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Renegades

Expeditionary Force, Book 7

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The battle-scarred star carrier Flying Dutchman is finally on her way back to Earth, after an exceptionally successful series of missions that have once again saved the world.

The ship needs a serious refit, and her exhausted crew just wants a break from constant clandestine warfare against a vicious and superior enemy. Wishes come true, right? Not for the Merry Band of Pirates.

Includes special bonus note from the author.

©2018 Craig Alanson (P)2019 Podium Publishing Adventure Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera Witty
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I am a massive fan of this series. I have listened to the series multiple times. I am going to try and leave a review without any major spoilers.

Joe has what sounds like an impossible task, how will he come up with a plan? You will have to listen to find out.

Make sure you have listened to the previous in the series. R.C Bray’s voice really does this book justice.

Minor spoilers ahead. There are a couple of new characters, to change things a little. I love the banter between Joe and Skippy. I’m not sure if it’s the stress of the impossible task or Joe struggles to deal with the beer can I get a slight hint of anger towards Skippy. I can completely understand this!

I’m interested to see how much longer the Flying Dutchman lasts. It has changed so much since they first captured it. However I feel they need an upgrade soon!

Now I have to wait for the next book.

Trust the awesomeness!

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This time Alanson gets everything right. I criticised the last installment due to the lack of Skippy but boy did this one make up for it. I actually thought he may have been running out of ideas but this one lays foundations for larger story line arches.
He even seems to be getting better at making interesting puzzles to solve. I texted finding myself thinking would this thing they have overlooked help solve that bigger problem.
I think the only issue he has at the moment is that Skippy has already pushed the current ship to its limits and if anything went wrong all the protagonists would die (or float off into space) but if he finds a way to allow people to get beaten up and escape without a Skippy miracle (cough commandeering a new ship cough) it might allow even greater potential for the pirates dealing with bigger, riskier monkey brained ideas.
Though I am no writer so I shouldn't comment on this great series which I hope keeps on coming as R.C. Bray's Skippy voice never fails to put a smile on my face.

Behold the awesomeness

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I love this series of books, the next ExForce is the release I look forward to most and I abandon what I am listening to the day it comes out and I’ve never been disappointed. I still really liked this latest instalment but this time I did have criticisms, hopefully constructive ones.

Firstly the change of crew with leaving major characters out that we’ve grown to love, I could have lived with it except for the fact that the new characters barely got a look in and we barely even got to learn more about the returning lesser known characters.

Secondly the story felt very rushed, like we were racing through one scene just to get to the next, especially the battle with the two “strongest ships in the galaxy” which zipped by in the blink of an eye, it just didn’t feel right. In fact it felt a little like this whole book was just getting the Maxolhx threat out of the way so the story can move on to the next thing, presumably discovering what happened with the ancients.

I don’t know, I still enjoyed listening but something just felt “off” with it. Sorry Craig, still love all your books and will buy the new Mavericks book and the next ExForce on release day but this one hit just a little off the mark for me.

You are NOT gonna like this!

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I love this books. I do have to say this one start really slow. I was not really fully engaged untill like 10 hours in

super slow start

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...as always. These installments always seems so short, but they are always worth the wait.

Awesomeness...

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