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There is the occasional logical issue or strange fact that I'm pretty sure is wrong. But the story is very good. The characters are well developed and fun. It has space ships, and laser guns, and humanoid aliens as well as weird-ugly aliens. There is a good past vs future element. There are multiple villains. There are good twists. And there is a funny and well constructed story. It is a fun space opera sci-fi adventure and I highly recommend it.
Yahtzee Croshaw has a serious feel for spoof, satire, and ridiculous fight scenes. I can’t even remember the real name of the main character of this star-pilot deconstruction story and the earlier one, or if we were ever told what it is—but it doesn’t matter. He’s a FANTASTIC character, as are his “friends,” and if there isn’t another book about him soon, I’m going to have to climb through a Quantunnel and stand over Croshaw with my blaster till he writes one.
5.0 out of 5 starsWhat Keeps Me Coming Back To Audible
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2022
I don't keep a constant Audible subscription, but I gotta have my Yahtzee Croshaw. I got Will Save The Galaxy For Food years ago when I had a horrible eye infection and couldn't read (that's a good way to make you appreciate audiobooks!) and fell in love with his narrative delivery. I'm also a Zero Punctuation fan, so I'm very used to that wonderfully snarky voice.
The sequel is a great continuation of the story that thankfully doesn't feel like a "reset button". The events from the first book still feel like they mattered, and consequences and actions carry over into this book wonderfully, but of course I won't spoil anything. I just wanted to express the importance of not feeling like a "reset button", since a lot of Science Fiction resorts to that feeling where past events don't really matter in later stories (looking at you, Next Generation).
And on a personal note, I don't normally care for heist stories since I find them rather formulaic, but I didn't have that problem with that in this book at all. The heist doesn't take up too much of the book, there are some turns with "character specialists" that break the formulaic cliché for me (thank you!), and best of all it takes place during a dorky convention where plenty of awkward events take place, and I especially love how our "hero" rudely handles annoying fanboys. As someone who made an effort never to be "that guy" at comic conventions, I appreciated those details.
There's just something about Yahtzee's style that resonates with me, and his vocal delivery has me happily choose audiobook over a physical copy. Although it does indeed leave the problem that I never know how to spell all the characters' names just right.
Welcome back to the exciting world of Jacque Makeown, or rather the guy impersonating him previously. The world is the same bleak outlook and the chaos that comes back in is hilarious and enjoyable but occasionally highly frustrating. The reality of the damage of star pilots is very starkly shown but the mental break of the main character show he is not ready to accept it. Give us book 3 please.
After reading to an listening to Yahtzee's other novels, it was a must have. I have enjoyed all of them to no end. Mogworld and Jam being my favourites. After his "Zero Punctuation" reviews had an advert by himself for Jam I was lost in his worlds. It always makes a book better when it is read by the author as they express the characters in the way they wanted then to come across. So the Audible content Yahtzee provides is excellent. Plus he is sarcastic as all hell so his characters are usually the same.
I enjoy this book and I will love rereading the book. I like the adventure with the funny part. I have a lot of fun and I enjoy the book with the story fun to read.