Chaos Vector (The Protectorate, #2)
Megan E. O'Keefe
Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in the second book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe. Sanda and Tomas are fleeing for their lives after letting the most dangerous smartship in the universe run free. Now, unsure of who to trust, Sanda knows only one thing for certain -- to be able to save herself from becoming a pawn of greater powers, she needs to discover the secret of the coordinates hidden in her skull. But getting to those coordinates is a problem she can't solve alone. They exist beyond a dead gate -- a Casimir gate that opened up into a dead-end system without resources worth colonizing, and was sealed off. To get through the dead gate, she needs the help of the enemy Nazca. But some Nazca are only interested in the chip in her head -- and they'll crack her open to get to it.
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“We all have our one.”
“One?”
“The one person you’d burn the universe down to save, or to condemn.”
“And do we get one of each?”
She smiled to herself, tight and strained. “No. Life’s never that clean.”
Megan E. O'Keefe does it again. If you think the stakes couldn't get higher after Velocity Weapon you'd be very very wrong.
This book does a really good job of circling back to the mysteries solved in the first book, answering some of the questions we still had, and also posing so many more. You get to learn a lot about the different worlds beyond the gates, moving from different planets and stations, while also learning more about the inner-workings of The Protectorate. The world and characters expand so much in this sequel, I can't wait to see how it all comes to a head in the final book!
This book maintains the POVs from Sanda, Biran, and Jules as our leads, while including one more that I won't name because of spoilers. Where in the first book Jules' chapters didn't seem to have any relevance to Sanda and Biran's, she starts to make much more sense in this one. It was very satisfying to me from a readers side of things to see how everything she'd done and discovered in the first book became important in this one.
I can't wait to read the next and final book in this series, but will be very sad when it's all over!
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