Brenda's Reviews > Faithless

Once again at the entrance to the tunnels and ready to descend, Rab was exhausted from his search for the young girl, now a young woman who had gone missing all that time ago. He had made a promise to Gift, and his determination to find her and keep that promise was what kept him returning top-side regularly, after only a few days rest plus the replenishing of his food supplies among the tunnel-dwellers.

Stitch and Fin were the brothers Rab had arrived with ten years prior, and they had remained, becoming tunnel-dwellers while Rab searched. Cloud was another friend who’d been rescued from the Top-siders; she was an expert in the farming of ‘shrooms below ground – the tunnel-dwellers staple diet. But Rab had only been “home” for a day when a tragic accident occurred at the ‘shroom plantation – when Rab discovered what Fin wanted to do he was angry. But he agreed to guide them back to their old village; the home they’d left to find a better life…

Their journey was long; the landscape vast and lonely – their arrival at the village confirmed Rab’s original conviction that there would be no one there. And it looked like it had been abandoned for a long time. But Rab was shocked to notice evidence of a fire – had there been someone there recently? Was it top-siders or bounty hunters? Or someone else entirely?

Faithless is the 2nd in the Safe Harbour series by Aussie author Shaune Lafferty Webb and follows on nicely from the first (Cold Faith). Rab’s character has matured, but with his continuing search for Gift, part of his psych has stalled. Cloud is a great stabilising character and adds to the intrigue and emotion of the story. I thoroughly enjoyed Faithless and will be looking forward to the third in the series. Highly recommended.

With thanks to Hague Publishing for my digital copy to read and review.