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Nexus by Lindsay Cummings, Sasha Alsberg
3.0

Nexus is the follow-on book to Zenith in the Androma Saga and follows space pirate Andi as she has to fight tyrannical leader Nor, and help her friends who are trapped with mind control.
I read this on audiobook with a full cast narration and while the audiobook definitely wasn't ,y favourite, I think I liked the actual book better than if I would have read it in physical format like I did Zenith.

I will say that I definitely did like the world created in The Androma Saga. I like that there seems to be loads of different planets and different kind of species, and how everyone lives and worships varies from planet to planet which makes things interesting but I do think that the world definitely wasn't used to its full potential. I would have loved a bit more planet hopping with Andi and Dex as they tried to fight their way back to the rest of the crew, and maybe they could have picked up a few interesting tagalongs along the way. We got it to an extent but I definitely think more could have been done (and there could have just been les overall of Andi being angry and not doing anything).
I've seen some reviews slate the 'science' in this book but honestly, there's never mention of earth or anything we actually know of our own galaxy in these duology so I'm okay with accepting the science as it is and not questioning things too much. 

I have to say again that the characters in this aren't particularly original, and none of the characters' decisions ever really surprised me. I found Andi a bit of an exhausting character - maybe because I was listening on audio- but she was just always so angry, which to an extent is understandable but it made her very antagonistic and the narration very loud and shouty and I didn't like that energy. 

Overall, this duology was fine for me. I wouldn't shout about it from the rooftops but it wasn't absolutely terrible either. I will still support the authors and read other books they come out with,