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Honor Lost concludes the Honors series that began with Honor Among Thieves. It picks up immediately where Honor Bound left off, and this whole book follows the gang as they try to defeat the Lifekiller, the nearly undefeatable “god-king” alien. It’s already laid waste to a few planets in minutes and they can’t bear to see any more species or planets killed.
Zara has gotten a lot more comfortable in who she is and in her bond with her alien “living ship,” Nadim. She has also become friends with not just Bea, her other “Honor” from Earth, but with some other species of seafarers who have joined her and Nadim and the elder Leviathan Typhon. As the books go along, we get to know the Bruqvisz warriors, led by Suncross, as Zara does. They’re pretty entertaining: lizard-like aliens with four arms who love to celebrate any victory by dancing and getting drunk. Add in the alien Starcurrent, who has tagged along on Nadim for a while, and it rounds out the friends of the cause.
Zara had also allowed on board an enemy who is one of the dangerous Phage who devour ships and anything in their way, and she’s felt that it’s been helpful. But that conviction is seriously tested for a lot of this part of the story.
It all gets tied up at the end of Honor Lost, and is a satisfying conclusion.
This book also brings the love story to full flowering, which honestly I could have done without.
At the end of this trilogy, I am perfectly fine with the amount of material in the three books and am ready to move on to other books and series.
Rated: High. Profanity includes 12 uses of strong language, around 85 instances of moderate profanity, 185 uses of mild language, and a dozen instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content includes some kissing scenes, a scene of self-pleasuring, and a sex scene with minimal erotic detail.
