I’ll admit it, I judged this book by its cover! When I first saw Alex Hernandez’s Tooth & Talon i knew I had to get it! A black woman in braids and a suit of armor exploring a strange and exciting world?!? That’s right up my alley! Then to find out that the MC is from the Caribbean? And speaks creole? What a delight!

Oya Valette, our brave, flawed MC, is a bit bored with her life. As a classical human, modified for longevity, the near eternity stretched in front of her is daunting and she decides to go work as a pilot for colonists, the Hominocracy, a large intergalactic organization, are sending to Beta Hydri, a solar system with the potential to sustain human life.

Things are going fine, when the planet they set their eyes on, already has signs of life.... is it the robots, a mysterious non-biological race of God-like machines set about the universe building ‘solariums’ or worse still harpies, an offshoot of humanity who sliced their human DNA with that of avian dinosaurs and were said to be wiped off in a genocide referred to as ‘the culling’ a century before?

From this point the story kicks off into high gear!

Imaginative. Compelling. Pure Entertainment. From beginning to end! Definitely a recommended read! Hoping for more stories in this universe!

A fun and inventive space opera that deals with imprtant real world issues. Fans of the genre should jump into this one with both feet and not look back!

In a world full of genetically modified humans and space ships, fifty eight year old Oya is going to live forever. Or, maybe not. Earth is almost abandoned, and our solar system is just the tip of the iceberg in this new world. Mars is inhabited by Raptors, more commonly referred to as Harpies; people that have altered themselves to have wings and talons.

The beginning of the book shows Oya visiting her one hundred and eighty five year old grandmother on her little island, still living on Earth. Everyone around her has evacuated, but she refuses to give up home that she can return it to it's former glory. Oya is worried about her, but she seems fine for the most part. Her grandmother turns out to be probably my favourite character in the book, because she just believes in herself and the world so much that she's almost able to will what she wants into existence, and I want to be like that.

The story itself is exciting, but a little hard to follow. For some reason I felt like I was missing something, like another book beforehand that more thoroughly explained terms, and appearances of things in the story. The third person viewpoint doesn't bother me, and it's jumps right into the action, but I get a little lost trying to follow the actual story. I just can't imagine what's happening with the characters because I can't imagine them in general, and there's a lot of words that I don't know, that aren't explained. Overall, though I did enjoy the story and think it was really unique and interesting. I think it has the potential to have a lot of fans.

If you're looking for something futuristic and somewhat alien, than this is the book for you

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Tooth and Talon has interesting characters, an interesting plot and it's definitely worth reading. I liked the plot and the characters seemed well written.

Nice character building.
The plot moves and never really comes to a complete stop. Could be a tad cleaner but I'm being picky.. I liked the characters and their interaction, none really got on my nerves, which again, isn't always easy.

DNF? Emotional detachment. Honestly, I don’t know if I’m making the right decision to dnf this.

Like: Interesting premise, starts off from jump action, does good job giving information here and there without being info dumpy, big topics (ex: colonization, immortality) that the story seems like it is going to deal with

An interesting and curious space mystery with interesting twist and turns, Oya, and her fellow soldiers found themselves transported into a bundle of feathery mess, which was to be their new home, it was one intrusion they were not giving up on, so they sought a peaceful resolution to their predicament, They were unaware of the steaming kettle of fish they accidentally or I should say willfully found themselves in, they were at the mercy of an unknown intelligence that controls their every movement, and there was nothing they can do about it. They had been outmaneuvered and their imminent survival was at stake, so began a battle of all times where hatred and prejudice knew no bounds, and revenge the steaming motivator or destroyer, let's not forget love, a love that found itself through all the fiery embattlement.