Book Review - "Yonder in the stars" by Skyler Ramirez

"Yonder in the Stars" by Skyler Ramirez is a standalone "Western Sci-Fi adventure" by Skyler Ramirez. It does not appear to be linked to the author's "Four Worlds" quartet and certainly has no connection to any of the novels set in the "Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes."

It's set on a world near enough to our Earth that the hero and narrator's father, one of the few men on the planet who remembered that humans are not indigenous, pointed out to his son Gavin Brigham (Gav) a visible star and told him that this was Sol, where their ancestors came from.

We'll try to avoid spoilers for why the world is the way it is: let's just say that the original human colonists consciously based the society they created on the 19th-century US Western frontier. Their descendants refer to the planet as "Earth" and most of them are under the impression that it is their planet of origin.






















There IS an indigenous intelligent species, with most of whom the majority of humans do not get along well - think cowboys and native Americans and go downhill a bit from there.

The story starts when a ruthless local rancher - at least, at first everyone thinks he is a local rancher - murders the hero's father for his land, and Gav is lucky to escape with his own life. Making his way to safety in another town, he rescues a very strange young woman called Britt, who fairly obviously isn't from anywhere nearby.

It soon becomes apparent that neither Britt or her enemies - who are also Gav's enemies - belong on this world at all.

Outnumbered, outgunned, with only their wits and their courage to protect them - and some assistance from unexpected quarters - Gav and his friends  have to defeat the bad guys in true Western style.

It's an amusing and entertaining story and we can recommend it.

You can buy "Yonder in the stars" from Amazon at:

Yonder in the Stars: A Western Sci-Fi Adventure eBook by Skyler Ramirez, Amazon.co.uk.


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