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Lines of Departure

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By: Marko Kloos
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the solar system....

Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is Commonwealth Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson. He dreams of dropping out of the service one day alongside his pilot girlfriend, but as warfare consumes entire planets and conditions on Earth deteriorate, he wonders if there will be anywhere left for them to go.

After surviving a disastrous spaceborne assault, Grayson is reassigned to a ship bound for a distant colony - and packed with malcontents and troublemakers. His most dangerous battle has just begun.

In this sequel to the best-selling Terms of Enlistment, a weary soldier must fight to prevent the downfall of his species...or bear witness to humanity’s last fleeting breaths.

©2014 Marko Kloos (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Military Science Fiction Fiction Solar System War
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Listened to book one, and went straight on to book 2. 3 is downloading as I type.
Highly addictive listening. Love the plot and main character, recommend a listen.

Addictive

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I am going straight on to the third one in the series got to see what happens

As good as the first

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I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I'm a fan of military sci-fi as it is and this delivered on those terms. Lots of action, acronyms and concepts but what really suprised me was the humanity of it. No spoilers but the portrayal of the society is a bit more critical than most mil sci-fi. The second half particularly put me in mind of Babylon 5 at it's peak. Outstanding.

Not your usual military Sci-fi

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I love the books and am listening my way through the audiobooks during my commute.

This is great sci fi, not quite space opera but the series as a whole certainly builds up to one.

My main gripe is really just the narrator. He only has a handful of different voices and his choices about where to apply them seem completely random. For me the worst is Chief Kofka, who he gives that stupid higher pitched overly done new Yorker accent. For someone who's read the books and knows how important the Chief will become, this really annoyed me.

Another bizarre choice was Contestable Guest. Someone who's described as an absolute unit of a man, to which the narrator gives a vaguely feminine, soft voice. What's even weirder is that I've started listening to the next book and he gives the same character a deep, gruff Texan accent that sounds much more appropriate.

I know I'm probably alone in this, but I find this narrator vaguely irritating and am listening on purely because I know how good the stories are.

Narrator's limited range of voices

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I really enjoyed the first book so decided I'd continue, glad I did. Kloos picks up the story in excellent fashion and delivers a compelling and engaging story from start to finish. Daniels does an excellent job of the narration, keeping track of numerous characters with believable and consistent narration, so much so that I'll be finishing the series in audio form over written probably. what I like about this series is how detailed Kloos gets without bogging things down, really makes me think about how these types of scenarios or technological challenges would play out. looking forward to number 3!

Great story, loved this installment

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