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Renegade
- Spiral Wars, Book 1
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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Summary
One thousand years after Earth was destroyed in an unprovoked attack, humanity has emerged victorious from a series of terrible wars to assure its place in the galaxy. But during celebrations on humanity’s new Homeworld, the legendary Captain Pantillo of the battle carrier Phoenix is court-martialed then killed, and his deputy, Lieutenant Commander Erik Debogande, the heir to humanity’s most powerful industrial family, is framed for his murder. Assisted by Phoenix’s marine commander Trace Thakur, Erik and Phoenix are forced to go on the run as they seek to unravel the conspiracy behind their Captain’s demise, pursued to the death by their own fleet. What they discover about the truth behind the wars and the nature of humanity’s ancient alien allies will shake the sentient galaxy to its core.
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- Andrew J Chamberlain
- 07-02-21
Aside from the occasional infodump, a pretty good
A reasonably entertaining story, leans towards military sci fi with fairly sketchy characters but if you like space combat and a pleasing level of detail you'll enjoy this one. The fact that it's John Lee narrating gives this a definite 'Peter F Hamilton' vibe, but it is more of a space shoot up and a bit less subtle than Hamilton's work. But if you want a sci fi romp that has a solidly researched feel to it, this one should be good for you.
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- Ian
- 26-11-17
Good Story But . . .
Although I enjoyed the story, the narrator sounded like someone from a 1950's Amateur Theatre Company and it almost ruined it for me.
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- Peter Richardson
- 05-02-16
Excellent
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Excellent listen. More volumes please. I need to know what happens next. You can't leave the story unfinished!
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- A young man
- 06-06-20
The start of something big.
No spoilers:
The sett-up:
The human race has long since joined the other space fairing races in the spiral galaxy. We come into the story as the human race and it's allies celebrate their victory in a massive war. On the surface this should be the start of a long peaceful age...but trouble is brewing.
Very much a book made for an epic scale. Numerous races, thousands of years of history, galaxy spanning politics and massive spaceships.
The downside is that it is very exposition heavy, and it's a lot to keep track of while new information is continuously getting added to the pile. The characters are generally well written and easy to follow along with.
Might be easier to keep track of everything with a text version instead. Not a light read, but a good one. would recommend.
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- Mara
- 24-07-17
Don't be scared of politics, it's full of action!
Great quality of the story, great narrator and interesting from start to finish. Going to listen to the next book without a pause.
If you're like me and are not sure if to listen to this book because it sounds like it will have a lot of politics involved, put your worries aside. I hate politics, but I loved the book. The author knows how to present a story - to involve you with the characters and to put high action and a lot of surprises in between the setting of the world situation and politics, not letting you even think of falling asleep at too long parts of too deep descriptions. Perfectly balanced which counts for a quality story building.
It seems like the author has saved quite some bunch of secrets for us to discover in the next book, so I expect for it to be as good! We'll see!
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- David
- 06-06-18
After 2 hours of listening... it's just boring...
Nothing happens.. there's nothing exciting and there are just too many characters introduced, as a result I can recall 1 character name 'Eric', but I feel no connection with the character. I understand the writer is trying to give the readers some background but it's endless information.
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- Billie Thompson
- 25-03-16
Slow start, awesome climax
A narrator I was familiar with and who always gives good performances.
Story was a little slow to get started but it set the scene for a brilliant climax
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- Call me Bob
- 27-09-21
OK but somehow hollow
I do not know what it is about this book nut it did not get me hooked at all.
It should have all the ingredients but somehow I couldn't care less about what happens.
Also finished the 2'nd book and it is the same.
Will stop there with the series but there is nothing I can put my finger on and say "This is why it's so lame."
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- Bob
- 11-12-20
Pretty Good after first two chapters
Initially I was annoyed by the wooden dialogue in the first chapter and lack of distinguishing characteristics and voices. Then something happened at the end of the second part. The narrators voice became variable with a range that made of listening easy. The plot warmed up and characters assumed depth. Further in I found that the peripheral characters were not taken for granted and had real views and doubts. A good yarn
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- Gerrard
- 28-11-22
Not as bad as you first think
I quickly began to dispise the narrator of this tale but once you get into the storyline, the annoyance fades into the background (after a few hours) and it becomes more enjoyable. I didn't think I'd say this but I will continue with book 2 and see how it goes.
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