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Midst Toil and Tribulation

Safehold Series, Book 6

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David Weber's New York Times bestselling Safehold series of military Science Fiction adventure, which began with Off Armageddon Reef, continues with Midst Toil and Tribulation

WAR AND FAMINE

Once the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the kingdoms of Safehold. Then, after centuries of stasis, the island kingdom of Charis began to defy the edicts of Mother Church—egged on, some say, by the mysterious warrior-monk Merlin Athrawes, who enjoys the Charisian royal family's absolute trust.

What vanishingly few people know is that Merlin is the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which aliens destroyed Earth...and that since awakening, his task has been to restart the history of the long-hidden human race.

Now, reeling from the wars and intrigues that have cascaded from Charis's declaration of independence, the Republic of Siddermark slides into chaos. The Church has engineered a rebellion, and Siddermark's all-important harvest is at risk. King Cayleb and Queen Sharleyan struggle to stabilize their ally, which will mean sending troops—but, even more importantly, preventing famine. For mass starvation in Safehold's breadbasket is a threat even more ominous than civil war...

©2012 David Weber (P)2012 Macmillan Audio Adventure Fantasy Fiction Military Royalty Science Fiction War
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I understand narrators can change between books especially in a long series like safehold but one thing I cannot forgive is the lazy way this narrator doesn't even try to pronounce names and places the correct way as per the previous 5 books. one example the Duke of Thirsk becomes the Duke of thrisk. and its not charis emphasising the ch.

Other than that another good book from Mr Weber. You really do need to read them in order though.

Usual David Weber goodstuff let down by lazy narrator.

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a wonderfully evocative story. much more personal than the Harrington series, but still as interesting. looking forwards to the next one.

fantastic!

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Just a fantastic addition to the series! Well worth a read and can't wait for the next one!

Amazballz!!!

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Kevin T Collins sounds as if he is about to burst into tears every moment. In the beginning I thought it might be just him describing the horrible details of religious fighting but his tone never changes after that . Really disappointed.

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I have really enjoyed this series. A pleasant easy going SciFi Fantasy epic going no where in particular, but still very enjoyable and so easy to listen to. I saw one comment from someone else about the poor narration - but I thought it was pretty easy on the ears myself. This is just such good quality escapism and I always look forward to the next one in the series coming along. I am amazed how prolific DW is, but I am not complaining. I am watching for the next one from DW.

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