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Life Is Strange: Heatwaves

By: Brittney Morris
Narrated by: Erika Mori
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An official spin-off to Life Is Strange: True Colors featuring beloved characters Alex and Steph trapped in a small town’s climate disaster. Alex’s powers are tested against a dying hope for a sustainable future.

Alex and Steph have left Haven Springs in the rear-view mirror to travel the country, chasing the horizon. Though they don’t have much money, they have their guitar and drums and each other. But when their vehicle breaks down, they are stranded, their only hope a repair shop in a struggling town in the middle of nowhere.

The town is dealing with a severe drought after an extended heatwave wreaked havoc on local crops, plunging its inhabitants into poverty and water rationing. What remains of its essential resources are being diverted to indulge the local senator, gathering support for their out-of-touch political campaign.

Feeling the anger and despair of the town’s inhabitants, Alex and Steph are compelled to do everything they can to help. But when Alex uses her powers to amplify the senator’s fear of the climate crisis, in the hope of galvanizing their support, her plan backfires, and emotions spiral wildly out of control. Alex and Steph now need to find a way to revive the hope of a failing town and resurrect its history of political action to save the townsfolk—and themselves.

©2024 Brittney Morris (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing
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such a waste

Following the events of True Colors, Alex and Steph leave Haven Springs in search of musical adventures. Brittney Morris decides to take this promising premise and turn it into a tedious and confusing story about a political state senate race centered in the next town over. Just what fans were hoping for.

Some spoilers but honestly don't worry about it: Not long out of Haven Springs, Steph and Alex's van breaks down and they end up stranded in a nearby town which is apparently so small and remote that they can't get a repair or a ride or a bus to the next town, but also so important that there's a big political rally happening, both state senate candidates are in town and the booked-out hotel is full of paparazzi. If this situation sounds incongruous and annoying, that's because it is.

Anyway, after a loooong sequence at the garage trying to buy oil, they wind up in a tent in someone's garden but that doesn't work out because chickens, so they rock up at some other dude's house who's related to the kid from the game and have a thoroughly uneventful conversation but it kills a few pages, and by 4am they're in the 24 hour diner - because what remote wilderness town with no buses doesn't have a 24 hour diner - where Alex has a weird and pointless confrontation with a powerful state senator's political aide. We're about 2.5 hours in now and very little has actually happened.

And so Life is Strange: Heatwaves goes; Alex and Steph wander from location to location having mostly pointless, boring, annoying, confusing interactions with mostly pointless, boring, annoying, confusing, two-dimensional stereotype characters. I say 'Alex and Steph' but they're hollow cut-outs of the characters we known and love. Steph basically just exists here to give Alex a smile or a look or a handhold and that's it.

As you can tell, I'm annoyed and disappointed by this wasted opportunity. Steph's Story was so good, and this is so, so bad.

Erika Mori's narration is good though. So, you know, there's that.

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