Victory

Lawless #3

by James Maxey

Aliens have stolen the moon! Earth’s only hope rests in the hand of Golden Victory and the fearless heroes of the Lawful Legion. But as these mighty heroes race into space to save the moon, the former superhero known as Screaming Jenny is on a mission of her own. Now that she knows the government has altered her memories, Jenny is tracking down the truth about her past, even if she has to free a dangerous supervillain to do so. Her shocking discoveries reveal dark secrets about some of the world’s most respected heroes. Can the Lawful Legion survive when truth is finally told?

Gonzo superhero action from the author of Nobody Gets the Girl!

203 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 15, 2018

About the author

I've been an avid reader since I first picked up a book. Luckily, I was within biking distance of three different libraries growing up. I was a skinny kid. If only I had maintained that link between biking and reading, I might be a skinny adult.

I'm also a writer. I wrote my first book as a kid, an adventure about pirates and ghosts. When I was a teenager, I used to write superhero adventures. Then I went to college and was steered toward writing "literature." It took me several years to shake that off, and today I write the sort of books I devoured by the shelf when I was sixteen, fast-paced fantasy, SF, and superhero adventures, which I use to explore deeper questions about life. My goal is to always be thought-provoking and always be fun.

I've had short stories in about a dozen anthologies and magazines. My novels to date are:

Nobody Gets the Girl

The Dragon Age trilogy
Bitterwood
Dragonforge
Dragonseed

Burn Baby Burn

The Dragon Apocalypse
Greatshadow (January 2012) -- A team of superpowered adventurers are recruited by the Church of the Book to extinguish the primal dragon of fire, Greatshadow.

Hush (July 2012) -- An effort to complete a quest for a fallen friend, the warrior woman Infidel stumbles onto a plot to kill Glorious, the primal dragon of the sun, and plunge the world into permanent cold and darkness, the elemental domain of the dragon Hush.

Witchbreaker (January 2013) -- A young witch named Sorrow has lost control of her magic after tapping into the spirit of Rott, the primal dragon of decay. Her desperate quest to save what remains of her humanity leads to an uneasy alliance with an amnesiatic warrior who might be the legendary champion of the church known as the Witchbreaker. But can there combined powers prevail when they trigger the wrath of Tempest, the primal dragon of storms?

Reviews

[Ziggy Nixon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've got to do it: 5 stars! This was an awesome book that closed out an awesome trilogy (it is closed out now, right?) that just was awesome from Page 1 to the very end. Just awesome!!! I can't remember the last time a full-fledged trilogy ended on such a high note! And no criticsm of 'Boom! Pow! Kablooie!' at all, but this one just shows how much James Maxey has upped his game!

I've mentioned in reviews for James's books before that I simply LOVE the superhero genre. I could go on and on about which books stood best alone, which books had the best plot, origin stories, you name it! So here's the accolades for "Victory: Lawless Book 3" among ALL the supe stories on my list - this is without a doubt the BEST TEAM story I've read. Period! And not one of those 'periods' you use to describe crowd sizes or try to deny creating concentration camps for immigrants. Yeah, I went there.

Too short only because it was too good! But the sheer juggling of perspectives was done with such seamless aplomb that I'll be thinking about this one for a while! Back and forth, up and down, wowzers! Do you like your hero teams with a wide mix of personalities and hero-ish-ness, not to mention an enormous (we're talking truckloads) of dysfunctionality included? This book is it. Seriously, we go from sad Moleman wannabe's all the way to freakin' GOD in the space of mere pages! Characters that had only spent a few moments 'on camera' before were perfectly blended into a story-line that went from the darkest personal places to galactic proportions with apocalyptic reprecussions! AND I WAS RIGHT ABOUT BRAIN BOY! BOOYAH!

Seriously kids, if you've ever liked Justice League or Fantastic Four or really even the Avengers and X-Men when they started to get REALLY good (think Vision crying or Magneto turning good-era stuff), you should like this! I'm going to be fan-boy geeking out for days about this book... which is going to be odd as I'm getting ready to go to a wedding. Oh well, standing up and cheering might not be TOO embarrassing, no? I'll try to keep the Monkey Man stuff to a minimum...

LOVED IT!

[Bryan Geddes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another satisfying end

Really enjoyed the way threads from the previous two books were weaved into this story and wrapped up in a satisfying conclusion