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Shattered Will

Backyard Starship, Book 14

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Shattered Will

By: J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
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Earth is no longer alone, and Van isn't happy about it.

When the Equal Grasp and other unsavory aliens launch their plot to open humanity up to the stars—in the name of profit, of course—Van and his crew spring into action, fearing the fallout of a world gone mad.

With each passing event in his career, Van continues to unravel locked memories, held by Perry, that explain a family history far more violent than he ever imagined.

And the memories aren't focused on Van alone. They tell a tale of war in the stars—a war that left the Peacemakers in shambles, the GKU reeling, and three warrior races hiding among the deep.

But first, there's the small matter of aliens in Wisconsin... and they're playing games in Van's backyard.

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Binged on listening to this , Just painful to wait for the next , keep them coming and the twists in the stories .

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But the story wasn't as good as previous titles, nothing major seems to happen, it was quite boring tbh and a bit meandering.
I'm hoping this installment is setting up for something more meaty in the next book. Fingers crossed.

Good narration as always

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it's still so good, I've already pre-ordered the next book. The only sad part is it'll take it entire month to see what happens next :(

it's still so good, see you next month

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I love the fact that the characters continue to be likable, it’s poses questions should be answered if we are to advance of the species, and within each surrealism is Harry Cherry

Gimme moa. I love my space soap!

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Generally I quite like this series (wouldn't be 14 books deep in it otherwise), but I do have one issue with it:

It's one thing to make references to popular culture, some people just dislike them in general, but I'm not one of them.

However, the obsession this series has with always indicating its references with with figurative flashing neon signs and arrows is truly obnoxious: "hey, just in case you didn't notice notice, I just referenced Arthur. C Clarke, See, aren't I clever?" The reference may have been clever, but it became dumb the moment it was pointed out like that...

Now, you may think, what if people don't know the reference? The thing is, if someone doesn't know the thing being referenced, it doesn't really help to point it out, it doesn't magically make a reference funny to know that it is a reference, you usually have to actually experienced the thing being referenced, if you haven't it's pretty pointless to be told that it's a reference.

Pop-culture references.

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