The new Passage of Time series continues as Jesse and Eric Ramsey continue to run from, well just about everybody, after their accidental time jump five years into the future. The convocation wants Eric because he is a powerful, uncontrolled "not" wizard (as he never graduated to earn that title) and chronomancy is illegal. Earth navy wants Jesse for desertion (that happens when you don't report for duty for five years). Mars wants them because they did it all on that planet. With the galactic civil war going on everyone wants them to choose a side.
It seems like the only safe place is an obscure unaligned space station. But once they dock their troubles just start to escalate. The tension builds as the siblings encounter the various warlords that control different sections of the station, each color controlling a different aspect of station life (blue is power, yellow is fuel and shopping, green is traffic control and station operations, and red is medical). Then the earth navy shows up blockading the station just to make things even more complicated.
This books seems to be about re-building the previously familiar Black Ocean universe, and developing the characters. This is turning out to be a series that will be best read in full chunks, as each novel is more a chapter in this single longer story. This won't be a series to jump in the middle of.
Morin has said that he tries to be very cinematic in his writing, and that continues. Descriptions of people and places enable the reader to see them in their mind, and like most of his books, this often feels more like I was watching and not reading it. Eric and Jesse continue to grow more interesting, but there don't yet seem to be any other permanent characters. There are some continuing antagonists, but they are still nothing more than names at this point.
I am looking forward to seeing where this goes, and what larger story is waiting to be revealed beyond the simple fugitive chase.
Because it is all fun and games . . .
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