Creepy Naughty Sunday School Junkfood

This is decent if you just need something new to listen to, otherwise I’d steer clear. The series doesn’t really get exciting at any point, there’s no high drama, the casting call stereotypes are awful, just about every possible punch is pulled and the erotic parts are frequent yet only implied. Even the AI backbone of the series never amounts more to more than super personal-assistant. There’s just a sea of predictable characters doing predictable things with the main character having coincidentally epic amounts of sex. Sometimes with just slightly yet still underage girls. Yeah. There’s that too. Cringe.

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Soft-core pornography disguised as a sci-fi series

I tried to like this book but it's just bad. I'll give you the short short version. Jake went to sleep as part of an experiment. Jake woke up 150 years later. Jake finds that he's the only desirable man left, and all the women want to share him. Cool. Yes, there's an AI...and alien tech..... but the story is about Jake and his ladies.

Full disclosure...I only made it through 8 hours of listening. Maybe it was going to get better.... but I doubt it.

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lets talk about how to rate a book

1 star didn't finish book.
2 stars finished book but didn't buy the next book.
3 stars may or may not have got the next book just meh.
4 stars good book. Bought next book and enjoyed series.
5 stars this is your crack. You are stalking the author and he/she may even have a restraining order on you. Examples are Brandon Sanderson, Pierce Brown and Terry Goodkind's early works.
let's stop giving bad books 5 star reviews.
The author is living out his horndog fantasy with the main character. if it's normal to have lots of wives then why is the main character the only one with multiple wives. also they never lose a fight.... ever. you are taking on a intergalactic empire with people who lived a 1800s lifestyle and using technology you don't even understand and yet you systematically kick their ass in every engagement? Hay guys here is a spoiler they win in the end. eisley and without any chance that they wouldn't.

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started okay, took a sharp turn for the worst.

it's a space harem and cannot recomend to any women as their voices are overshadowed by lust for the main character and all of them want to have his babies. Actual story plot gets pretty thin.I'm disappointed that the story couldn't be the main selling point.

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Flat characters, male point of view overwhelms

I listened to the whole thing. I admit to a curiosity regarding what might happened next, but I do not recommend this collection.

All the characters are flat caricatures that do not grow over the course of the story. While women are given a lot of credit for ability and assigned high level opportunities, the story teller's view of women leaves much to be desired. The women are presented as wanting attention, even needing attention. The primary character, a man, has a fantasy situation where he is manipulated by an intelligent computer into taking several sexual partners in order to birth heirs to his unique status. The women are presented as more eager than he is for this arrangement and are always the initiators of sexual activity.

There is continuing emphasis on women's beauty about the male gaze.

Sex is presented as a transactional relationship to show appreciation for something or to pave the way for making a request. Again, the transaction is always initiated by the women.

At one point a woman's motivation is described as arising from a "hormonal firestone."

The aliens do not get more than caricature attention, either. Except for some physical differences, the aliens are described as though they are humans with human-like cultures and human-motivatiions.

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Different than the same old

I like it a lot. It is a different and I like it a lot

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Not a fan

it sort of seemed like some horny highschool kid wrote it. The main character impregnates multiple women because his bloodline is the only one the AI's will listen to. He sets surprises because he is afraid an enemy with no spying capacity might pick something up? Lots of the fighting didn't make a lot of sense. No orbital strikes? Advanced races unable to fight for some reason? Just lots of holes for me. I liked the voice actor. Just don't think I will get anything else from the author.

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Great Series

I am glad I grabbed the box set for this one I have enjoyed listening to all four of the books and look forward to getting book 5.

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Engrossing

Couldn't put it down. Excellent narration. Exciting, I enjoyed this series as much as I have enjoyed Robert Heinlein.

The main character and AI are monsters.

I'm a great lover of military science fiction. This book started out above average, with an interesting setup. The main character gets locked in stasis. This leads to him appearing 100 years later after the aliens invaded and destroyed society, sending them back to the black powder days. Due to this, the genders start being inequal in population..

The main character eventually saves a group of women, mostly related to each other, from raiders and rapists. The supposed drama that I was expecting, is the often used sexual tension that comes from the military science fiction and how the chain of command prevents officers from instigating sexual relationships with those under their command and protection.

Usually, this pans out in either the main character, who's often a veteran, or actively in the military at the time, to resist the temptation to break the chain of command. Or, they find other ways to enter into the relationship, which respects the chain of command in some way.

Instead what has happened is that this author has chose to spend all this time setting up a science fiction novel with the express intention of presenting the situation where a mid-20 to early 30 year old is now in a committed six-way relationship with females that range from 16 17 and 18 years old of age. The story makes this out to be their idea, with him being the reluctant participant. While this whole entire situation has been manipulated by the AI as a benevolent benefactor. Unless the AI comes out as the actual evil antagonist of this series somehow, this is a horrible storyline, and I could only listen to it for so much.

This author has crafted a situation which took young vulnerable women who were almost raped and killed, who do not have a regular bed to sleep in. who are half starved and malnourished, who have no prospects of being with other men because of the gender inequality, and who even admitted to themselves and out loud that they would be fools not to want to be with him given the quality of life that he can give to them, and somehow ironically thinks that this means that it's their idea to be with him.

This is all played straight and made out to be the way things are now. Stay far away from this trash if you like the military scifi genre.
this author has set up a situation where literally 16 17-year-olds are f****** a 30-year-old man, so they can get three hot meals a day and sleep in a bed that's comfortable. if their entire prospect is to get pregnant by him as quickly as possible to ensure that their lives have a future. and in actuality, this ends up being one of the plans that the AI has. and one of the characters gets pregnant in the first few hours of the book, which is a hell of a thing given that she's 17.

this is a great book if you want to imagine yourself as an adult that would manipulate children into having sex with you.

the science fiction elements are sparse at best, typical fair that would have been interesting in the drama if it was written correctly. unfortunately given the fact that the main characters entire setup is to screw a harem of 17 year olds, the science fiction aspect actually falls pretty damn short. the guns make very little sense, the technology makes very little sense, the action scenes aren't very well done, and the descriptions are bad. the dialogue is stilted because it's trying to have them make this entire very strange situation okay, and I don't mean strange in the situation that they're in and so much strange that the author would bed take such amount of time to try to make this set up morally okay.

on top of that, they must have gotten the one narrator that would put up with this b*******, because he sounds borderline over the majority of his lines.

tldr; if you love military science fiction stay this series.