The Forever Knight

This novella was writing 7 years after conclusion after the previous trilogy and was a planned bridge for a new trilogy. Unfortunately Marco is longer affiliated with DAW so is legally incapable of writing more. :/

The story follows Lukien, who's POV in the last two books were quite lacking. The story is told in first person which is a pretty fun change of pace. You get a lot more information about him that you didn't realize that you needed to know. He comes in contact with a girl named Cricket who doesn't remember anything about herself so they both go on a journey to find out and comes to love her as a daughter. I was really interested to find out who she is but once you find out it's like, “that's it?” Good for me the story has branched off and the major part of the story was a fight between two nations. One guy is using an undead monster, which was very imaginative in description, as a cheat code in killing his enemy. Lukien must then send the monster back to hell and also kill a few bad guys in the process.

The story at first lacked depth for me but then progressively got better and I'm glad he wrote it. I'm a big fan of Marco now and will be devouring his work asap.