When Raith gets out of a 20 year prison sentence for cooking the races he has a life-long ban and has no idea what he is going to do. His old crew is dead and racing is his goal and passion. When Olivia meets him once he's released with the offer to race and his own ship it is an offer he can't refuse. However, the Conglomerate, and reason he was cooking the races in the first place, aren't willing to let his debt rest in the past. Can Raith stand this battle of wills to run a clean race or will he be back under someone else's command just like before?
I received this audiobook from the narrator in exchange for an honest review. Initially I was a bit confused why we were focused on another, new, character when in books 1 and 2 it had been about Theren and, to a lesser extent, Jill. About 60% of the way through I looked it up and realized this is a stand-alone novel set in the same universe as First of Their Kind and Their Greatest Game. You can completely read this book without having read Books 1 and 2, however I would suggest reading this before getting started on Book 3. I am 22 minutes into Their Pieces Were Stars and it has already made mention of the race Wraith and Carter ran together in this book.
There is murder, sabotage, and mystery in this race among the stars and I enjoyed this book more than the others set in this universe. Raith was a bit of an arrogant ass at the beginning and still plenty annoying at the end, but the character growth was extreme to say the least. I will say I am a bit sad to see what happened to the crew, but c'est la vie. Who the person putting pressure on Raith was and who they worked for felt a bit obvious to me considering I had read books 1 and 2. If I hadn't I wouldn't have known until the author was ready for us to know.
I can't say that I particularly had a favorite character in this book. I can say that the twins, listening to them on audiobook, was extremely painful. The layering of the two voices simultaneously created a headache whenever they spoke and I can't say I was sad when they were no longer talking. This wouldn't be a problem if reading the book, but that isn't to say the audiobook is bad. It's not. As with all other books I have listened to narrated by Benjamin Fife it has been an entertaining listen if only for the effort he puts into the characters. No matter if I'm bored with the story it's not because of a bad narrator. (No that wasn't the case with this book.)
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