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Legend

Four Horsemen Tales, Book 1

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Legend

By: Christopher Woods
Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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About this listen

2018 Dragon Award Finalist for Best Military Sci-Fi Novel

In the era of the original Four Horsemen, there comes a Legend.

At a time when Humans were just starting to venture forth into the Galactic Union as mercenaries, Martin Quincy survived long enough to do something no one else had—he retired.

There was only one problem: He got bored.

After battling aliens for many years—killing aliens and getting paid—retirement didn’t suit him, and he decided to strap on the combat armor and go back to the stars. Along with his old friend Kal, Martin joined Cartwright’s Cavaliers, humanity’s best merc company. Life was exciting!

But he got bored. Again.

What does a "legend" do when even the merc life gets boring? He starts his own company! Can Martin form a merc company out of non-merc races and stand up for the downtrodden of the galaxy, or has his long string of good luck finally run out? One thing is for sure—with Torvasi and Andori troopers, and a Sirra’Kan princess as his partner, he won’t get bored again!

Includes Shattered Crucible, a bonus novella in The Four Horsemen series.

©2018 Seventh Seal Press (P)2018 Podium Publishing Fiction First Contact Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera Thriller & Suspense War & Military Exciting Military Fiction

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Good book, narrated well, but every chapter and scene has syllables or words missing at the start of the playback.

Well read, but ...

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this series is a catstrophy first book is amazing with perfect characters and good story and anything else you might expect in good space opera and I was ready for amazing series instead copleate disaster after since authors change and second book has nothing to do with first one expcept being same universe just a view into trerible and tragic alian life characters were good and story was ok but leads nowhere and with sad ending and third book is even worse is about incompetent Merc captain who can't even come up with any plan or idea and makes one mistake after another and with this being space opera you would think there is infinite possibilities to write about humans uniting with good aliens and fighting the bad ones to make a better feuture instead of depressing picture of humans Corp being traitors ,pirates and rapists who kidnap children of their own kind by the thousands to turn them to slaves or to labs for experiments did the author run out bad alien ideas?who wants to read a book about their own kind turning against their own in a time when there is whole Galaxy full of spiecies that are way more advenced and might by working against them humans are on the bottom of the food chain yet it's a book about humans versus humans

amazing first book with terrible others

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Although part of a greater Universe this is a great book to just jump into. Funny and fast paced action. Phenomenal characters that honestly make me want to jump into the entire universe. Honestly a brilliant piece of writing.

Friggin Legendary!

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I'm ashamed, that i did not know this earlier, i'm going to fix this

I'm ashamed

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I went into listening to this audiobook without much expectations, picking it mainly because the description peaked my interest. Thanks to keeping said expectations low, I wasn't disappointed. Neither was I blown away however.
The story is a standard action movie fare: witty, strong guy going on an adventure with equally witty companions. Guns blazing, lots of explosions, lots of action, it's a high testosterone n' energy package.
The characters are not much to speak of. I felt like they were quite one-dimensional, with most of them feeling the same. It did hurt the enjoyment quite a bit for me.
Both those things I mentioned above create a mixture called "B-Class action sci-fi schlock". It's a fun listen, if you can look past the paper thin characters and forgettable story, and are willing to just tune out the ol' brain cells and enjoy the ride.
I have to praise the narrator, though. It was thanks to his performance that I made it to the end. His ability to put on different voices for some of the characters helps alleviate boredom stemming from how forgettable they are - even if the main character sometimes sounds as if he's on the verge of crying.
Overall, it's just okay. Not amazing, not awful, just okay. If you have audible premium plus, give this one a listen. If not - save your credits/your money for something else.

Just Okay

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