Heroes of an Unknown World: a novel

Liminal #4

by Ayize Jama-Everett

In the final novel of the Liminals, a found family of Black superheroes has one last chance to save the world.


After traveling back in time to rescue his fostered daughter, Taggert has returned to the present and found himself in his favorite up against the wall. But the world they’ve returned to is not the one they everything is slightly grayer, the music is boring, joy is just out of reach. The liminals’ entropic enemies, the Alters, are trying to bring about the end of the world by sucking the life—literally—out of enough people to tip the balance their way.



Traveling from Jamaica to London to Indonesia to the heart of the whirlwind in the desert at the heart of all deserts, Taggert and his found family of liminals and supporters have to find a way to bring back the joy before they’re all ground down into the gray dust.

Genres: Science Fiction

315 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 7, 2023

Reviews

[Michele · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m sure that I would have understood more of what was happening if I’d read the other books in the series. However, it was kind of all over the place, and it was written in first person from several points of view, which also made it hard to understand. And the spelling and grammatical errors were atrocious.

[Charles Cohen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the ending. The only issue I have is that Jama-Everett REALLY wanted these books to be super tight. On the one hand, kudos for editing. On the other, the story could have used a little more room to breathe.

[Wes · Rating 4 out of 5]

At the time I read it, it had been years since the last one, so it took me a while to get back into the swing of things. But once I did, I really enjoyed it as a conclusion to the saga.