That is mainly because a lot of the action in the book felt superfluous and repetitive. There is a lot of action in the book, regardless, the book felt a lot more boring and slower than it should. Simply put: Mal does not think with his dick, which is something I cannot say about Jethro. The one major distinction between Mal and Jethro is that Mal is rational, calm, and is not driven by hormones. Obviously, I cannot help but draw parallels between Jeth and Firefly's captain, Mal.

This book was not a pain to read, but it was obstructed in parts by the idiocy of the main character, Jeth. The plot is action-packed but long-winded, and bored me more than once. The characters are almost exactly the same, only with different ages and names. There will be no surprises, and it will render this book almost obsolete, because Firefly holds so much more complexity and so much more enjoyment than this book. If you have watched the show, you will be able to make a very exact hypothesis regarding the secret. This is Firefly fanfiction under different names.īoy, they weren't kidding when the summary of the book said it is 'a great match for fans of Joss Whedon's cult hit show Firefly.' There are a tremendous amount of similarities, for one, the plot: a ragtag crew of mercenaries set out into space on a beloved spaceship, only to rescue some siblings on the run-one of whom has a secret. But when Jeth finds himself in possession of information that both the crime bosses and the government are willing to kill for, he is going to have to ask himself how far he'll go to get the freedom he's wanted for so long. Jeth doesn't care about the politics or the law all he cares about is earning enough money to buy back his parents' ship, Avalon, from his crime-boss employer and getting himself and his sister, Lizzie, the heck out of Dodge. Jeth Seagrave and his crew of teenage mercenaries have survived in this world by stealing unsecured metatech, and they're damn good at it. That power is derived from one thing: metatech, the devices that allow people to travel great distances faster than the speed of light.

The agencies that govern the Confederation are as corrupt as the crime bosses who patrol it, and power is held by anyone with enough greed and ruthlessness to claim it. Of the various star systems that make up the Confederation, most lie thousands of light-years from First Earth-and out here, no one is free.

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