A review by giantarms
Starlight Volume 1 by Mark Millar

3.0

On the one hand, I always did like a take charge type, but on the other I do not believe the premise I was sold on was delivered.

I thought the book was going to be about aging and relevance and all those things we boring adults struggle with -- except in space. Woo, space!

But, once the main character gets back into his space suit, suddenly he's practically twenty-five again, running and punching and kicking and shooting just as well as he ever did. I think there are one or two nods to the possibility of the decrepitude that even now I begin to feel within my own bones, but other than to serve as a little plot point, that's all. When Duke is in a pinch, when there are lives at stake, his cartilage is at 100%.

And then,

Spoiler

when he gets home, his good-for-nothing kids see the spaceship and are finally convinced. Because the word of their father wasn't good enough. I mean, yes, maybe it was stressful on their relationship to have believed your dad was a cracked pot, but I just feel like --

argh . . . maybe I'm being too critical.

Either way, I wanted an exploration of humanity, but I got a punch-em-up instead. Oh well. At least it didn't take long to read.

Annnnnd I'm still just as much the horrible, decaying old fart that I've always been! Hooray!