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MY ⭐️ RATING: 4/5
Format: Kindle Whispersync
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The final showdown is coming…
Ignacio Zola saw billions of lives as collateral damage in his plan to reach a new world.
But when I got in his way, I didn’t just make him angry.
I made this personal.
Stopping one disaster has only pushed him
towards something even more diabolical.
Now, I have one shot left.
To stop the planet-killing cataclysm Zola has set in motion, I’ll have to repurpose some mind-blowing technology from his own abandoned research center.
Everything rests on Operation Starshot: a one-in-a-million mission to finish what I’ve started.
And even if I survive a journey nothing could prepare me for, I know who’ll be waiting on the other side.
I’ve stared death in the eyes too many times to count.
But to settle this once and for all, I’ll have to go face to face with evil…
MY REVIEW
I really have to start out with the fact that Scott Aiello, yet again, put on another great performance narrating this story. He’s the driving force to what makes this story come alive, and I’m thankful I did the whispersync version of this, to get that experience. With that said, I enjoyed this more than the previous installment of this series because the tension felt a little more tense and satisfying this time, but still not on the level of book 1, Last Man Standing. I was also thankful to see that Falconer decided to go back into space, to give it a more sci-fi feel again, with a mixture of apocalyptic. This felt like a really good way to end the series, but I do like that the author has decided to continue on after this, in a world that he’s already built up.
“Zola is desperate, Ray. And while it’s true that there can be danger in desperation, one thing is even truer: desperate men make mistakes.”
After finishing this first trilogy of the series, I really felt like the antagonist of this story didn’t really live up to his “cold-heartedness” as much as he probably should’ve. There were decisions made that just didn’t seem very smart other than to drum up a little bit of tension for Ray and his mission. Don’t get me wrong, he had some of that cold-heartedness, but at times, it just felt like he was more of a comic book villain type rather than a true cold-hearted mastermind that was willing to remove any obstacle that got in his way. Aside from that, I enjoyed the characters and loved that there was more Laika involved this time around, Driver still has a bit of that “Mary Sue” to her, but I still enjoyed her character and her attitude. The banter between the two really drives the story along in some of its less than exciting scenes because for her back and forth quips.
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