Battle Cruiser

Lost Colonies, Book 1

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Battle Cruiser

By: B. V. Larson

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

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One starship will either save Earth or destroy her.

A century ago our star erupted, destroying Earth's wormhole network and closing off trade with her colonized planets. After being out of contact with the younger worlds for so many years, Humanity is shocked when a huge ship appears at the edge of the solar system. Our outdated navy investigates, both curious and fearful. What they learn from the massive vessel shocks the planet. The lost colonies have survived - but the reunion isn't going to be a happy one. Our descendants are vastly superior in the art of warfare. Worse, there are other beings undreamed of beyond the human frontier: strange, unfathomable...alien.

Battle cruiser Defiant, the first capital ship to darken Earth's skies, is tasked with exploring new passages to the younger planets. Old Earth must reunite with her children...but can humanity survive the inevitable conflicts? Captain William Sparhawk, determined to follow a path of honor and truthfulness, dares to rise to the challenge. Battle Cruiser is a military science fiction novel by best-selling author B. V. Larson.

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I had just completed reading the lengthy and fairly heavy Fear Saga and so decided it was time for some lighter fare. I spotted Battle Cruiser from B V Larson and having read and very much liked both the Star Force and Undying Mercenaries series of books from this author, I decided to choose Batlecruiser as its premise sounded interesting. Given just how much I've liked Larsson's other work, I didn't bother reading any reviews prior to opting to purchase this title and despite the narrator being different from the previous Larson books listened to in the form of Eduardo Ballerini, I decided to get this book.

Having been used to the excellent Mark Boyett's narration, I did find it a little strange to be listening to a Larson book from a new narrator. however, this was offset by the fact that this was a totally new and unconnected story to the other two series' of books from Larson I'd read so in a way helped mark this story as something totally new. Ballerini's narration is crisp and competent but he lacks the range of character voices which means that several male characters sound identical. he is also less able to render convincing female characters too but that is less of an issue. The thing that struck me very quickly into reading this story was how clipped and odd the key characters dialogue is. William Sparhawk, his voice and the way he speaks and often acts is rather reminiscent of a 1930's action hero. it seems rather incongruous to hear lines delivered in quite such an old fashioned style. To further bolster the image I had in my mind of said 1930's story, I found most dialogue to be rather simplistic and lacked sophistication to the extent that I had to wonder if this story was either written for a younger target audience or was deliberately penned like this as a tongue firmly in cheek adventure rather like the old Flash Gordon serials. I half expected Sparhawk to come out with something like "You're a cad and a bounder sir!" . This story is quite far removed from the much more visceral, gritty and often foreboding stories from Larson which makes me further believe that this book was intended to introduce a younger audience to Larson's works.

I still found this story mildly interesting and will follow the series if nothing else if not to see how things pan out. I can't say this is a bad book but it is quite far removed from Larson's other work that it might not appeal to the more hardened Larson fans out there. Given just how sophisticated children are these days I would say that Battle Cruiser might be suitable for somewhere around a 13 year old to get their first taste of an accessible story that will ease them into the other, darker science fiction out there.

If you're in the market for some "sci-fi light" or have not tried a book of this genre before and just want a gentle start in this field then Battle Cruiser might just be for you. if you're a fan of books in the Undying Mercenaries series from Larson then you probably will not like this story so could give this one a miss.