Excellent entertainment

This is a good story well told with lots of SiFi to keep the interest. Moves along at a brisk pace with top class narration

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enjoyed

once started couldn't put it down. listened to the whole book in one sitting. .

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Who is the enemy.

The author Dietmar Wehr has written a space war series which is so full of action, twists and unanswered questions as of yet.

Luke Daniels narrates this book and its characters beautifully.


My recommendations !

Oded Ostfeld.

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Easy listen

Great performance of the narrator but the physics are a bit underrated and the most depth in character comes from an AI. Easy listen but not phenomenal

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Great book 📖

Great book this is the second time I’ve listened to this book and I think it’s great love the and the narration looking forward to listening to the next one. I highly recommend this book.

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Not bad but...

It took a while to get in to the story but by the end of the book I couldn't stop listening.

The reason for only 3 stars is because the slow start and the over use of ship codes and designations it felt at one point someone was reading me a tech manual.

The narrator as well was hard to follow for some parts of the book he seemed to be in a hurry to finish.

That being said the story got good so I have brought the next book to see how the series goes...

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Great Listen

Any additional comments?

TL;DR: A well written hard sci-fi story with smart characters and unknown alien enemy that has them second guessing at every encounter.


Review Proper

The science part trys to be a realistic as possible but does include hyperspace to get around the long distances. The split is like that found in the Lost Fleet series but the battle fields feel smaller. Thats because the battles are more like submarine clashes with passive and active scanning then with high resolution optics. The story doesn't give a timeline from the present day but the technology is well behind that found in the Lost Fleet. Its worth noting that, if your wondering why they can't just see each other. For example 7000 km/s is considered fast and no human manned ships can get close to 0.1 the speed of light.

The story is split between tense tactial battles and high level stratigic planning. The best comparison would be the Dune series (especially the last two books) as to how stratigic planning is handled. The main character Shilo is a smart man himself and does well in both situations. The visions are kind of like John Geary's flashes of inspiration in tactical effect but the story isn't all about them. The book is written so that you have more to sink your teeth into then just a chain of visions. There are some suprising plot threads introduced that make the story progressively more interesting as well.

The narration is good and solid. Its not excellent like that found in the King Killer Chronicles but I'd say its almost on par with that found in the Lost Fleet. But the list of characters is relatively small at this point and are all either of an Asian, Russian or of North American heritage. You might notice that the narrator reads a little quickly but it makes the tactical battles intense with all the data coming at the character while having to make quick, well thought out decisions. I haven't come across any other books that try to do that and I'm impressed with how its done.

You need to know though that the book has been split into two parts which are bought seperatley. I'd wait until you can buy both as the first leaves you with a really tense cliff hanger

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excellent story

worth downloading plenty action and some humor
enjoyable story looking forward to next installmen hope it lives upto this one

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Decent enough story but awful emotionless naration

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The story is quite good. It is well paced and infers it's trying to be hard science. Catch is occasionally there are holes without looking for them, plus the story only works by the main character having 4th wall moments at critical moments. Still the cliff hanger ending indicates this might not carry on through the rest of the series.

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Luke Daniels?

Anyone. He reads this book as if it were an instruction manual. No emotions, flat, toneless, only changing for a few characters and not even being particularly good with those either.

Possibly the worst piece of audio book narration I've ever encountered.

If this book were a film would you go see it?

Only possibly. I think the plot line 4th wall bits would make any film too weak. Still Hollywood has churned out far worse.

Any additional comments?

The book is not bad, in some respects it's quite good (how it carries on beyond I don't know), however it is very badly let down by the narration, and my score part reflects that.

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