3.5
Coup de Grâce
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The Serenity crew land on the remote moon of Abel for a lucrative job but becomes embroiled in a young woman’s quest for vengeance and a starving frontier town’s fight for survival. Join Mal and the gang in this enthralling original tie-in novel from the award-winning series.
The Serenity crew head to Yell City, one of the settlements on Abel, a moon in the Rim. Their job:
track down the killers of a local lawyer shot dead in the streets by a local gang. Their client is Annie
Roberts, the eighteen year old daughter of the murdered man.
Lucky for them, Annie Roberts is more than capable of handling herself. Unlucky for them, the job is lot more complicated than they first think. Annie’s father is not just the victim of local gang violence, but the target of some powerful men.
Taking down a local gang is one thing, but cleaning up a whole city? That’s not a job for the Serenity
crew. But when their ship is impounded, and Mal and the crew find themselves trapped in Yell City,
they realise they are already in deeper than they could have ever imagined…
The Serenity crew head to Yell City, one of the settlements on Abel, a moon in the Rim. Their job:
track down the killers of a local lawyer shot dead in the streets by a local gang. Their client is Annie
Roberts, the eighteen year old daughter of the murdered man.
Lucky for them, Annie Roberts is more than capable of handling herself. Unlucky for them, the job is lot more complicated than they first think. Annie’s father is not just the victim of local gang violence, but the target of some powerful men.
Taking down a local gang is one thing, but cleaning up a whole city? That’s not a job for the Serenity
crew. But when their ship is impounded, and Mal and the crew find themselves trapped in Yell City,
they realise they are already in deeper than they could have ever imagined…
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3.5
“I've been enjoying this series as each entry really captures that essence of Firefly, but this has been the weakest addition. It's not bad (and although the book isn't really 2 stars, it's certainly not 3), but the first-person narration doesn't fit the tale. I appreciated what McCormack was trying to do, and the idea of seeing the Firefly crew from the perspective of an outsider is interesting, but the story is so complex and has a number of moving parts that it really fumbles at points.
Also, the editing is a bit off here. There are missing words, certain paragraph breaks disappear and at one part I genuinely thought a whole page was missing from the book. Certain phrases are also repeated over and over again, which felt a little lazy.
Ultimately, this book does keep the overall Firefly quality that made the series so beloved, but the execution is fumbled in parts.”
About Una McCormack
Una McCormack is the author of The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway, The Autobiography of Mr Spock, the Star Trek novels: The Lotus Flower (part of The Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Hollow Men, The Never-Ending Sacrifice, Brinkmanship, The Missing, The Fall: The Crimson Shadow, Enigma Tales, and the Doctor Who novels The King’s Dragon, The Way Through the Woods, and Royal Blood. She lives in Cambridge, England, with her partner and daughter.
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