Today, I bring you another blog tour set many light-years away, perfect to escape from our solar system. I’m talking about Lost Solace by Karl Drinkwater. My many thanks to Anne Cater and the author for allowing me to be a part of this tour. Author: Karl Drinkwater Pages: 273 Genre: Sci-Fi Publication: 15th October 2017 Synopsis: Sometimes spaceships disappear with everyone on board – the Lost Ships. But sometimes they come back, strangely altered, derelict, and rumoured to be full of horrors. Opal is on a mission. She’s been seeking something her whole life. Something she is willing to die for. And she thinks it might be on a Lost Ship. Opal has stolen Clarissa, an experimental AI-controlled spaceship, from the military. Together they have tracked down a Lost Ship, in a lonely nebula far from colonised space. The Lost Ship is falling into the gravity well of a neutron star, and will soon be truly lost… forever. Legends say the ships harbour death, but there’s no time for indecision. Opal gears up to board it. She’s just one woman, entering an alien and lethal environment. But perhaps with the aid of Clarissa’s intelligence – and an armoured spacesuit – Opal may stand a chance. Review: Opal is the type of female heroine that was missing in my life. She doesn’t flinch, she doesn’t cower, she’s a force of nature. Once she has an objective is not much you can do to stop her. She was fierce throughout the entire book, even when the end was inevitable, she managed to refocus and be ready for battle. Certainly, Clarissa still plays a big part in Opal’s strength. Their relationship is no longer human and machine, but instead friends. And me after watching multiple movies with AIs, I know that you can never trust one. From the first page, I never believed that Clarissa was, in fact, a friend to Opal, and I was waiting for the moment when she would double-cross her. But I guess I have to read the second book, Chasing Solace, to find out if that’s true or not. It was strange when I realised this was going to be a story with only two characters. That’s something I never read before. And even though there were times when Opal interacted with other people, it’s clear that the story is an only two-person adventure. There where times,...