The Knight

The Last Horizon, Book 3

De: Will Wight

Narrado por: Travis Baldree

Duración: 9 h y 48 m

Resumen del Editor

“As the Knight of The Last Horizon, I challenge you.”

The Last Horizon has already sown new legends across the galaxy, tales of monsters defeated and worlds saved. For better and for worse, their reputation is spreading.

Their enemies have taken notice.

On Karosha, the Perfected gather fleets crewed by inhumanly flawless soldiers. In the Galactic Union, the secretive organization known as Solstice pulls strings in the shadows. And in the depths of Dark Space, after years of silence, the ravenous D’Niss begin to stir.

Raion Raithe, Knight of The Last Horizon, sees these threats as a chance to redeem himself. He will stand against the danger, and he will stand strong, no matter what it costs.

His friends are counting on him.

The Knight is Book Three in a planned six-book series.

©2024 Hidden Gnome Publishing (P)2024 Audible, Inc.

Not bad, so long as you pick it up as an audiobook

So before i start talking about the book, i want to elaborate on the title of my review. I don't think i'd enjoy this book much if not for Travis Baldree giving it that extra omph. The performance really did bring it to life, and gave the characters color and tone.

Now for the book itself, and why i didn't feel it deserved more than 3 stars which is normally reserved for mediocre works that one could take or leave.

While the characters are complex and well developed for this stage of the story. The story itself complex, multilayered, with plenty of elements looping into each other, giving the big galaxy a suitably bustling feeling, there are also problems. Star rating reducing problems.
1.Consistent use of the same tropes. Namely "Not-even-my-final-form" and "Power of friendship". There are more in there, but i'd challenge anyone to write a book with 0 tropes in there and see how far they get. It's never the trope that's the problem, but their implementation. WW is a skilled writer, and i am 110% certain that he knows this to be a possible issue, which is, i'm guessing, why he indeed made a couple of self-aware jokes about the use of the "power of friendship" in the story. The boss fights all coming down to taking down a form after form of an enemy with the MC's resources serving as a perfect hourglass for when is the boss going to run out of new and more powerful forms robbed me of all suspense. (E.G. when MC claimed that he had 62% battery left, with a seemingly dead enemy, I knew exactly what happens next)

2. I also think author spotted this issue, but we are getting very little adventure in our action. There are some dialogue where author seems to be aware of this, and points it out in character's voice, but then we get very little of it. Titanic battles are fine, and i enjoy them, but having all this galaxy to explore while spending 90% of the time either fighting or in dialogue on a ship driving the plot forward is a bit constraining.

Those are my 2 biggest gripes with the story, each worth a star in my mind. The story isn't bad, as I said, especially narrated by one of the best VAs out there, but it's not among the best either. Worth a credit, no doubt, regardless. I am somewhat certain that this is WW's first sci-fi series, and as first effort, this stuff is amazing.

I love this series

I love this series, characters react the way you expect. They're fun and relatable to the point of their character

So much Power!!

Yet another punchy adventure through the galaxy and its many sublines. The next book is likely Pilot and I’m Jazzed for it. Grab your mech-suits and pair to your Zenith devices, it’s gonna be good.

Another Outstanding Entry

I am so utterly in love with this series as an experience that references and expresses genuine affection for many, many different interests spanning super heroes, super robots, cosmic horror, and so much more. This series has me as a fan for life.

The power of friendship

Long live the titan knights, orange forever! A great Follow up to the rest of the series

Another great book

I really liked that we got some of the back story of Raion and Varic’s previous life. The battle arena was the highlight for me. Though the final battle was pretty epic too. The end game plot moved further into the light. Baldree delivers a fantastic performance.

My Little Pony

by the power of friendship, you will read this book and you will love it!

Will Wights next series yet.

excellent reader, fantastic characters, nail biting story. I loved it. can't wait for the next book in the series.

Good background, but a predictable ending

The author has done a great job with developing the crew of the last horizon in this book, but the content feels very rushed, besides this it was a very enjoyable book. The only thing I think could have changed this from another filler book in the series, would be if Will had made the connection between Reaper and this book in the final act, that would have thrown disaster and confusion throughout the story and would have set up the rest of the series to potentially be more substantial. I only hope Will is holding out for a better timing to change the course of this journey.

Holy Crap

Humanizing characters and another absolutely fantastic adventure. I cannot get enough of this series. Already looking forward for the next one.