Ninth Life, Stark Holborn
Ninth Life, Stark Holborn
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Ninth Life

Author: Stark Holborn

Narrator: Ramiz Monsef, Krystal Hammond

Unabridged: 12 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/19/2024


Synopsis

The Ballad of Halo Jones meets Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers by way of 3:10 to Yuma; a clash of law and lawlessness, storytelling and truth in a headlong romp across the stars.After forty years of wreaking havoc across the galaxy, the outlaw Nine Lives—AKA Former General Gabriella Ortiz—has finally run out of lives. Shot down into a backwater at the system’s edge, she is rescued by Deputy Air Marshall Havemercy Grey.Hav is a true soul, trying to uphold what is right in the heedless wastes. Hav is determined to see justice done. And Hav could sure use that twenty-million bounty …But escorting the most dangerous fugitive in the system across the stars is no easy task, especially when decades of fire and destruction are catching up with her, and every gutspill with a pistol wants that payday. So when Ortiz offers a deal—to keep them both alive, as long as Hav listens to the stories of her lives—Hav can’t refuse.There’s just one catch: everywhere they go, during every brawl and gunfight and explosive escape, people say the same thing—don’t let her talk …

About Stark Holborn

Stark Holborn is a novelist, games writer, film reviewer, and the author of Nunslinger and Triggernometry and has worked on games and interactive fiction such as Shadow of Doubt and Mars 2020. Stark lives in the South West UK.

About Ramiz Monsef

Ramiz Monsef has spent several seasons as a member of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s acting company, and he is the playwright of OSF’s 2013 production The Unfortunates. He has also appeared onstage in New York and in numerous regional productions.

About Krystal Hammond

Krystal Hammond is a narrator/writer, cancer survivor, and nonbinary queer human. They grew up in rural North Carolina, nurtured by a steady diet of local Black Beard legends and Civil War-era ghost stories. These nuggets of folktale and myth fostered a lifelong love of storytelling and all the drama that goes with it, resulting in loads of trunk novels and dozens of audiobooks. They have a passion for science fiction, fantasy, and horror, YA and middle grade novels, and romantic comedies.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Frasier on April 28, 2024

Ninth Life is perfect. No. It’s better than perfect. It’s so good, it makes perfect look ordinary. If you’ve read Ten Low and Hel’s Eight (the first two books in the Factus series) then you’ll already know the grim and gritty glory that is Factus. It would have been so easy for this third book to ret......more

Goodreads review by Oliver on September 05, 2024

Review of the Factus Sequence on YouTube: [URL not allowed] This book feels more ambitious and broader in scale than the previous two Factus books, but is just as entertaining. It has the vibe of epic pulp science fantasy, with the life of its main character told through a series of grippi......more

Goodreads review by Nathaniel on August 06, 2024

Stark Holborn is one of the most talented writers around right now. This series has been one breathtaking book after another. It breaks all genre expectations, has beautiful writing, and make me feel so many things. I can't believe it's a real series. I can't believe this world was created in someon......more

Goodreads review by The Reading Ruru on February 23, 2025

Gabi Ortiz has come full circle - from the Child weapon found and saved by Ten Low & /or Hel the Converter, Gabi has supposed lived and died Eight lives. Once again being rescued and arrested the young Air Marshall attempts to take her in. Will this be the end Gabi's Ninth death? Another powerful bo......more

Goodreads review by Runalong on July 30, 2024

An excellent instalment in this series challenging the idea of a hero’s journey and really increasing the size and scope of the universe this story takes place in Full review - [URL not allowed]......more


Quotes

“Eerie, riveting, and scalpel-edged.” Max Gladstone, Hugo Award-winning author, on Hel’s Eight