The Lost Relic

Lost Starship Series, Book 17

De: Vaughn Heppner

Narrado por: Mark Boyett

Captain Maddox is marooned on a harsh alien planet 6000 light years from Earth. He struggles alone, desperate to survive, knowing that failure will forever cost him his wife and daughter.

But there’s more at stake than Maddox’s life. In the planet is a relic of unimaginable power and the secret to the Builders’ demise. The Mastermind has sent Iris, his human lover, and a team of intelligent canine killers, to retrieve the relic for his greatness.

Here, in a strangely dampened star system, the crew of Victory faces its cruelest challenge, battling entities thousands of years old to end a war begun long ago.

The Lost Relic is book 17 in the Lost Starship series, a star-spanning saga of deadly space war and planetary struggles as told by millions-best-selling author Vaughn Heppner.

©2022 Vaughn Heppner (P)2023 Vaughn Heppner

good listen. .

nice way to pass a dozen hours on a Transpacific flight... well worth the purchase ...

"Reminds me of"...Junior High writing class

One reviewer described the writing style in this book as "sophomoric". I disagree; it is pre-adolescent. Pre-teen is certainly its target audience, but kids books are OK, if you recognize they're is not supposed be great literature, or even good SciFi...😏

too much Christian propaganda for science fi

too much Christian propaganda 🙄. Why does the main character start to become Christian?. is very disappointing.

Sophomoric at best.

I’ve been joyed all of the previous books, but this one seems like it was written by a high school student, trying to impress someone if they can follow a story. The dialogue with terrible. The characters were inept and shallow. Nowhere near the quality of most of the previous books. I’m not sure what happened, but it doesn’t seem like this was written by the same person.

Loved it!

Great story! Lots of good sci-fi fun. Looking forward to the next book. Keep it coming

lost relic

wait was a good story .I enjoyed listening to it. but I hate that the series is coming to a end the character are really enjoyable to story line is alway really good

Awesome, as always

Another awesome Maddax adventure seems this series just keeps getting better and better. Hoping for plenty more to come!!

He’s still got it!

I really appreciate this series. Honestly VH could continue writing these books forever and I’d keep buying them.

How to ruin a great story

This was the 17th book I've listened to in this series. The story has been compelling enough to keep me coming back.
BUT...
1. There is not one single charming / like-able character in the entire series. None of them have a sense of humor.

2. You could play Lost Starship Bingo with squares for:
-Maddox says he misses Metta (sp?) and his "precious" Jewel
-Someone prays
- Christian metaphysics is referenced
-A character reminds another of their military rank
-Characters bicker over trivial matters
-Maddox says "I am Captain Maddox"
-etc

I really had a struggle getting through this book. It is just not a fun listen once we get into the interpersonal dialogues. Hell, even the internal character monologues are a slog to wade through.
The overall story arc is the only compelling feature of the series.
I'm might very well be done with all things Heppner (this and his AI series) unless he learns how to write like-able characters.

A bumbling mess

This has been one of the hardest books to get through in a very long time. I listen to these books while I commute usually books, make the time pass by quickly this one made it very hard. I got about an hour or two into it at a time before I had to switch to something else, I think I finish this book more out of a force of will then actually enjoying it. It was so repetitive and not at one point is not excited about anything happening. As much as I enjoyed the core beginning of these books, this is the last book of Captain Maddox that I will be reading.