Final Lap
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
"Ready"
Raised in a slow-paced family salvage operation, Neekoi Vole always dreamed of being a race pilot.
"Set"
She was determined to overcome the deep-seated bias that her people were slow and lazy. When an unexpected rescue operation lead to the opportunity of a lifetime, she refused to be held back.
"Go!"
Neekoi will risk it all for her chance to participate in the 100th year of the Cygnus Pizza Race Tournament. Can she overcome preconceptions about her species and claim a place on the podium in the Final Lap?
Final Lap is a story about facing adversity, systemic barriers, and great challenges with the help of friendship, determination, family, and hard work.
Customer Reviews
Excellent story
Very fun and very good story about friendships, about fighting the good fight, about cameraderie, about teamwork
and even about racing.
I really loved the main character, Neekoi Vole, who’s a mustelan (sort of a large space otter? or something?) and her crew of misfit pilots who become *the team* to beat at this completely zany race.
The story is excellent, the world is very odd, but I learned from a few internet searches that the story is about a racing video game. It’s like if Mario Kart had a deeply touching and incredibly well-written backstory.
So many feels
I have been a long-time fan of Ms Alter, ever since her hardcore Asimov-style sci-fi that I first stumbled into on a forum back in the 2000s. At the time, I felt she had talent, but that her writing was pretty heavy and a little hard to really get into.
Her Cryptid series was really fun, though I wasn’t a huge fan of the werewolf arc in the second book.
This book, though, this is a triumph. An absolute emotional rollercoaster. I have rarely picked up a fiction book in the last five or six years that made me teary-eyed, but this one did.
I hope there’s more coming, because this book was such an incredible treatment of such a weird little concept. Who would have thought that I’d be sitting here in 2026 moved to tears about a _pizza racing tournament_. I mean, that’s ridiculous, but this book soars.
I can’t believe it took me so long to find out it existed. If you are looking for a book about found family, about triumph against long odds, and about making your own mark against all odds, buy this book.
Also, Alter’s pun game is as sharp as always. I caught so many sneaky little puns, and I bet I missed a bunch of them. Now I need to go buy the little video game it’s apparently based on and see what that’s about.