to actually get me engaged but like I said decent story.

decent story just know draw

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Overall this book is pretty good. You can find a bunch of parallels to other Sci-Fi influences in the story so it's pretty easy to relate to the world and the characters. My biggest issue is you could tell some story beats are coming and how they would play out and the end seemed to drag for me a bit. Not a game changer but its there. As for the other reviewer that was pointing out "Some foreign language", Clearly this character is speaking Spanish. I've never spoken it in my life but I was able to gather what was going on and what the gist was. I chock that up to the Awesome Narration.

Pretty Solid listen

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I saw previous reviews questioning the humor - I found it hilarious! What people find funny is often subjective so I suggest listening to the sample and purchasing it if you find it amusing. Solid story and great character building - I like the characters and am invested in their fates. I read mass amounts of Sci-Fi and it was great to hear a different voice in this genre. Narrator is perfect! I continued the series and am eagerly waiting for the next installment.

Hilarious!

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The characters should’ve been interesting, but they just fell flat and didn’t develop. Talked to a friend who read the whole thing, and she said it didn’t get better. I gave up.

Couldn’t finish

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