Name: Nicole Lambert's review of Nexus by Lindsay Cummings
Item: Nexus
Rating: 5
Author: Nicole Lambert

Lindsay Cummings

Sasha Alsberg

#1 New York Times bestselling authors Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings deliver the dazzling finale to the acclaimed Androma Saga, where stunning betrayals and devastating secrets send an embattled galaxy spiraling into the ultimate nightmare. Her ship is gone, her crew is captured and notorious mercenary Androma Racella is no longer the powerful Bloody Baroness, but a fugitive ruthlessly hunted across the Mirabel Galaxy. The bloodthirsty Queen Nor now rules most of the galaxy through a mind-control toxin and she'll stop at nothing to destroy her most hated adversary. Andi will risk anything, even her precious freedom, to find a cure. Stranded with her unlikely ally, Dex, on the unforgiving ice planet of Solera, their plan to infiltrate a black-market city proves dangerously irresistible. Back in Arcardius, Nor's actions have opened Mirabel to invasion. As Andi's crew fights to regain their freedom, Andi and Dex discover a threat far greater than anything they've faced before. Only by saving their mortal enemy can the crew of the Marauder make one last desperate strike to save the galaxy--unaware that a shattering, centuries-old secret may demand the most wrenching sacrifice of all.

Nexus

abbey

Nicole Lambert

The first book did not do this book justice.

I know that usually it is the other way around, but this book was so much better written than Zenith ever was that I found myself for once actually caring about the characters. Unlike the first book, I was invested in the story from the very first page, and I appreciated how this one did not deviate into a bunch of side plots like the first one did. Had Zenith been written more like Nexus, this would have proved to be a very intriguing saga that would have consisted more than just two books.

The one thing that I would like to note is that you do not need to read Zenith before reading Nexus. I have read both and therefore find myself comparing the two of them, but Nexus does a good enough job of explaining what happened in Zenith that you do not need to go into Nexus having read the book that came before it. Nexus's plot also is much better than Zenith, and now that I think back on it, Zenith had led the readers to believe that the motivations of Nor and Valen concerned saving Xen Ptera. However, that turned out not to be the case in Nexus, and I would have appreciated more of the hinting at Exonia in Zenith as well as Klaren's true motivations. Even Klaren's motivations in Zenith did not make sense to me, whereas they did in Nexus.

There was still a little bit of unnatural dialogue in Nexus as well as those weird hell metaphors, but the writing and world building was ultimately much better. It was refreshing to see how much Alsberg has improved as a writer and an author, and it makes me want to visit Cumming's previous works to see how much she has grown as well. The one content-related issue I found was that apparently in Mirabel, there is life on gas planets, more notably A'exal. Gas planets most likely do not have a surface, and that combined with the massive amount of gravity would make life virtually impossible.

Overall, even though I would not recommend Zenith, I highly recommend Nexus to anyone who loves action-packed, sci-fi adventures. I just wish that Zenith had the same fluid writing that Nexus has and that the world therefore had more books in the series than just two, but unfortunately that did not happen even though I know that that was the authors' original intent. I will also gladly read whatever books these authors release in the future in order to see how much they continue to improve over the years.

Paige Green

Disclaimer: I bought this book to make my friend happy and review it. I would say you owe me, but you did buy me a book I wanted so I say we're even.

Book: Nexus

Author: Sasha Alsberg and Lindsey Cummings

Book Series: The Androma Saga Book 2

Rating: 1/5

Recommended For...: No one

Publication Date: May 7, 2019

Publisher: Inkyard Press

Pages: 544

Recommended Age: can't recommend, dnf

Synopsis: Her ship is gone, her crew is captured and notorious mercenary Androma Racella is no longer the powerful Bloody Baroness, but a fugitive ruthlessly hunted across the Mirabel Galaxy. The bloodthirsty Queen Nor now rules most of the galaxy through a mind-control toxin and she’ll stop at nothing to destroy her most hated adversary.

Andi will risk anything, even her precious freedom, to find a cure. Stranded with her unlikely ally, Dex, on the unforgiving ice planet of Solera, their plan to infiltrate a black-market city proves dangerously irresistible.

Back in Arcardius, Nor’s actions have opened Mirabel to invasion. As Andi’s crew fights to regain their freedom, Andi and Dex discover a threat far greater than anything they’ve faced before.

Only by saving their mortal enemy can the crew of the Marauder make one last desperate strike to save the galaxy—unaware that a shattering, centuries-old secret may demand the most wrenching sacrifice of all.

Review: I had to DNF this book at 60%. Upon opening the book I had instant PTSD from the first book. The first book was awful and this one didn't improve much more from it. The characters were flat and uninteresting. They're also obvious copies of other famous YA characters to the point that I wonder how much of their "development" was just straight up pulled from other works. The book doesn't do anything to set the appropriate mood for the theme of it. The science in this book is so superbly flawed and inaccurate that I wonder if the authors ever did any research to begin with. The world building was atrocious and underdeveloped. The romance... ugh, so tropey. I also thought the storyline didn't have any uniqueness to it. I felt like I read a better version of this book somewhere else and that I was beta reading this one. Basically, this book was so awful but I'm glad that the two authors didn't try to lie about it's spot on the NYT bestseller list, post fake reviews, or use their positions to get fake reviews. That, at least, is some improvement.

Verdict: One of the very few books I don't recommend.

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