Reunion (Pip and Flinx Adventure Series #7) Book

There is more than one Reunion in this instalment of the Humanx Commonwealth series, one more obvious than the other.

On his continuing journey of self-discovery, Flinx doubles back on his path and ends up back on Earth again, for the second time (unlike most of us, he wasn't born there). Perhaps it's because of this that this episode didn't grip me as immediately as some of the others. Perhaps it's just because I've read so many of these books back-to-back now, that I'm starting to experience the beginnings of burn-out on the series. Maybe I'm just tired and grumpy! :-)

Flinx doesn't stay on Earth long, though; a piece of evidence he discovers there sends him hurtling out across the universe once more. (He actually obtains this evidence through some rather dubious moral activity which some readers of this book have found to be out of character for Flinx. I'm happy to put it down to his increasing desperation, though; Flinx has never been a saint, after all).

He ends up in the galactic territory of the sinister AAnn race; reptilian, devious and warlike. While it's not good news for our hero, I actually enjoyed having the AAnn so directly involved in Flinx's adventures in this book (and the last, thinking about it) as they'd been a shadowy presence in the background of the series for what seemed like forever. They really take the spotlight here, with several chapters actually being written from the point of view of some of the AAnn characters.

As long time readers of Foster's stuff will know, a new planet means a new menagerie of amazing but credible aliens. Foster's imagination for this sort of thing never ceases to impress me.

Without spoiling anything, I think I'm safe to say that the ending of this book contains some pretty major events that will have a big impact on the series as a whole. I'm really itching to see where this is going now!

P.S. - I had to listen to this chapter on Audible as, for some reason, this book isn't currently available for Kindle (which is how I've been reading the series up 'til now). The narrator does a pretty good job, although his voice for Flinx is a couple of octaves deeper than I'd previously imagined.