The Fires of Hephaestus

The Starsea Cycle, Book 6

By: Kyle West

Narrated by: Rob Brinkmann

The Worlds will never be the same...

The Swarmers are on the move. As star systems fall one by one, the League of Worlds begins to fragment. The Dread Pirate Zheng Yang advances her Golden Armada toward the League's core, bringing either death or salvation. The Prophet Sharo Khalin consolidates a theocracy in the spinward mid-worlds, while the League of Worlds concentrates everything toward a last-ditch defense against the Swarmers.

But unknown to all these major players, the Worlds' only hope lies in Lucian Abrantes, his crew, their starship, and of course, the powerful Orbs of Starsea. But even these powerful artifacts might not be enough to survive the dark days ahead.

He must reach the hellish planet of Hephaestus before his enemies do, and claim the Orb of Thermalism, located somewhere on its lava-ridden surface. Can Lucian secure the prize, or will enemies old and new stop him in his tracks?

©2022 Kyle West (P)2022 Kyle West

Loving this space opera fantasy prophecy series

I enjoy genre bender books and I love magic this series had it all. Sort of like Harry Potter with spaceships.

Good continuation of the story

Overall story was OK. I didn’t like some of the ridiculously stupid decisions that a person would make the main character that is. A lot of them just didn’t make sense for the story. Over the top suffering. Something wrong with the output of the voice changed about the time I had about 3 1/2 hours to go. The pitch of the voice changed and a lot of cut out vocals. I tried downloading and again same so it’s in the main cut. So the quality control of the performance took a sharp turn. I think he turned off the bass. And then it turned back to his normal voice But other than that, it was a decent story.