Starfang: Rise of the Clan

Written by Joyce Chng

Narrated by Eve Park

Is a clan captain going to sacrifice everything for her clan? Tasked to kill Yeung Leung by her parents, powerful rival clan leader of the Amber Eyes, Captain Francesca Min Yue sets out across the galaxy to hunt her prey, only to be thrown into a web of political intrigue spreading across the stars. Is Yeung Leung collaborating with the reptilian shishini and playing a bigger game with the galaxy as a price? Is Francesca’s clan at stake? Welcome to Starfang: Rise of the Clan, where merchants and starship captains are also wolves.

“Wolves should not be in space, but here we were, a clan of wolves and merchants. Instead of the preserved forests of New Earth and Noah’s Ark, we were in ships of steel and armor, reading data scans and commanding officers on the bridge. Wolves within the uniform of merchants and mercenaries, human seeming, claws and teeth sheathed.”

– Captain Francesca Ming Yue, of the warship Starfang.

Welcome to Starfang, a space opera with werewolves, politics and intrigue.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bryant Street Publishing
• Release date: Oct 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094420783

Joyce Chng

Joyce Chng is a Chinese-Singaporean children's book author. Her work is regularly anthologized and she has a passion for steampunk, science fiction, and tales of transfiguration.

Reviews for Starfang

[Bill Hair · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

2.25 Stars for me.

Like many other reviewers stated, this story could have been interesting, but it came across as a mess to me.

The MC is a smug wear wolf commander of a ship. She builds herself up but has terrible instincts and zero command capabilities.

During the attempt to capture a drug lord, also wear wolf from an inferior clan, she orders her ship to fire on a building, killing 1,000 or more people. She is saddened by it but it had to be done... Really? Why?

She comes across another couple of ships in space from the same 'inferior' clan which are limping along with catastrophic battle wounds and her only thought is that it must be a trap. The two left alive surrender, but she treats them horribly as it still must be a trap.

They come across more ships later on with shields up and target locked and she wonders if she should get to a high level of readiness... Again, really?

Captured at a space port, subjected to drugging, then the story ends there. Ugh

The Romance? The captain appears to be a lesbian whom is only interested in bedding her female cousin? Why make it a cousin instead of a family friend or neighbor?

The MC spends 90% of the story in her head and that is not a place for a reader to be trapped. I may try the second book but I am apprehensive. My guess is that the author has talent so it could get better.