Reseña: Last Bastion (FFO 2)

Last Bastion (FFO #2)

by 

Rachel Aaron and Travis Bach 

563 pages

Published April 30th 2019 by Aaron/Bach

ASIN: B07Q24W76N

Edition Language: English

Series: Forever Fantasy Online #2 

BLURB:  Bastion was supposed to mean safety. It was supposed to mean a break from fighting for their lives and a chance to talk to someone who might actually know what’s going on. Access to their gold and some beer would have been nice, too.
They got none of those things. When Tina and James arrive in the capital, they find a city on fire in more ways than one. Players and non-players hunt each other in the streets, while the king who controls the city’s all-powerful artifact cowers from the chaos in his castle. Desperate to warn somebody about the Once King’s coming invasion, James wants to try to talk to the king anyway, while Tina just wants to meet the royal portal keepers who might be able to send them home.

My rating: 3.5 stars

La dupla matrimonial constituida por Aaron y Bach ha producido un libro entretenido, algo sangriento con sus batallas , donde trabajan con el trope de los jugadores de un juego virtual de rol en linea atrapados dentro de ese mundo. Es una fantasia de portales , además de un poco de ciencia ficcion mezclada por la tecnologia. Jugadores y No-jugadores se encuentran en un mundo donde aun hay cosas del juego y nuevas cuestiones.

Este libro empieza inmediatamente donde nos ha dejado el primer libro, con el reencuentro de los hermanos Tina y James llegando hasta Bastion, donde habita el rey.

Tina, sigue cayendome de la patada, que mujer más corta de pensamiento y sangrienta. Es interesante, por otra parte, la exploracion que hacen del personaje del asesino que le es incondicional y como uno puede cegarse disque por amor (aunque siguen guardando silencio el secreto de la vida real de SilentBlade).

Hay tremendas batllas en este libro, y confieso que me salte varias paginas, uf, no estoy para tanta barbarie a estas alturas.



Me gustaria saber más acerca de l Sol, la Luna, los Pajaros y todo lo que tiene relacion con la batalla original entre Elfos y el resto de los habitantes originarios de ese mundo.

James me sigue cayendo bien, y tambien Fangs y los amigos que hace.

Espero que se publoque el tercer libro para saber como termina.


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Book 2 of 3 of Forever Fantasy Online. Opens inmediatly after the end of the previous book, when the arrivals at the Sacred City of Bastion. Tina and the rest of players looking for a portal viable to go back home; and James with Fangs in a mission.

I used to like the so-called 'manly films' with tons of batle and action but lately I avoid war films, so it happen here that I skip several pages of mortal combat because there tons of violence and gory going on.

Tina is an obnoxious character, bad mouthed, violent and stubborn. I wish her dead many times. She is unable to empathize with the other side,; she is not even able to recognize how the person she claims to have feels for can feel. Tina accuses James of being selfish, but she is more.

“It's your sister, isn't it?” Flameboyant said. “I've seen how he looks at her. Dude's got it bad.”
“'Bad' is an apt description,” James said bitterly. “Like I said, SilentBlayde is normally a great person, but when Tina gets involved, his morals go completely out the window. There's literally nothing he won't do for her. He always feels horrible about it afterward, but that never stops him from doing it again, and it's only gotten worse since Tina went to college.”

On the other hand, James is weak to his sister because of his sense of guilt. It is good that Fangs is there to enphasize him where it is appropriate that his efforts be now.

SB: If this was still the game, it never could have, but your brother is a multiple black belt in real life. You and me and everyone else, we just played at being Knights and Assassins, but James has practiced fighting for years. He's the real deal, and when things got real, he was just better than me. In a lot of ways.”

I really like the Ar'Bati, he is the real badass warrior.

So it amazes and enrages me as most players still see the NPCs as if they were not people. I can't help comparing them in my mind with the conquerors who saw the natives on a continent, in the same way, not as people, even not attributing soul to justify themselves. The Nightmare twisted their world and tortured them!

We could go somewhere else. Someone mentioned conquering a zone, which isn't actually a bad idea. All the places around Bastion are pretty low-level. If we wanted to, we could go out to one of the smaller cities, take it over, and make all those NPCs work for us.”
He finished with a grin, but Tina shook her head, copper dreadlocks swaying. “Nah, I don't like it. I don't want to rule some medieval village, and what we need is here in Bastion.”

I'd like the book explore/explain more about the world itself. For the hints it seems like the elves are from /SPOILER--->another dimension, they invade the world and supresse the Moon people or something like that. Is this something like the Dark Crystal? <---SPOILER/ I want to know about the Lore, the Sun and the Moon.

In the tradition of high fantasy books, it's was good that a understimated race get to have a interesting background. /SPOILERS--->Like the bankers and the gold, and the story of the Moon and the Birds <---SPOILERS/[ Like the bankers and the gold, and the story of the Moon and the Birds (hide spoiler)]

I suppose that the captain /SPOILER--->Malakai, that they so 'conveniently' bring with them, is going to mean problems for them too. Uf. <---SPOILER/[Malakai, that they so 'conveniently' bring with them, is going to mean problems for them too. Uf. (hide spoiler)]

I'm waiting for the unpublished 3rd book.

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