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  • The Fear Saga, Book 3
  • By: Stephen Moss
  • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
  • Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (3,227 ratings)
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Fear the Future

By: Stephen Moss
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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Summary

A predator hunts the skies over Earth. Its intent is peaceful, and its mission is essential, but it is the deadliest machine humanity has ever created.

Piloted by a six-year-old girl, the godlike Skalm guards the Districts of TASC. Her family is long dead. Her adopted father is a synthetic copy of an alien, her nanny an artificial mind connected via subspace to every part of the globe, feeding the young girl information, finding prey to satiate her growing thirst.

But the young girl is an innocent, a victim, one of millions the war has already claimed. Her innocence has been sacrificed by a man with singular purpose: a man who will stop at nothing in order to prepare Earth for the coming conflict.

The armada is approaching, its far-off engines now bright as stars in the night sky. They mean to kill us. They have the power to do so. And as oblivion's maw opens up to engulf us, we brace ourselves for battle.

We will fight to the last. Live or die, we will leave a scar upon our attackers that will last an age, even if we ourselves do not.

©2014 Stephen Moss (P)2016 Podium Publishing

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Wow.....but what to do now?

Loved all three books.Great narration (RC Bray is a legend) and brilliant writing. Felt a real connection with the characters. The problem is (and it's the same after every good book) what do I read now?

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Too many loose ends and not enough 'ending'.....

A little disapointed considering the first two book were actually very good indeed. The third book was the length of the first two combioned and really felt it. I found myself skipping whole chapters because the story continued to focus heavily on areas that didn't really add any value apart from padding the story out. I'm glad I did as the end was, as others have said, very anti-climactic.
I wont spoil it but there were whole chapters and many hours building up tech and characters only to find them simply unnecessary in the end. In fact one minor side story line ended up being the surprise big ending. There were simply too many loose ends from too many cul-de-sacs and the story... just ended. There was an attempt to wrap it all up but it and I felt empty and that I'd wasted a alot of time paying attention to detailed story lines and significant characters that ended up eitehr going nowhere, simply not being completed or just ignored.
However the whole series was worth the listen and I did enjoy the whole; just not the thrid book and ending.

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Well it kinda ended

I loved the first book, the second book was OK but the last was just painful in places to read and I so hoped it was going to pick up but it was all long and drawn out bits with characters which was ultimately wasted.
From the start I hoped things would pick up but it just declined.
Still it ended the series and I won't be left wanting to know what happened.

You'll want to listen to this book to just put an end to the series but it was, for me, disappointing.

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Feels like it was an edited and re-written version

I enjoyed the first of the series, the second book was ok, but this book was dreadful. It was just cheesy none sense that literally felt like he lost the plot at some point.

Without giving anything away the author took a certain aspect of the book in a completely different direction which seemed to be conjured up from nowhere. It was as if the editor didn't like an aspect in the story and so certain characters should be taken in a different direction. It felt rushed and ill thought out.

The final book ruined the series for me. If I'd known it would turn in to this nonsense I wouldn't have bothered with the series.

Bray did his best with it but even he was grating on me by the end of it.

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Starts well, disappointing end

A must read if you've started the Fear saga. Finding out what happened to Earth and the characters was good. However the book went on and on about somewhat irrelevant scenes. The ending was also disappointing. Having built the armada's arrival for three whole books I was left feeling underwhelmed. That said, the book was performed well and all three books kept up my interest.

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The worst of all three.

The author really shows his lack of experience in this lackluster finale. Rc Bray is still a fantastic narrator

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I've read all 3 books.

1st book.- AMAZING
2nd.- Pretty good
3rd.- goes on too long, too much politics, disapointing end could have finish with the second book.

Very well written though, very clever and deep concepts. Well narrated.

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Instantly catapulted to my favorite sci-fi trilogy

After book one, I wondered if the next two could live up to it. Oh my goodness!

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Excellent finale!

A great finish to a fantastic series. Really pleased that the additional short story was included as I had made an assumption that it happily crushed. The story felt a little long at times, just a tad too much for my scifi limits in places. Overall tho, this was great. R. C. Bray was as fantastic as always. Read or listen to these three books!!!!

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Amazing - ignore the reviews, finish the series!

The main thing I've seen reviews mention about this book is that it's "the worst of the trilogy" and has "a disappointing ending"..and I can understand some of the criticism. The interval sections aboard the oncoming alien fleet were a little confusing at times (some names blended together) and there was a lot of time jumping between very signicant events, leaving some questions unanswered and admitly sidelined some characters... But I loved it!

The ending was satisfying and powerful, if a little abrupt - if there hadn't have been the addition of the short story at the end the final paragraph of the book may have been a little jarring, but this added heart and hope to the end of the trilogy. Plot decisions made sense and I didn't feel that any passages or characters weren't significant to the final outcome - not everyone can be part of a space battle after all.

I really don't understand the criticism about the political storylines and the action in the final battle - if you've made it this far in the series (nearly 40 hours before this book) you should know what to expect by now! This is a sci-fi at its most "realistic" and I'm heartbroken that it's over!

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