The Digital Mage (Ascender, #3) by Jeff Lemire

​From one world to the next, Ascender series has taken to the stars. Old friends (well, more like comrades in arms) are met) and old loves are tragically revisited.
This series has a knack for (almost) killing off its characters. Messing with readers like that…
But also, having read a bunch of these books now, it’s easy to start noticing patterns and/or limitations. Like the way the (stunningly talented) artist tends to draw people very similarly, so that the girl protagonist of Ascender looks almost exactly like the robot boy protagonist of Descender but hairstyled longer. Or the way the adults of masculine and feminine persuasion respectively have similar features.
And now, three books in. I’m realizing that although I’m rating Ascender series as highly as I did the Descender, I’d say here I’m rounding it up, with some added points for familiarity.
All in all, as of now, I’d say Descender is a superior work. And now just because there are more robots…and I’ll take robots over vampires any day.
It has a lot to do with Tim-21 being a more emotionally engaging lead. But at any rate, I’m going to finish the series and then review the entire thing. At any rate, it’s all still exceptionally entertaining, stunningly rendered, and absolutely worth the read.