If you like your sci-fi fast-paced, slightly silly, and highly entertaining, Paul Regnier's Space Drifters: The Emerald Enigma is right up your alley. Glint Starcrost is on the hunt for a mythical treasure while on the run from a variety of bounty hunters. For some random reasons, a teenager from the past and a mysterious, beautiful woman show up on his ship. Along with Starcrost's reptilian strongman, the four of them bounce around the galaxy, narrowly escaping one peril after another.
I enjoyed the nods to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the comparisons to Guardians of the Galaxy are apt. This is definitely genre fiction, but The Emerald Enigma is wholly original. Regnier writes great characters and bars no holds in twisting and turning the story. Without preaching, Regnier injects some fun religious content as well. We learn that Starcrost's sidekick has a gift, or a curse: things he dreams about manifest in reality. So you can imagine the havoc that ensues after he reads their time traveling friend's Bible.
Regnier has fun with the story and works in some thoughtful theological ideas that a discerning reader will enjoy. I'll certainly have fun reading book 2.
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