Review: Lucifer’s Star

Lucifer’s Star by C.T. Phipps
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Lucifer’s Star was reminiscent of the classic space opera adventure stories I remember reading as a kid. I say “reminiscent” because although it had many of the same elements as those stories, Lucifer’s Star is nothing a kid should be reading. Which is great, because as an adult, I enjoy a little gratuitous profanity, sex, and violence mixed in with a well-written and engaging science fiction story -- and that is precisely what Lucifer’s Star is.

Lucifer’s star introduces an interesting and entertaining cast of characters to what I hope will be a long series. At the start of the story, quite a few of the characters seemed like they are going to be walking, talking science fiction tropes, but they were developed well through the book and became unique and compelling characters I cared about and rooted for. The plot did get confusing at times and all the character’s allegiances, secrets, and in some cases, bodies (that’s right, I wrote “bodies” and meant it) were hard to keep straight, but everything was resolved and nicely wrapped up by the end. The author, C.T. Phipps, keeps a WordPress blog and has a really great post dedicated to revealing more about the Lucifer’s Star universe, so if you feel the details getting muddy keeping the factions and organizations clear in your head, I found reading the background of the setting helpful (and entertaining in its own right).

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