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MY ⭐️ RATING: 4/5
Format: Kindle Whispersync
BOOK DESCRIPTION
“I can’t juggle starships. I make the ones who can.”
The battle with the Iron Legion has left The Last Horizon battered and broken, drifting in space. Varic needs an exceptional Engineer to fix his ship, and there’s only one person for the job: Mell, the master Aether Technician.
But first, they have to break her out of prison.
Mell has been captured by the Advocates, a group of super-powered vigilantes who dominate their corner of the galaxy. They are led by Starhammer, an invincible champion with a personal obsession with Mell.
The Last Horizon may be crewed by the greatest heroes in the galaxy, but even they have to be careful with Starhammer. Every time he survives a battle, he grows stronger.
In another life, Varic saw the end of that road. If he lets Starhammer become too powerful, the galaxy is doomed.
MY REVIEW
Will brings the action in this series, and as I said in my review in The Captain, this is the epitome of what non-stop action means, it’s just one after another with little breaks in between that focus a little bit on the story and the characters. Though I’m not going to lie, this is my least favorite series by Wight, I just feel like this has a lot missing to it so far. The magic of Cradle and its short books was that you at least got some leveling up with the characters, so there was an element of development despite them being on the shorter side.
With this series so far, it’s no longer in that progression based style and the characters we meet are already at their max of who they are. Now to combat some of the development issues, there were callbacks to his other lives and things that Varic went through that led to where he’s at now, in his 7th life. The only one that really and truly gets any kind of development is Horizon and that’s only because she’s not complete yet. I do like the characters, they are fun and passionate, but the growth is just not anywhere close to what it should be for being book 2, they just are, who they are.
“An enemy fleet entered our system!” Lemon declared. “We will not stand idly by! When you squeeze the lemon, you get the juice!”
The banter between the characters really makes Wights books standout, and I think that’s his biggest attribute as a writer, because even though I didn’t exactly love this, the protagonists all stood out in their own ways and it was easy to like them all. Can’t tell you how many times I giggled. The story is pretty fun, though, it does kind of give off that whole “villain of the week” type of vibe, with how book 1 and now book 2 has finished. So you can really tell that Wight got inspiration from television shows and kind of used that same model of story-telling to tell this story.
And I can’t talk about Wight, without talking about, he who does not need an introduction, Mr. Travis Baldree, with the sensational narration. Honestly, he’s what gives this entire thing life, if I had just read this and not done the whispersync, I don’t know if I would’ve finished it or not. He just brings so much life in his narrations, I recently did a review about another narrator and mentioned that when it comes to characters yelling, he uses a soft voice and it feels weird. Now I know why, because Baldree doesn’t treat it like just a narration, he GETS INTO CHARACTER! Raises his voice, and demands attention when it’s needed. It’s hard to compare others to him because he does such a phenomenal job, but his work should be used as an example of what to do when narrating. Easily a 5/5 performance.
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