Goodreads Summary: As if nearly blowing up on her way to Earth wasn't bad enough, Daisy had a whole mess of other trouble on her plate. Big trouble. And she was going to clean it off if it was the last thing she'd do... which it was looking like it very well might be.
Daisy had a simple rule for space travel. Don't blow up. So far she'd been managing to abide by that, but something was very much not right.
With the powerful AI supercomputer guiding the craft beginning to show some disconcerting quirks of its own, and its unsettling cyborg assistant nosing into her affairs, Daisy's unease was rapidly growing, as was her bigotry toward artificially intelligent beings. Add to the mix a crew of mechanically-enhanced humans, any one of whom she suspected might not be what they seemed, and Daisy found herself with a sense of pending dread tickling the periphery of her mind.
Something was very much not right––she could feel it in her bones. The tricky part now was going to be overcoming her biases and figuring out what the threat was, before it could manifest from a mere sinking feeling in her gut into a potentially deadly reality.
Only things were far different and far worse than she could ever have imagined, forcing her to repeatedly adjust and overcome a reality that turned out to be far from what it had originally seemed.
The complete series set of all five of the Clockwork Chimera books:
1. Daisy's Run
2. Pushing Daisy
3. Daisy's Gambit
4. Chasing Daisy
5. Daisy's War
A space opera adventure featuring damaged spaceships, rogue artificial intelligence, homicidal cyborgs, mechanically-enhanced humans, genetic engineering, nanotech, and, of course, bloodthirsty aliens.
Daisy had a simple rule for space travel. Don't blow up. So far she'd been managing to abide by that, but something was very much not right.
With the powerful AI supercomputer guiding the craft beginning to show some disconcerting quirks of its own, and its unsettling cyborg assistant nosing into her affairs, Daisy's unease was rapidly growing, as was her bigotry toward artificially intelligent beings. Add to the mix a crew of mechanically-enhanced humans, any one of whom she suspected might not be what they seemed, and Daisy found herself with a sense of pending dread tickling the periphery of her mind.
Something was very much not right––she could feel it in her bones. The tricky part now was going to be overcoming her biases and figuring out what the threat was, before it could manifest from a mere sinking feeling in her gut into a potentially deadly reality.
Only things were far different and far worse than she could ever have imagined, forcing her to repeatedly adjust and overcome a reality that turned out to be far from what it had originally seemed.
The complete series set of all five of the Clockwork Chimera books:
1. Daisy's Run
2. Pushing Daisy
3. Daisy's Gambit
4. Chasing Daisy
5. Daisy's War
A space opera adventure featuring damaged spaceships, rogue artificial intelligence, homicidal cyborgs, mechanically-enhanced humans, genetic engineering, nanotech, and, of course, bloodthirsty aliens.
Genre Listing: Science Fiction, Space Opera
Goodreads Rating: 4.53 stars with 400 ratings
Goodreads/Storygraph Challenge: 8/30 books
2025 Reading Challenge: See the whole challenge here
2025 Reading Challenge: See the whole challenge here
7 Read a book with a person's name in the title - Pushing Daisy by Scott Baron
8 Read a book that takes place in the future- Daisy's War by Scott Baron
34 Read a book that has a war or battle in it - Daisy's Gambit by Scott Baron
44 Read a book that references a TV show or movie - Daisy's Run by Scott Baron
55 Read a book that involves amnesia or memory manipulation- Chasing Daisy by Scott Baron
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Book Review:
Hello, Readers! I hope everyone is doing well. It's been a busy few weeks, but no significant life updates. I'm super thankful for audiobooks right now. I'm back on-site for work after nearly 5 years of working from home. I have a relatively long commute, so audiobooks have been necessary. The omnibus for The Clockwork Chimera was helpful during this drive time since it had five books.
Because I listened to these non-stop, I decided to do an overall review of the entire series instead of each individual book. I took some notes on each book, but they'd have a lot of spoilers. Overall, I really enjoyed the series. Surprisingly, Science Fiction is not a genre I've read much. I definitely haven't read much in the way of "Space Opera" stories, but I enjoyed this quite a bit. I was unable to guess what would happen next because the series hit so many different Science Fiction tropes in each of the five books. I can't go into the specific tropes because it will give much of the story away if I do. It was really well done, however, and not overwhelming. The only downside was that some trickier Science Fiction aspects were hard to grasp.
Along with the various tropes, there were many movie and TV references. It was like a Nerdy Pop Culture Easter Egg hung. I loved it. I felt like this every time I picked up on one:
I appreciated that the series came full circle and had a happy ending (sorry, spoiler). It ended really sweetly, and while I guessed a lot of it, I was still pleased. Honestly, right now, we need more stories that make us go, "Aww."
I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a fun Science Fiction escape. The audiobooks were well done, and I really enjoyed how the narrator told the story. Oh, and for those of us doing the challenge - the first or second books also work for the reluctant hero category.
My Ratings for each of the books are as follows:
Daisy's Run - 4 stars
Pushing Daisy- 4 stars
Daisy's Gambit - 3 stars
Chasing Daisy - 3 stars
Daisy's War - 4 stars
The average is 3.6 stars, so I will give the series 4 stars/moons.
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