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It’s 2142, and a race of aliens called the Leviathan has been in contact with Earth for about 100 years. The Leviathan are huge entities that can act as living spaceships for other, smaller creatures. And they have been partnering with humans every year to take a limited number of “Honors” on yearlong “Tours” around space. The Honors have hailed from various walks of life and professions. At the end of their year of touring, some are given the opportunity to join the Journey, where they go far out into the universe with a Leviathan and don’t return.
Zara Cole is not a typical Honor. She is shocked when she is selected for the program, in fact. She’s been living on the outskirts of New Detroit, avoiding a more comfortable and sanctioned type of life in favor of being freer. But that leads her resort to petty crime to just get by.
Thanks to her latest crime, Zara is in danger, so she accepts the opportunity to leave Earth and join with another young Honor, Beatriz, on a Leviathan named Nadim. She’s not thrilled about any of it but has to make do.
Turns out, the experience is not at all like she had expected, and she becomes friends with Beatriz and very close to Nadim. She starts to feel at home for once in her life.
But it doesn’t take long for Zara to start to suspect there are dark secrets being kept by the Leviathan and program participants. She faces some tough decisions.
I was in the mood for a good sci-fi space adventure, and Honor Among Thieves fit the bill very nicely. It’s the first in a series, and I immediately downloaded the other two to read soon. It’s pretty imaginative and kept me reading.
Rated: Moderate. Profanity includes 3 uses of strong language, around 75 instances of moderate profanity, about 120 uses of mild language, and about 10 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content is very limited. Violence is fairly frequent, with fights, gunshots, fires, killings and bloody injuries on Earth at the beginning, and large battles with some somewhat gory death to creatures and humans in space.
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