The search expedition through the space station is not just a simple rollercoaster. Not that you’ll notice it because Taran Hunt grabs your attention from the very start, ruthlessly, and doesn’t let go until at the end of - or even beyond - the last page. With its 600 pages, The Immortality Thief is not a little one. (Featuring: Sean Wren’s Inability to Use a Grenade)’ And sometimes, the title of a chapter alone sets the mood: The book doesn’t make you laugh out loud, but you will chuckle at times because of the funny quotes or one-liners Wren comes up with.

His speech is witty, his thinking kooky at times. He has a knack for languages but not many other talents, and he has a heart of gold. The adventures are, but there is also some humour contained inside protagonist Sean Wren. Yes, apart from all the excitement, this book is fun too. ‘The design of toilets hadn’t changed as much in a thousand years as I would’ve guessed.’ Almost entirely situated inside a thousand year old space ship with danger and surprises around every corner, you are set for a lot of action and surprises in what at times resembles a classic haunted house adventure as well. In this case, it’s actually quite spot on. The book description says this: “The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure hunts, traps, deadly enemies, betrayal, secrets, mysterious aliens, adventure and action as the story races to the find the secret to immortality.” Usually, I find these marketing quotes extremely exaggerated. In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days… and the terrible secret it’s hiding. The Ministers, mysterious undying aliens that have ruled over humanity for centuries, want the data – as does The Republic, humanity’s last free government.

Data connected to the Philosopher’s Stone experiments, into unlocking the secrets of immortality.Īnd he’s not the only one looking for the derelict ship. Refugee, criminal and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can’t refuse: life in prison, “voluntary” military service – or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it’s destroyed in a supernova. But there are secrets there, terrible secrets that would change the fate of humanity, and eventually someone will come looking.

The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure hunts, traps, deadly enemies, betrayal, secrets, mysterious aliens, adventure and action as the story races to the find the secret to immortality.įar off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium.

The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt