Better Than The First… By A Little
3.5 out of 5 stars
Lifeboat is one of those rare cases that I like the second book more than the first. I wasn’t a huge fan of the first book and this book does suffer from some of the same issues that I had, but it did get better.
The intro of this story basically revolves around slowly losing his mind. It was a crazy journey and I was worried that it was going to drag on a little bit like the first one. It did for a little while, but the pace picked up and made this book much easier to read. The main character grew on me a bit too, I didn’t think that he would – but I liked him a lot more in Lifeboat.
Some of the issues that I had with this book were that it just seemed to drag on a little bit longer than it needed it. Sure it’s supposed to be this epic space tale but you can summarize and shorten some of the sequences to make the book a little easier to read/finish.
I can tell that Savage learned from writing the first book and added them to Lifeboat because it did grow – both in pacing and in storytelling. I look forward to seeing what other tales that he writes after Lifeboat (in series or not).
Book Description:
Lifeboat: Earth's Last Gambit Book 2 by Felix R. SavageNarrator: John Lee
Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
Series: Earth's Last Gambit #2
Published by Tantor Audio on June 20th 2017
Genres: Science Fiction, Technothriller
Also by this author: Freefall
Also in this series: Freefall
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Its always nice when you can actually witness the author’s growth from one book to the next.