Reviewed by Dan

TITLE:  Phase Shift

SERIES:   Chaos Station #5

AUTHOR:     Jenn Burke & Kelly Jensen

PUBLISHER:     Carina Press

LENGTH:     207 Pages

RELEASE DATE:  May 2, 2016

BLURB:

Zander and Felix’s relationship has always pushed boundaries—personal and professional alike—but their love and commitment is stronger than ever. So strong that Zander’s ready to ask commitment-shy Felix the question of a lifetime when he’s interrupted. The Chaos is being hacked, and crucial, top secret information about the project that created Zander—and his fellow super soldiers—has been leaked.

Neither man could have expected the enormity of what’s discovered at the end of the data trail: an entire colony of super soldiers run by the very doctor who changed Zander’s life forever. And now she needs them both—Zander to train her new crop of soldiers, and Felix’s new crystalline arm to stabilize their body chemistry.

With help from the unlikeliest of allies, Zander, Felix and the Chaos crew must destroy the project and all its ill-gotten information. But when the team is split up and Felix is MIA after a dangerous run, galactic disaster is a very real possibility…and Zander may have missed his chance to ask for forever.

REVIEW:

All good things must come to an end, correct?  That said, I’m sooo going to miss Zander and Felix and the rest of the crew. I’ve found this five book series to be a great read and I’ve enjoyed their exploits, missions, and interactions immensely.

In Book 5, Phase Shift, the crew is back.  This time chasing down the hackers that hacked their ship and stole tons of super-secret information from the ship’s computers about Zander and the program he was in during the Stin War.  In my opinion, it is imperative that you read the other books first, so you understand the background of these characters and understand the importance of those documents to the galaxy as a whole.  I was actually surprised that they still existed, but even in the far distant future, I guess it is still impossible to truly delete anything!

The crew divides up in this one to solve the hacking issue, with Zander and Felix heading off to a far distant planet where half of the signal was sent after the hack.  When they find the program Zander was in, which killed all his fellow soldiers in the program, has apparently been restarted by the same evil doctor who ran it the first time, things will be dicey.

How do two men, alone on a planet, with no way to communicate with the outside universe, actually battle a group of super soldiers?  That I will leave up to you to find out when you read it!  I can’t tell you much else, because there was an awful lot said in the blurb on this one.  But trust me, you will like how it all comes together.  I have to tell you that I loved how the series tied up, but honestly I’d keep reading if there were more books.  It wrapped up neatly, but as with any characters you’ve come to feel are real, you never really want the story to end!

I very highly recommend this series if you’re a SciFi/SpecFic person.  It has a great storyline which flows through the books, and also the interactions of Zander and Felix, friends since childhood, who have grown to be sooo much more.

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