Living Starship 1

The Last Symbiotes, Book 1

By: Dante King

Narrated by: Heather Stonewell, Wayne Kelly

Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

Captain James Decker has lived a life of hunting, killing, and earning credits.

To some, it hasn’t amounted to much, but to him, it’s led to him captaining the SC Fortune, a space cruiser with a competent crew that he’s grown fond of.

After accepting a bounty hunting mission with a beautiful blonde woman as the mark, Decker finds himself soon without a ship and a crew. But as luck would have it, this same mission gives him back what he lost: a new ship and a new crew.

This ship is composed of what seems like organic material, and the sole crew member he finds on board is the same beautiful blonde whose bounty he took.

Turns out that this woman is what is known to very few as a symbiote, and she’s one of the last ones left. She has a mission for Decker: seek out her sisters and bring them all together. While not a typical mission for Decker, the symbiote’s request, should he honor it, will lead to more credits than any planet president, let alone bounty hunter, has laid eyes on.

It’ll mean becoming captain of a new ship, a living starship, and seeking out the last symbiotes all the way to the cosmic horizon.

This book contains unconventional relationships.

©2022 Dante King (P)2023 Podium Audio

One of the authors better books

I have written many books by Dante King. This is definitely one of the better ones. I enjoyed the strip description for each of the characters the action was good, but not overwhelming, and you could easily route for MC
The narrator’s were also excellent, and brought real emotion to the characters

Unique take

This is a unique take on the idea of a living ship. Not sure where the author came up with the concept but it works in the story arc

Impressive

love the story only thing is probally add 2 more voice actors to give it better range but otherwise impressive

Narration and internal monolog !!

the MC voice is crap! who said, "Oh yeah, this voice is good"? he should have just used his regular narrator voice. it's obvious that he is struggling to maintain a deep, raspy tone. which, by the way, makes the MC sound old man passed his prime. the inner monolog is excessive to the point I skip past it. probably could have cut 2 hours out of the story. the intimate scenes are short, not very creative, and the MC is a one & done kinda guy.

Not really worth a credit

The male narrator is monotone through the entire book and has a lot of mispronunciations. Female narrator did a good job though.

The story builds intensity then stops it all when the mc veers off into bombastic bloviating statements.

Meh.

Story had potential. But the writing was a bit weak and predictable, and I found the characters saying things that didn't make sense. And, unfortunately, the narrator of the main character made him sound mad and pissed off, even when he was supposed to be happy. Usually I try to stick it out to see where the series will go, but not this time. They tried to make a cliff hanger at the end, but didn't build any of that till the last chapter. Too little, too late.