Katy-Del's Reviews > Flinx Transcendent

** spoiler alert ** I have read the Flinx series since Jr High. For Love of Mother Not was one of my first sci-fi books. I have a painting that my Mom painted of Pip when I was 4 years old. That being said, the last few Flinx books have been a complete dissappointment. To the point where I questioned why I still read them.

And now I have an answer. This is what I was waiting for. The last few books have had Flinx wandering the galaxy looking for motivation to save it. He was lonely and a total downer. He had some adventures in unusual places, but the books were very melencholy.

The first half of the book is like many of the most recent. Flinx has emerged himself in alien culture. His melancholy must have gone up to "Suicidal" because he is on a planet of the reptillian AAnn and has to wear a full scale reptile suit. After some huge events, he leaves the planet sure that he can not continue on his own and goes to find Clarity and his mentors who were left on Nur several books ago when they were attacked by a religous sect.

Flinx finds them all healed from their last adventure together, but is spotted as soon as he contacts tham and there are immediate assassination attempts. Of course, our heroes escape into space and head out to save the galaxy.

I'm kind of disappointed that the whole universe saving only takes up half the book. For such a massive build up, it all kind of gets solved in a hurry. I'm glad Flinx gets over the "I'm so alone, shy am I saving the universe" thing and went back to his friends, but it just seems unbalanced after books and books of blah. I wanted more of the good stuff.