We had left Ajwan at the end of Volume 1 of this series in the ranks of the Interplanetary Federation’s special forces. On planet Splendor, a member of the Federation, events develop further. A dictatorship is insidiously set up, and Ajwan’s son is placed by his captors near the sultan’s heir, for a purpose still obscure... The author knows how to create suspense, the plot goes at a breathless pace, the writing is fluid, all the elements are there to captivate the reader, even the beginnings of a love story ... Noura Ahmad al-Noman confirms her talent as an author of science-fiction, a genre little represented in the youth literature of the Arab world.