Absolutely plying wonderful

Yet again Yahtzee has told a very relevant story pertaining to modern day.

I was gripped from start to finish and listened to it all in one go.

Absolutely worth it and for fans of the other book series and his other work will get a kick out of the Easter eggs.

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Good plot, but I missed the previous supporting cast

Enjoyable and interesting plotline that ties together the entire series well. While Pierce/McKeown is entertaining as always, much of this book felt like a near-continuous monologue from him - with much less of the acerbic or guileless foils provided by other characters I had grown to know and like. Warden in particular just …wilted, which was disappointing for a worthy and feisty female lead. Still worth a listen for fans of the series. The excellent review left by Caelin gives more detail if desired.

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A decent book, but a little overtrimmed

i've been a fan of yahtzees stuff since the early 2010s at least, and I absoloutely love his stuff. The Mckeown series is probably my favourite thing he's done so far, and I'm honestly a bit sad this is the last we'll see of these characters. There's definitely a pretty noticeable progression in his writing, and where his first books, could occasionally drag a little in the mid-sections, his more recent stuff has gone a lot better with pacing and keeping things interesting, but I think this book is a bit of an overcorrection in that department. I really enjoy watching the way he meticulously lays out all the individual pieces of a puzzle, carefully lines things up, then brings everything crashing together by the end, and I was definitely gripped by this story, but my major issue with this book was that it's a little too focused on laying out those pieces at the expense of the story. During the first half of this story feels a bit too much like you're watching a magician setting up his props before an act. I'm still interested to see how he brings everything together, but i'm not exactly on the edge of my seat, and it's killing my immersion a bit.
The brutally efficient nature of the story also means we don't get much time with any of the characters we've grown to love over the past few books, which is a real shame. the only character who really gets any development is the lead, and even that feels a bit shallow. unlike in previous books, most of his choices here are passive. he doesn't really actively choose to save the try to run away like in previous books, he just does the only thing that makes sense given his circumstances, and his final decision is basically the only one he has left short of just going off to live off the land on some alien world with no technology.

The pseudo-horror stuff happening on the ship was so interesting conceptually, but i feel like it needed more of a gradual buildup as the characters slowly realised what was going on alongside the reader. instead, the other characters basically scream the it into the MC's face from the moment he walks onto the ship and the audience is pretty immediately aware of what's going on, but the MC, characterised so far as being pretty quick on the update, is suddenly rendered into a moron and takes several exhausting pages to catch on to what's happening.
overall, it feels like this book had a specific point it wanted to get to, and tried work backwards from there, but then added so many steps in between that it didn't have any room left for the characters, or any creative ideas left for worldbuilding. the final reveal was a really interesting concept, but i feel it was underserved by being placed into the story a little too late.

With all of that said, the book is still very much characterised by yahtzee's wit and sattirical edge, and those aspects deinitely serve to hold the reasders attenion in spite of the other deficiencies. the humor is excellent, and despite how negative this review seems i did have a blast listening to this story.

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The Perfect McKeown-clusion!

As the final chapter in the Jacques McKeown series, Yahtzee takes readers on a wild ride that feels simultaneously utterly out of control and yet precisely coordinated… winding tighter and tighter as it hurtles to an imperceptible conclusion like a galaxial Fibonacci sequence. Brilliant.

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Best book in the series!

For the first 3/4 of the book I would have said it made a good but short book in the series. Sometimes the sudden twists and turns where abrupt and Jim Theis would have loved some of the adjectives. Then came the last portion of the book. I often complain that I enjoy a story but it's ruined by the end. This one ends in a classic Yahtzee/Star Trek style. The references, breaking of the 4th wall and the critique of AI and modern literature. 9/10, needed more Civious.

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Lively and fun

Another space jaunt filled with rollicking action and adventure and twists and turns and comes to a satisfying ending

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that ending!

you glorious b*stard way to tie it all off with a really neat bow. 10/10 hurry up and write more books (in general).

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Yahtzee out does himself again

So far all of his book have been amazing and this is no excepting, like the concept love the story and got that humour that made zero punctuation a staple of my weekly YouTube watch till it ended that is

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Another Great Book

Another great book from Yahtzee, Great story, Well Worth the money. 5 out of 5

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Great!

Just as much fun as the last two, and a great send off for the series.

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