Stars & Stripes

Watch Dogs: Legion, Book 2

By: Sean Grigsby, Stewart Hotston

Narrated by: Michael Braun

Older, but not necessarily wiser, Aiden Pearce, “the Fox”, is a rolling stone, surviving by moving from one shadowy hacker job to the next. While in Baltimore, he’s captured by a mysterious agent who insists finding missing cargo full of transhuman tech is something only Pearce can do. When flattery doesn’t work, he’s blackmailed into taking the job. Worse, he’s partnered again with the unscrupulous Jordi Chin. Soon what looks like a simple investigation spirals into a nefarious plot leading all the way to the White House. Yet why should Aiden help a country that only wants him behind bars? For the Vigilante, no one escapes hard justice--not even Uncle Sam.

©2022 Sean Grigsby (P)2022 Recorded Books

A Watchdogs Story with Little Tech and an Angry Narrator

This book feels like it was written as something else and turned into a Watchdogs story after the fact. I'm new to Watchdogs but, from what I've played, it's strengths come from its technology heavy world. When hero, Aiden Pierce, is pulled into a mystery the government can't seem to solve, you'd think it would be for his tech abilities, yeah? No, he's gonna go against Hillbillies that don't use Wi-Fi. I'm only half way through so it may get better but I can't get past the narration. He's doing an okay job but, the whole time, he sounds like he has a chip on his shoulder; like a teenager who got grounded for smoking behind the gym. Eight hours of that is a lot to ask of anyone, even if the story was good, which it isn't.