Shadow of the Endless

By: Gaskell, Stephen

While her starfaring people are being hunted by an implacable enemy, a young caver discovers a traitor in their ranks and must undertake a transformative journey across the galaxy to save everything she has ever known.

Persecuted for their worship of the Endless--an ancient, galactic-spanning race of god-like power, who disappeared eons past--the Pilgrims escaped the world of Raia almost a century ago, fleeing the despotic rule of the United Empire in a dozen space-faring fleets.
Young Pilgrim Sewa Eze wants nothing more than to become a caver and head into the depths of deserted moons, asteroids, and worlds to secure whatever the fleet needs: precious resources, Endless relics, even Dust. However, when she discovers a strange device deep in the ice of the comet they shelter on, it becomes clear dark forces are afoot. Selected for a leadership role at the Ceremony of Duties, she must reassess her life, beginning with finding the traitor in their ranks who threatens her entire fleet's existence.
The course of Sewa's life changes forever as she is forced to confront treachery, discover the secrets of the ancient past and travel to the very heart of the tyrannical United Empire.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835410448
• ISBN13: 9781835410448
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent story

I am not familiar with the Endless games, however that did not detract from my enjoyment of listening to this audiobook set in that universe. It has good background with the Pilgrims of the Horizon of Light fleet and their running from Raia and the empire, searching for the mysterious Endless and I did not feel lost at all. Sewa is an interesting character who has a crazy adventure, starting with an attack by the Empire, betrayal of an old friend/father figure, being changed into something else, finding answers about the Endless and Dust and her father, and figuring out what she wants to do with her life. She meets interesting beings and will do anything to get back to her family and protect them. I found this audiobook engaging and interesting and the ending nicely satisfying though it would be cool to listen to more stories set in this universe. The narrator, Penelope Rawlins does a great job in brining Sewa to life and the journey she must take to find answers and get back to the Pilgrim fleet and her family and friends. I hope we can see where her next steps will take her and where the Endless have gone.