The Relentless Legion

The Divide, Book 3

De: J. S. Dewes

Narrado por: Andrew Eiden, Anthony Rey Perez, Nicol Zanzarella

J. S. Dewes is back with her acclaimed and action-packed Divide series (The Last Watch, The Exiled Fleet) where The Expanse meets the Night's Watch.

This program features multicast narration.

The Sentinels have rallied under the leadership of Adequin Rake, and Cavalon Mercer has uncovered the horrifying genetic solution his grandfather is about to unleash on the unsuspecting outer colonies.

Both Rake and Cavalon race against time to save the universe once again. They'll need every resource, every ally who might answer the call.

It might not be enough.

The Divide Series

The Last Watch

The Exiled Fleet

The Relentless Legion

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

©2024 J. S. Dewes (P)2024 Macmillan Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“The conclusion to “The Divide Series,” after The Exiled Fleet, maintains the action-packed pace and universe-wide setting of the previous books, while keeping the personal connection between the characters at the core of the story. Place this trilogy in the hands of readers who like the “Expanse” series by James S.A. Corey.”—Library Journal

The black glass dash

Love this series so much. Excellent production and readings as usual from Macmillan audio. A great end to such an amazing story.

Dewes killed it, again.

definitely a bit misty eyed. this was a beautiful way to end the first arc of the story and set up the next. I can't wait for the next book, though I say that at the end of every one of these books. platonic love really does keep the world going, and it's beautiful to see that represented and celebrated in literature, especially when romantic love is usually the focus of the 'unlikely duo saves the day' stories.

some small inconsistent pronunciation of a few words between narrators, but that's literally my only complaint. it's probably hardly noticable to anyone but my autistic @$$, though, so NBD.

Brilliant and satisfying end to an excellent story

Outstanding space opera, best I’ve read in a long while. Been waiting for this for so long I had to go back and reread the first two- very much a bonus. Excellent call to add a third voice to the final; all narrators very strong. Can’t recommend this enough!

End of the trilogy?

4.25 stars 🌟

I will say that a very small issue that I had with this book in particular was that it just completely continued onward from where it left off in the previous book. I know this is something that is quite common. Why is that an issue for me in this particular book? Well, because I read a LOT of books and there was quite a lengthy time period in between books for me. There wasn't ANY kind of overview or summary (not that I want the author to re-go over things that just occurred, but some authors can expertly throw in small things that can help the reader get back to the same head space in that particular story and world). In this series, there are a TON of things that are happening and quite a few characters that are main and center. All this to say that I felt a little lost when starting this book. But, to be fair - that was my fault. I could have easily reread my review, gone back and read the book summary - so, it is just a comment - not necessarily a bad thing.

So, to this book. This is the third and final book in this really interesting series and when I mentioned that things take off from the beginning, things definitely take off. What we learned in the last book was that there were HUGE issues in the surrounding universes and those universes were collapsing, and apparently, the universe of our main characters was the place everyone was trying to escape to. Not to mention the fact that our guys were fighting against a really bad evil character - the head of the largest pharmaceutical companies -who was doing his own form of eugenics and trying to kill off most of humanity in his own way to basically start over in the way he envisioned and creating a "better" race. The more we learned about this man, the more we realized that there wasn't ANYTHING that was off limits to him. Even going to the extent of cloning himself and passing the clones off as his own son and grandson. The man truly was evil.

So- things started from there and we had our gang of characters trying to find a way to save the human race. No biggie, right?

There is so much going on in so many different areas. There is Cavalon Mercer (the grandson) going off on an expedition to try to find research from an old and different species. Then there was Jackin and his storyline dealing with his captivity and torture. We also got to follow along with Adequin Rake- the leader who never wanted to be a leader - as she tried to figure out how in the world she was going to be able to build and lead the resistance.

There was definitely a lot of action. In the end, I think there were some things that were not resolved and we were left with several questions, but for the most part it kept my interest and made me definitely root for our "good guys."

I listened to this almost completely on audio and enjoyed the trio of narrators. The one thing that I was not clear about at the end was if there was going to be another book - even now I'm not sure. Would I continue on with this series? Absolutely.

A-Ok

I enjoyed the listen. The VAs crushed it, certainly. Although the story has one of those resolutions that kind of make you wonder where all the steps to get there went. Mostly, I noticed a lot, maybe nearly all the sci-fi elements just sort of quit about half way through. You're still in the setting sure, but there's a lot less air lock breaching, mini-sun making and sci-fi military action going after a certain point and I was well past it in the story before I really noticed. Which is fine, more on myself maybe, it adjusted my perspective on the series a bit and I think I thought I was reading/listening to a different kind of story. It's much less military sci-fi action and intrigue and a lot more character growth journey/ relationship dynamics focused, maybe a point in its favor for most.

Exceeded Very High Expectations!

I liked The Last Watch very much and was absolutely captivated by The Exiled Fleet. It’s exceedingly rare to have two narrators so perfectly embody the characters. I’ve been impatiently waiting for the third in the trilogy. and a little apprehensive that it couldn’t live up to expectations. Moreover, adding and voicing Jackin as a third equal protagonist was a daunting challenge. JS Dewes did it. All of it. I’m invested in these people because they had depth, flaws, and growing emotional intelligence. I mourned Puck and mourn for Mesa’s loss. Please don’t settle for a Netflix series. This needs to be a Star Wars level, theatrical trilogy!

"divided" between meh and ok....

I felt like this story was going to build a huge Sci fi world/ universe. Instead I felt like it was phoned in about half way thru.

while I enjoy, not milking a story or characters dry, to drag out a series. I felt everything was just rushed and a meh ( to be continued) open ending, just in case author wants to come revisit the series.

Hells yeah!

been waiting for years for this one. I reread the first two just to remind myself of everything that happened. It is an excellent combination of science fiction and political entry. Love the narrators in this one, love the story. And the characters are all characters I care about.

What happened Dewes?

it's like you put off writing until the last week before it was due. Abandoned several plot points. introduced a few new ones. Gave a brand new one, wrote nothing about it, then abandoned it a couple chapters later.

Not to mention the 7 hours of backstory you dropped into the beginning of the third book.
And the ending....

What happened Dewes?

I absolutely loved the first two in the series and encourage others to read them. Not this though. I almost never say this but wow, that was bad.

Sorry for the harsh review but this needed to be said. I hope everything is well with you.

Worst of the Trilogy

Bad pacing, flattened characters, side characters basically gone. And the weird forced romance between jack and Adequin. Sad I was so excited for this book I reread the first two installments