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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 Our outdated navy investigates, both curious and fearful.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.
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- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 369
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 341
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Story4 out of 5 stars 340
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
If it's peace you want don't ever be Jon Ryan. He's lived two billion years in the android host he transferred to when asked to save humankind. Darn thing won't wear out. Since successfully ensuring the survival of the population of doomed Earth, Jon wanted to die. He was switched off with the promise of never being powered up again. Yeah, Jon's never been that kind of lucky. He was forced to fight and win a war with the most powerful enemy he'd ever faced, the Berrillians. Then he longed for rest.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just awful, written for 10 year olds.
- By Amazon Customer on 24-06-20
Summary
The Hundred Worlds have withstood invasion by the relentless Hok for decades. The human worlds are strong, but the Hok have the resources of a thousand planets behind them, and their fleets attack in endless waves.
The long war has transformed the Hundred Worlds into heavily fortified star systems. Their economies are geared for military output, and they raise specialized soldiers to save our species. Assault Captain Derek Straker is one such man among many. Genetically sculpted to drive a mech-suit as if he wears a second skin, he must find a path to victory. It's a battle in which he'll never admit defeat, but not even Straker knows the dark truth behind this titanic struggle. With Lieutenant Carla Engels piloting, Starship Liberator explores enemy territory in search of answers.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- SuzyDiamond
- 04-12-17
Good story, poor writing
I was so, so disappointed with this. Read lots of other BV Larson but this one is so clearly mostly written by someone else and it’s just not the same. There’s so much technical description you just lose sight of what’s supposed to be going on. Shan’t be buying any more in this series.
23 people found this helpful
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- Pete
- 22-08-17
Flat and poorly performed
Average story, poorly performed... this book feels like it w as written by a 10 year old with too obvious wordplay and flat characters. The narrator didn't help with unemotional delivery and annoying one size fits all accents.
19 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Poppey
- 05-10-17
Good start
Liked this first book in the series very much. However, there were one or two sections which were not so great. Too much technicality in one or two sections which seemed to go on and made for boredom' hence only 4 stars.
Apart from the boring bits, narration was, as always, very good with Mark Boyett and worth the credit.
4 people found this helpful
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- Colm Mclaughlin
- 31-07-18
mediocre
Standard space adventure, that follows the standard formula. There was nothing particularly bad with the book but then again there was nothing particularly good or interesting about it.
2 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- MR C.
- 23-04-18
really boring
Just couldn't get into this book. Very boring I think BV Larson really needs to learn it's about quality and not quantity and stop turning up ten dozen books a year. a very generic military science fiction nothing compelling in this book whatsoever good book if you've got insomnia and you want to go to sleep.
one of his best books is his first I think it's called Swarm that's a good book and a good series
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- david
- 08-02-18
good read
book one and I enjoyed it. the main character is a little up and down but all of them combined is good.
2 people found this helpful
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- David
- 25-02-18
I did not enjoy this book
Really did not like this. Predictable, dull, littered with cliches and unabashed politicking. I'll be avoiding books by the author in future
1 person found this helpful
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- CJSILV
- 10-09-19
great book 😀
loved the book story was great Love the narration cant wait to read the next book
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- Anonymous User
- 26-01-19
give it a go
I looked at the reviews of this from fellow members and I must agree with some of the comments such as ... the lack or character building however this book is got me hooked after the first 3 hours, so just give it a go you might like it.
My only other issue is that all the characters sound like Undying mercenaries characters but I loved those books as well.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Roger Newton-Darby
- 04-01-19
a great beginning
loved it, this story has lots of depth and great characters more more more more more,
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- Jesper
- 03-05-17
Super author team fails
Would you try another book from B. V. Larson and David VanDyke and/or Mark Boyett?
Thats a no brainer! They rock (usually)
What do you think your next listen will be?
Something not from this series!
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
It was pretty boring! Not because nothing happens, but because there is no reason to care about the outcome.
Any additional comments?
The book dives direct into action and just keeps going. Action is fun but only when you care who dies and who lives. The book literally begins with NO character development and throughout the book there is almost none to be found. The familiar voice of Mark Boyett does help as does his professional reading, but nowhere near enough to compensate for the lack of content.
Was this book an experiment? Did they want to see who little character development you can possibly get away with? I was beginning to think these two writers were infallible, a sure thing, but I guess they are just human.
Final word: DONT BUY!
130 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- jon beach
- 30-05-18
I just don't care
I want to start by saying the guy reading did an amazing job! But there just isn't enough depth of story here for me to care. I'm 3/4 of the way through and I just can't anymore.
18 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- rhodry
- 24-05-17
Typical Larson. With slow start though.
First half is somewhat confusing as a lot happens without understanding the context of it. Roughly, through the half, things start come together and you can see what these authors are good at. Mark Boyett is great as always.
11 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Brian G.
- 09-05-17
same old story
Larson keeps writing the same story and just calling it different names. it was fun the first few times, but it's getting old. Can we get some new original material?
71 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- jaka
- 07-01-18
Not a B.V Larson / Mark Boyett book.
I've purchased and listened to most of B.V Larson's books/series on Audible performed by Mark Boyett (about a dozen books) and they're great. If you love a thoroughly fleshed out sci-fi universe with enough detail in the tech for the story and combat to make sense without being burdensome you can't go wrong with them. And if like me, you enjoy futuristic Starship Troopers style combat (the book not the movie) you'll love they're work as well. ...This is not the same. It's garbage. Halfway in I gave up. Vandyke sucks and an outside (his) influence is clearly evident. I'll reread Iain Banks, Peter F. Hamilton, and Alistair Reynolds before I venture out again. This books was such a waste of time.
4 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- D M
- 16-07-17
A promising introduction to a new sci-fi series
Firstly, Mark Boyett is one of my favorite narrators. He adds personality to the characters and the story without going too over the top.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit and look forward to the next in the series. I don't believe it's available in audiobook yet so I will probably read it now then listen to it at a later time.
The characters in the story are complex and imperfect and you find yourself worrying about what happens to them maybe with the exception of Loco who gets a little annoying at times for all the wrong reasons.
The whole mutual, unmutual debate sounds a bit like the Orwellion socialism in the book '1984'. Its understandable the authors are laying a foundation to the story but I hope not to hear so much about mutuality in the future books.
In spite of the few things I commented on I highly recommend this book especially if you're looking for a new series to follow.
17 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Tuckero23
- 24-05-17
Eh......
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
No, I wound not recommend this book
Would you ever listen to anything by B. V. Larson and David VanDyke again?
I might, just not the rest of this series
What does Mark Boyett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He's a good narrator
Was Starship Liberator worth the listening time?
No
Any additional comments?
Copy's Enders game in the beginning, then gets boring
21 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- JD Business
- 24-09-17
Very, Slow... Descriptive to the point of Sleep.!
A struggle to finish, not your normal B.V. Larson read... The plot never really gets going, but you will never lack for details as this book is so long winded, with it's long descriptive narratives, repeated details and failure to catch and hold the readers attention... Save this one for when you need sleep, a cheap prescription for falling off... More boring than counting sheep.
9 people found this helpful
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- Barry Clark
- 14-09-17
Nice listen
Started simple and built from there. Great for listeners that aren't into hard/high sci-fi. Will get next book.
2 people found this helpful
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- Tom
- 17-07-17
always on the edge of my seat.
Streyker delivers in this first book. really looking forward to the next book and the liberation of the human race.
2 people found this helpful