by Anthony Burch

I will start this off by saying I have yet to play any borderlands games. However, I have seen the movie. There for there was not a whole lot of game bias before starting this story.

This book is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game Tales from the Borderlands. You start right in to a new adventure with Fiona and Sasha.
As Sasha dies and then comes back to life during a vault hunting trip, Fiona starts thinking about what she can do to keep her sister safe. Once Fiona cracks the vault, she’s given the opportunity for one wish, any wish. What would a vault hunter wish for, well….she didn’t think it was a limited-edition Typhon DeLeon Vaultander action figure. Yet, here they are holding a collectible that is supposed to set them up for life.

This action figure would set them up for their entire life and then some, as long as they got it to the right buyer.

The sisters spend the last of the money they have to get to Eden-5, This is a planet unlike Pandora, where they grew up. where Pandora is full of Vault hunters and bandits, Eden-5 is full of Billionaires and … well also bandits. Once they arrive, its not all sunshine and rainbows, they have a buyer but they run into a few mishaps before even getting the small plastic man that would change their lives to its new owner.

Finally they get to where they are going, settle on a price then out of no where a very young, determined , and somewhat deranged Mechromancer crashes the party. She just so happens to want to murder the buyer. This does not sit well with Sasha and Fiona, for obvious reasons. This is where the real story starts.

Fiona finds out rather quickly what she thought she wanted, isn’t what she really wants. The story follows the sisters along their path of having nothing, having it all, and then getting a bit rowdy.

Where I have yet to play the games, after this story I went and bought the Telltale game and the other Borderlands games. It didn’t feel like a book that was forced because of a popular game. We all know of a few that felt like that, and I’m happy to say with very little knowledge of the world and the games I was very entertained, and at no point did I feel like lack of knowledge kept me from understanding the plot, setting, or characters. Id actually rather like to have more books in this series, following the sisters on more adventures.

Thank you NetGalley and Tantor Media | Tantor Audio for the Digital ARC for review.