This is also the first time that I have read all eight books in succession. Of the eight Helmsman books, the last book Turning Tide has always been my least favorite. My favorite book has always been the first book of this series. This last book has always felt to me very disorganized and does not flow smoothly. I believe the author did not get the last book edited as there are numerous spelling mistakes, homonym errors and words used and spelled correctly but in the wrong location.
The last book has also felt as nothing more than a set up for what was supposed to be the last book in the series. With a new love interest, championed by Barbousse no less, I always wondered if Wilf and Margot ever rode off into the sunset. Despite how much I dislike the Margot character, it always appeared to me that she was ready to live her life without Brim.
She married a second time, and only appears to return to Brim when she is between husbands. However, this happens in real life all the time. People attempt to move on with their life but end up with previous partners again, at least for a little while.
He is now, as Lord Graystone homage to Tarzan maybe? Margot literally has nothing and the way she talks about her last husband in the past tense, I think something must have happened to him. Margot is a very damaged woman, that after book two I dislike. So it was totally futile effort throwing her away to Lakarn, that only resulted in destroying a woman, and possibly a great love. Margot has lost everything — her royalty, her status, her mind, her child and her body was all taken from her.
I had hope that the last book s would see a healed Margot with some of her old flame back; perhaps fight to get Brim for herself. With her TimeWeed addiction cured, and some time to heal, I would have liked to see Margot get her nobility back, and return to some of what she was before. She admits that she is a different woman than Brim knew before, but there are still some sparks between them. I always had hoped that Brim and Margot would end up together despite everything the universe threw at them.
Science Fiction Space Opera with unusual alternate-history twist. Read a FREE excerpt. Futuristic, Military Science-Fiction novel about intragalactic competition and conflict. Futuristic, Military Science-Fiction novel about intragalactic competition and conflict".
While the Empire crumbles under the blitzkrieg assault of the League of Dark Stars, Helmsman Wilf Brim rallies the surviving Imperial Starfuries for a desperate last-ditch effort to save the core of the Empire at Avalon. Rear Admiral Wilf Brim and his old comrade General Ursis must rally Sodeskaya's archaic ships in order to repel Triannic's vast star fleet and overcome overwhelming odds.
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