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Battle Cruiser
- Lost Colonies, Book 1
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
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 Our outdated navy investigates, both curious and fearful.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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- S. Morris
- 02-05-16
Simplistic But Accessible Sci-Fi
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.
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- John
- 12-07-16
Bit samy, samy, as Star Force.
Bit samy, samy, as Star Force. I read all these. and loved them. but this was too similar. Mr Larson you need to come up with new ideas.
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- GobiD
- 07-03-16
Awful Narration
The story is passable, another BV Larson novel with cutout characters and reasonably predictable plots. It's a little like visiting a well loved roller coaster, all the twists and turns are as you expect but it's still fun to ride.
What makes this a car crash of an audio book is the narration. I dislike giving negative criticism but just now and again one comes across a piece of work that defies logic and explanation. I dare say that Edoardo Ballerini is a talented narrator, but his delivery of this novel was completely ill judged. Almost every character voice was ridiculously melodramatic. The lead character was made to sound like a standoffish, entitled, prig. Any humour was completely missed at every opportunity, and some of the voices were mystifying, they would be saying one thing but the emotional delivery was saying something completely different. I started listening to this on a long car journey with my brother and we had to keep pausing the book as we couldn't believe the awful delivery. The only reason I listened all the way through was to hear if there was a plot twist to justify his delivery. That'll be a refund methinks.
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- Dimitar S.
- 06-01-16
Nice story
The author delivers amazing story as expected. The narrator is also good but i prefer when it`s done by Mark Boyett.
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- MarkM-D
- 31-05-16
Good storyline
This book is worth listening to, but you have to get over the narrator first. Shame it lets it down.
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- Geode
- 03-10-17
Terrable!!! Far from Larsons best!
I was hoping for a good listen with this book.
Unfortunately what you get is something that starts ok then gets slower and slower. By chapter4 you will be hoping the arrogant stuck up hero "Sparrow hawk" (who we are told ever other sentence is not) is killed off.
Sadly from what I have heard so far this book is not worth investing your time to listen to it.
Come on BV you can do better than this!!!!!
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- Louis
- 18-05-17
crap
crap boring and a waist of my money. I will never buy from this author again .
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- Martin
- 09-07-16
Need to stick with it
First few chapters were slow going and I'm not a big fan of way its written in the first person. that said, once my personal issues were removed and the story got going I grew to enjoy it.
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- Call me Bob
- 22-11-21
I give up, this is horrible
It's like a moronic version of "He said she said"
I cannot stand it anymore
Almost all of this book is just a series of imbecilic misunderstandings and the adventures of a naive, misunderstood but honorable captain fighting against all odds to do his duty.
The writing is childish.
The narrator is extremely annoying and bombastic.
The basic idea was interesting but it's either a conspiracy or idiocy that leads to everything. By the way things are going i expect the latter.
Just no.
I really liked his Star Force series but this is crap.
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- Mr A Baker
- 18-07-20
Well that was average.
So its SCI FI we have a space ship and a crew and an alien threat we have an single advanced ship found by our crew its up to them to save earth its um cut and paste adventures here no one stands out past a Stereotype. It might be because i like space adventures but absolutly nothing is new in this. I have given this at least a month since I finished it and no I cannot even remember the characters names none of it has stood out enough to be remembered.
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