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Will Leave the Galaxy for Good

Jacques McKeown, Book 3

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Will Leave the Galaxy for Good

By: Yahtzee Croshaw
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Jacques McKeown is the most celebrated author of star-pilot fiction in the galaxy. He's rich, famous, and living in luxury, and his universe-wide fanbase eagerly awaits any news of his next book.

There's just one small hitch.

He's not Jacques McKeown.

He's Dashford Pierce, star pilot and con artist, and if only the impatient calls from his publisher were the worst of his problems. There's also the last vestige of the Henderson crime gang, trouble brewing in the retired star-pilot community, and a small matter of somebody trying to kill him.

As his web of lies falls apart and the crosshairs zero in, Pierce has no other option but to take one last adventure. An odyssey to the very edge of known space to finally answer the question that has twisted up his life for five years: Just who is Jacques McKeown?

©2024 Yahtzee Croshaw (P)2024 Audible Originals, LLC. Adventure Science Fiction
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Yet again Yahtzee has told a very relevant story pertaining to modern day.

I was gripped from start to finish and listened to it all in one go.

Absolutely worth it and for fans of the other book series and his other work will get a kick out of the Easter eggs.

Absolutely plying wonderful

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Enjoyable and interesting plotline that ties together the entire series well. While Pierce/McKeown is entertaining as always, much of this book felt like a near-continuous monologue from him - with much less of the acerbic or guileless foils provided by other characters I had grown to know and like. Warden in particular just …wilted, which was disappointing for a worthy and feisty female lead. Still worth a listen for fans of the series. The excellent review left by Caelin gives more detail if desired.

Good plot, but I missed the previous supporting cast

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you glorious b*stard way to tie it all off with a really neat bow. 10/10 hurry up and write more books (in general).

that ending!

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So far all of his book have been amazing and this is no excepting, like the concept love the story and got that humour that made zero punctuation a staple of my weekly YouTube watch till it ended that is

Yahtzee out does himself again

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If this is truly the end of the saga, I’d be dishonest if I’d say it didn’t bother me. Love the Saga and would love a continuation of it. Good job Yahtzee

Amazing sequel

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i've been a fan of yahtzees stuff since the early 2010s at least, and I absoloutely love his stuff. The Mckeown series is probably my favourite thing he's done so far, and I'm honestly a bit sad this is the last we'll see of these characters. There's definitely a pretty noticeable progression in his writing, and where his first books, could occasionally drag a little in the mid-sections, his more recent stuff has gone a lot better with pacing and keeping things interesting, but I think this book is a bit of an overcorrection in that department. I really enjoy watching the way he meticulously lays out all the individual pieces of a puzzle, carefully lines things up, then brings everything crashing together by the end, and I was definitely gripped by this story, but my major issue with this book was that it's a little too focused on laying out those pieces at the expense of the story. During the first half of this story feels a bit too much like you're watching a magician setting up his props before an act. I'm still interested to see how he brings everything together, but i'm not exactly on the edge of my seat, and it's killing my immersion a bit.
The brutally efficient nature of the story also means we don't get much time with any of the characters we've grown to love over the past few books, which is a real shame. the only character who really gets any development is the lead, and even that feels a bit shallow. unlike in previous books, most of his choices here are passive. he doesn't really actively choose to save the try to run away like in previous books, he just does the only thing that makes sense given his circumstances, and his final decision is basically the only one he has left short of just going off to live off the land on some alien world with no technology.

The pseudo-horror stuff happening on the ship was so interesting conceptually, but i feel like it needed more of a gradual buildup as the characters slowly realised what was going on alongside the reader. instead, the other characters basically scream the it into the MC's face from the moment he walks onto the ship and the audience is pretty immediately aware of what's going on, but the MC, characterised so far as being pretty quick on the update, is suddenly rendered into a moron and takes several exhausting pages to catch on to what's happening.
overall, it feels like this book had a specific point it wanted to get to, and tried work backwards from there, but then added so many steps in between that it didn't have any room left for the characters, or any creative ideas left for worldbuilding. the final reveal was a really interesting concept, but i feel it was underserved by being placed into the story a little too late.

With all of that said, the book is still very much characterised by yahtzee's wit and sattirical edge, and those aspects deinitely serve to hold the reasders attenion in spite of the other deficiencies. the humor is excellent, and despite how negative this review seems i did have a blast listening to this story.

A decent book, but a little overtrimmed

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As the final chapter in the Jacques McKeown series, Yahtzee takes readers on a wild ride that feels simultaneously utterly out of control and yet precisely coordinated… winding tighter and tighter as it hurtles to an imperceptible conclusion like a galaxial Fibonacci sequence. Brilliant.

The Perfect McKeown-clusion!

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love the ending to this trilogy. love the blend of star trek and red dwarf

great climax

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The middle part lost me a bit but boy did I still have a good time

Fantastic ending

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will leave the galaxy for good is snappy dry and utterly sarcastic in all the best ways. it says a lot even if it's sounding like it doesn't give a toss.

arguably the best of the three

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