In 2036, an eccentric billionaire funded humanity’s first trip to Mars as an ego project. That expedition made the most significant discovery in human history: proof of extraterrestrial life. The ancient alien outpost they found catapulted humanity’s knowledge of faster-than-light travel, genetic engineering, and planetary colonization forward by centuries.
Almost a century later, humanity has shown that despite their use of advanced technology, some things haven’t changed. Greed and xenophobia still run rampant amongst the stars, and wars are common between humanity’s dozens of extrasolar colonies.
Kayden is a recently discharged military pilot, just trying to make his way in the big universe. Fortunately for him, he’s about to stumble upon humanity’s next great discovery – one that could have an even more profound impact on the course of human history than finding the Mars outpost.
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- Chapter 1Jul 8, 2023
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(4/5)
Good characters, great character arcs, plot was fine, but slightly predicable (knew who the bad guys were and what they had very early on).
What I think really hurts the story (still good 4/5, but made his first book got better) was that the setting (since this book is not limited to not just a world), it feels like it is not sure what it is sometimes. Keydan's solo time period (beginning chapters), very much felt like a star wars story, with the fighter vs fighter combat especially. While his time on port vega, felt more Blade Runner, and as soon as he got the Broken Shackle it felt like firefly/mass effect. And so the world/setting didn't really feel like it was special, because it was trying to be some much at the same time. Meanwhile his first book (Royal Blooded) was clearly a modern fantasy, but it still felt very unique and more than it knew what it was.
With that said, I think that now the crew and properties are more or less settled, I am not sure if that will be a problem going forward. So am looking more in this setting.
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This Novel is the best! I've been trying to find a good sci-fi novel and I finally found it.
100% would recommend.
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Read it! No seriously, read it! Really good story. MC isn’t an idiot. Loveable companions, wink wink. &Nbsp;Grammar is good, plot is good, plenty of revenge. Nothing to not like
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Great story, great smexy times and one of the smartest excuses to ogle a naked lady yet. The MC is a wee bit overpowered however it comes with drawbacks and the enemies he's gathered so far are more then enough to balance it 5/5 stars as the story shows a lot of promise 😉
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Good story with promise. Looking forward to future chapters. Getting better
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