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Honor Lost

(The Honors #3)

Rachel Caine (Goodreads Author),

Ann Aguirre (Goodreads Author)

4.29 · Rating details · 55 ratings · 13 reviews

Space renegade Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller—a creature that can devour entire planets—is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous godking’s way.

Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again. Zara’s street smarts may ...more

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Hardcover, 448 pages

Published February 11th 2020 by Katherine Tegen Books

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Feb 13, 2020 Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin rated it it was amazing

Shelves: hardback, own, sci-fi

Terrific ending!

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Feb 14, 2020 Jaye Berry rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020, ebooks, favorites, ya, sci-fi

Perfection, absolute perfection. When I say this book was exactly what I ever wanted from this series, I'm not kidding. This was seriously everything and I will never get over this.

I've never been blessed this much?? I can't believe I had doubts on where this book would go. I'm not going to get into too many spoils but this is the finale to this massively underrated series. I want to sob thinking about how underrated and unknown these books are because they truly deserve the world.

This is an Perfection, absolute perfection. When I say this book was exactly what I ever wanted from this series, I'm not kidding. This was seriously everything and I will never get over this.

I've never been blessed this much?? I can't believe I had doubts on where this book would go. I'm not going to get into too many spoils but this is the finale to this massively underrated series. I want to sob thinking about how underrated and unknown these books are because they truly deserve the world.

This is an amazing space story of so many different aliens, sexuality, romances, and culture. The main romance is seriously a polyamorous girl x ship x girl and the authors do not mess around in showcasing how beautiful and amazing their bond is. Plus they are so SOFT AND PURE together. Seriously there are so many good quotes and cute scenes, I was filling up my phone with screenshots. It is so fucking adorable and I am still so emotional.

I've wanted this relationship even when I was reading book one and I don't know how to thank the authors enough for fully committing to this rare and unique ship. It's like I wanted things to happen one way and the authors reached into my brain and were like, "shit that's good we're doing this for her". They could have chickened out BUT THEY DIDN'T and just ??? Thank you ??? SO MUCH. From the bottom of my heart.

I don't want to be extra but I read this in my february month of romances and honestly this feels like the most romantic book I've read so far this month. uGH CAN I JUST HUG A BOOK AND THE AUTHORS FOR FEEDING ME SO WELL?

Beyond the romance that slaps, I did like their adventures and the final battle was pretty damn epic. This is more of a character based story so the plot was kind of weak, no shade. They have to kill the epic god Lifekiller but they deal with so many other random problems nonstop along the way. It's very fast paced, the characters barely ever get a chance to breathe and I just wanted them to have a NAP. (But that scene where they do get a break before the final battle though, if you know you know😉).

This book is exactly how I like my space books: filled with aliens, adventure, and fighting against a big bad (that happens to be their fault lol) all with a fleshed out team of people. We have character development, we have humor, we have diversity of literally ALL KINDS EVER, we have LGBT+, we have romance, we have space battles, we even have sarcastic robots. If you want it, this book (and series) has it, I swear.

A series finale that leaves me smiling and so happy?? Who is she?? This is going down as one of my favorite series ever, no cap. Please stop sleeping on this beautiful trilogy! ...more

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Feb 14, 2020 Clephiro rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, scifi, lgbtq

If you haven't read the first two books of this series, I will warn you that this review will contain spoilers for this book and the previous books. I will say this spoiler-free though: The Honors series is criminally underrated. Also, to the person that commented on my last review: poly girlxshipxgirl confirmed. So love isn't just for humans anymore. <3

My thanks to Ann Aguirre and Rachel Caine for not teasing us, or being vague. While there aren't explicit smutty scenes or anything, it's ...more

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Jul 02, 2019 FearMyBotanyPowers added it · review of another edition

Oh no. Zara's street skills might not be enough to save them from a THANOS-LEVEL THREAT OH MY COTTON SOCKS WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO

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Feb 17, 2020 Heather rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The relationship that has slowly been developing between Zara, Bea, and Nadim comes to fruition in this volume. As a content note, there’s not-very-explicit sex of the f/f/sentient-space-whale variety. It’s an incredibly beautiful and original poly and queer relationship that I love. It’s been a slow-burn relationship over three books with a very soft space whale, and it’s been absolutely lovely.

There are some great tense scenes in here, and even though it all takes place in space ships there’s ...more

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Feb 14, 2020 Kristin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, 2020-fiction

Wow! What an epic climax, and wonderfully fitting conclusion to this series. Zara Cole's journey has brought her from a scared, young woman to a strong, decisive, adventurous, and loving woman. And the conclusion brought me full circle to the optimism I felt in the first book. But while that first book had naïve optimism, this third book's optimism is hard-won and no longer ignorant of the challenges of the world (and, of course, of space beyond our world) or of the costs of survival!

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Feb 14, 2020 Sandra rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, science-fiction

3 stars rounded to 4. Honor Lost is the last book in the Honors trilogy. Zara, Bea and Nadine’s story comes to conclusion in the battle with Lifekiller, the planet devouring enemy. I really liked books one and two and the story of book three but it sort of, as the saying goes, “jumped the shark” in Honors Lost. Lots of awkward romance between the three didn’t lend any richness to the story and leaving those parts rather awkward and out of place. The storyline with Zara’s ex and his powerful, ...more

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Feb 13, 2020 Bethany rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: scifi-fantasy, young-adult, it-s-a-love-story, lgbt-rep, bamf-ladies

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Feb 16, 2020 KittenKaboom rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I loved this series. The world building was so rich, it left me wanting to read more stories and adventures set in this universe. I do love a good space adventure with a ragtag misfit crew, the story reminded me of Farscape and Firefly. I would highly recommend if you're into those things.

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Dec 28, 2019 Kira Brighton marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: most-excited-for

(Showcased in Winter 2020 Top To-Reads)

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Feb 14, 2020 Garrett Olinde rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Rather soft on details, but a good series overall.

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Feb 11, 2020 Louisa rated it it was amazing

Wow, such a great book, loved how everything came together, it was a really fantastic ending, and it was so great to read!

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Feb 16, 2020 Susan Potucek rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Heartbreaking battles

I enjoyed the development of bonds between the variety of life forms. This science fiction, action packed thriller ended with a wink to the future.

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