Reviews for L.P.M.

The average rating for L.P.M. based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-02 00:00:00 Max Greenland This one seems to have had fewer twists and turns than the previous one but that's perfectly okay. Instead, we have the continuing quest to find out just where Flinx came from. His mother, having been found in the previous volume, only leads to a missing father. Just how messed up could *that* quest get? Pretty messed up. First of all, Flinx has an amazing talent for killing random people for good reasons at extremely unfortunate times. We could blame most of that on Pip, but Flinx is always putting himself in unwelcome positions. Enter assassins. Multi-world, organized, extremely powerful assassins. Add an idea where to find the mysterious personage who tried and failed to purchase the kid he was on the slave block, a weird-ass alien who is the main target for said assassins, and we've got a cool recipe for adventure. Again. I'm surprised it works as well as it does. Or maybe not. Maybe I should just trust ADF from now on. :) So yeah, an ancient civilization or two, lots of ruins and a jungle, an armada of dangerous and deadly aliens, and a rogue black hole ravaging tons of systems. That also happens. And spoilers aside... Woah. Hell yeah. Woah. COOL, MAN. :) So sure, we can call this YA but it's pretty awesome for us SF freaks, too. Good astrophysics, great backstory, lots of worldbuilding, and great characters and baseline story that tends to go nuts with even bigger things happening all around him. Can we blame Flinx? No. Really, we can't. He just happens to have a preternatural talent for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has his own goals. They just happen to have AMAZING unintended consequences. Yay! ADVENTURE. :)

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-17 00:00:00 Art Schwarm It's very difficult to review this book without spoilers, as pivotal events and discoveries are made thick and fast. With this in mind, this review will be brief. Suffice it to say that Flinx, having found his biological mother and discovered a half-sister he didn't know he had, is now searching for clues as to the identity of his biological father. This search takes him to the home planet of his minidrag companion, Pip, which is really nice as we haven't visited this world before in this series. What he doesn't know (at first) is that he is being pursued by assassins... and other interested parties. Flinx also has no way of knowing that he's going to have to try to save two entire worlds from a rogue collapsar before he gets any answers. Shouldn't be too difficult, then. The action never really lets up in this book; the pace never slows and there are at least three great plot twists along the way. Flinx makes new friends, one of whom in particular is very entertaining (although I can see how some people might find him annoying). Also, some familiar faces from previous volumes turn up, most unexpectedly, which had me grinning from ear to ear. For those of you who are new to this series, I wouldn't recommend starting with this book. Foster is pretty good at the skilful, non-laboured recap, but I still think anyone trying to dive into the series here would be confused as to what's going on. For those of us who have read the previous volumes, though, this is a really strong entry in the series and is an extremely entertaining romp through the galaxy... with some astrophysics thrown in for good measure.