I continued in 2024 where I left off in 2023 – with Marie Andreas’ second Sci-Fi trilogy. The book doesn’t see as much action as the previous one(s) but delves deeper into the backstory.

Vas and her crew was, at the end of the previous book, stranded on a deserted planet featuring a neglected space station. Fortunately, as they expected the downtime for repairs before their ship was stolen, they saved most of their tech and supplies. Vas resumes her training as a Keeper in the hopes of eventually re-founding the Clionea order. The abandoned space station starts proving challenging, though, as problems pop up.

Vas eventually manages to obtain a ship when an enemy force attacks her – but, once again, they’re eventually forced to leave in haste as a shady merchant in a ship that defies what is known about space travel tech – and learning that the station’s underground is full of unstable experimental fuel.

The crew also faces trouble from sentient nanites – who eventually ask Vas for help: the Clionea order has kept more than just the Asarlaí at bay, and now these forces are back to take over the universe. This pushes Vas to get back to her search for the deceased Pirate of Boagada while learning more of the Order’s past (and confirming that Deven, her second-in-command, had held the position decades ago for a brief time).

Worse, another person is searching for the pirate’s resting place. At the very end, Vas has to fight for it, but she manages to recover the former pirate’s memories. But it’s clear that things are far from over yet…

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Read date: January 2024 (finished 22nd, start date unknown)
Published: 27. 2. 2022
Goodreads/Amazon rating: 4,51/4,4
My rating: 80%
Length: 434 pages
My highlights

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This book was, quite untypically, much heavier on the backstory than the other books, which wasn’t a bad thing, just somewhat unexpected change of pace.

Despite this book being out for two years already, it seems I’ll have to wait for the finale – the book mentions the ETA for book three in late 2023, but by January 2024, it has yet to be released.