He very much has cap Jack Sparrow energy too and no I won’t elaborate there because I don’t want to spoil it more and I wouldn’t really do it justice. Main protagonist Sean Wren is the lovable and charming rogue who is fully aware of his limitations and is an absolute nerd when it comes to linguistics and sociology. The very beginning is also your typical gathering a team for a heist with a bit of a Suicide Squad spin. Hunt weaves comedy, action, and horror/thriller elements to create a fast paced romp through an abandoned spaceship floating nearby a sun that is days away from going supernova. But more than anything this is one of those times that I can say it was character driven plot at its finest. Now then, what we have here is an action adventure with high stakes that manage to become higher and higher as the story goes on.
So kudos to the artist, you did a magnificent job! Quick note on the cover art first, this thing is *freaking gorgeous*. It was the kind of book I’d love at any other time regardless, but I needed the most now. Stuff in my life is being hard on me rn but Taran Hunt’s The Immortality Thief was the escape I needed, giving me one hell of a distraction, several good laughs as well as lots of feels. Hello again dear reader, guess today is double feature day!! I promised you another sci-fi read soon and here I am, happy to deliver a most delightfully awesome book I had the pleasure of reading over the last few days. My (very pleased) thoughts remain honest regardless. Thank you to Rebellion Publishing for approving my eArc request of this title on Netgalley. In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days… and the terrible secret it’s hiding. The Ministers, mysterious undying aliens that have ruled over humanity for centuries, want the data – as does The Republic, humanity’s last free government. Data connected to the Philosopher’s Stone experiments, into unlocking the secrets of immortality.Īnd he’s not the only one looking for the derelict ship. Refugee, criminal and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can’t refuse: life in prison, “voluntary” military service – or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it’s destroyed in a supernova. But there are secrets there, terrible secrets that would change the fate of humanity, and eventually someone will come looking.
Far off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium.
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