The first day at a new school is always the worst.
Fresh from narrowly escaping death in the chaos that was the Bounty Hunter Academy entrance exam, Tega reports for her first day as a cadet.
When she’s immediately summoned to the office of the dreaded bounty hunter supreme, Tega thinks things can’t get any worse.
But that’s where she’s wrong.
First, she’s assigned a homeroom teacher scarier than the grave. Then, she and the other cadets are pitted against each other in a deadly competition where failure means either losing your place in the academy or losing your life.
But those are just the beginning of Tega’s troubles, and before the final school bell rings, only one thing's for sure.
Tega's going to wish she never even heard of the Bounty Hunter Academy.
Hadwin Fuller is the author of the space opera series Star Inferno. He writes sci-fi novels packed to the air seals with blaster brawls, space dogfights and misfit crews of loveable weirdos who are forced to band together to save the universe.
Like most sci-fi writers, Hadwin is the victim of a misspent youth (he blames his parents) in which his head was buried far too often in sci-fi novels and far too rarely in schoolbooks. It is from this vast expanse of wasted time that he channels his inner sci-fi writer.
Hadwin lives in Vietnam with his wife, newborn baby and robot vacuum cleaner. When he’s not pressing his eyeballs up against the display of his e-reader, Hadwin can be found blasting around town on his motorbike, loafing around in coffee shops and eating his way through every Vietnamese food they have a name for.
I think this book and the first book should have been switched. After an extreme show of heroism in book 1, the crippling fear in this book was a 180 slap in the face. Tega went from standing her ground against terrifying outsiders and single handedly saving the bounty hunter supreme to not being able to push a button in order to deploy a net because “what if I miss?”. I almost wished the 2nd book came first so the difference wasn’t so jarring. Almost read like a different character and I felt like I was just reading about what if’s that had the story spinning in place. The ending was okay. World building was still decent though.
I liked the first book but this one nope. The main character goes from young inexperienced but courageous to a WHINY incompetent fearful fool. Can she do anything? No. Gets helped by everyone for no reason and still fails at every turn and that if she even goes so far as to try. Getting her to try takes multiple pep talks. And I can not emphasize enough how WHINY she is throughout.
This story is filled with plenty of action, scheming and conspiracies aimed at the MC in the attempt s on her life. The storyline is very interesting and is reminiscent of the basic 'Harry Potter' trope. The MC, Tega has an inner dialogue brimming with self-defeat and self-debasement that becomes quite maddening. She's very likable and you can't help but want her to succeed. With all that said, the author knows how to keep things interesting, I will continue reading the series.
I'm amazed that this author can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that he never stops writing. His books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.