This book is good stuff and I can't wait for the next in the series! J.S. Dewes is a Columbia College grad who writes using her initials because there is still a gender bias when it comes to reading science fiction. Boo! Dewes is helping break that bias. Yay! Thanks to Allison Epstein for this review:: A band of scrappy criminal misfits banished to the edge of space, forced to act fast to save the universe from certain destruction? Um yeah, don't mind if I do!

THE LAST WATCH is everything you want in your new favorite sci-fi series, but what sold me most was how deeply I fell in love with every single character. Cavalon Mercer, pure of heart and dumb of ass. Rake, who I'd take eight bullets for. Griffin, bless his large soul. Jack, the emotionally reticent right-hand man of my dreams. Every character is so beautifully and fully human, and I know they'll stay with me for a good long time.

Also the tension in this book is through the roof. It's one of those books where you tell yourself you're going to stop for a while, then you give in and read one more chapter because you can't stop THERE, and then somehow two hours have passed. This series is going to have a loud and vocal fan base when it releases next year, and I can't wait to get my hands on the next adventure.