The Forever

Not so great...

Let’s start with Galaxy Outlaws was way better if your looking for a fun sci-fi crew of misfits and Expeditionary Force has the AI you need to hear. This book has a weak plot with huge holes in the storyline. The main character’s banter is reminiscent of deadpool if deadpool was written by a 14 year old. Finally there is a heavy and unnecessary political slant.

5 of 6 people found this review helpful

Great read!!

I enjoyed this book. Fast paced with lots of action and interesting technology. Can't wait for the rest of the books to come to audible.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Fun and Entertaining

This book was just plain enjoyable. The dialog was fantastic (and often humorous), and I enjoyed the pace. Things happened, there was dialog, and then other things happened. No endless pontificating and shallow dialog.

Some reviews complain that this book has unbelievable (and even silly) plot elements. Yep - it sure does. But, so what? It is an enjoyable read.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Weak story

Weak on character development, plot, and overall creativity. Think of it as chewing gum sci-fi.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Yes, It's Worth Your Coveted Audible Credit...

Truly a very enjoyable read - It should be classified as a Space Opera with a dash of "We Are Legion" thrown in. Broad of scope, this epic listen crosses the decades of time and space, and offers a wildly fun ride with a diverse cast.

So, take out your wallet. Pull out your Audible credit. Blow the dust off of it, and use it on this great audio book.

It's well worth it.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

was great fun until...(spoilers}

current political references were thrown into the story. also painting the United States in such a negative light during the OBVIOUS propaganda push (UN=global agenda being the good guys) really put a sour taste in my mouth. if the authors had but left it pure science fiction and not unashamedly name dropped current political actors, it would have been an enjoyable story. I, and I'm sure many others like me, enjoy this genre to escape our realities, if only for a brief time. so to interject such a blatant propaganda theme into the story completely diluted it. the narrator was great tho. he was the only reason I was able to slog through its entirety. he made this crap bearable... please give that man a raise. I'm off to get my money back... and I don't recommend spending yours on this.

Surprised me! Pure fun.

This book is all about delivering a fun and entertaining story. It doesn't disappoint. The story pulls you in and keeps your attention. It's a 2 for 1 to boot. Worth a credit in my book.

this was very entertaining.

yes, as a previous reviewer stated, it does seem to follow on the coat tails of the bobiverse books, but does that mean it's taboo to write a book about space exploration in order to save humanity? I think not, so pull your blinders off, stop trying to compare storylines, and just enjoy the story and performance for what it is, and in my opinion it's better than the Bob books, but then that's the beauty of subjective behaviors of human beings, live it, hate it, what ev's. 17+ hours of story performed by a good narrator? totally worth the credit

Ridiculous. Predictable. All Ex Machina.

Avoid This book.

This book feels like it was trying to ride the coattails of "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" Very similar ideas that are poorly executed. AS well as a lot of other "inspired" ideas from much better novels.

To start, The Protagonist is suppose to be one of mankind's "best". He is one of a few astronauts selected to find a place for humankind to relocate and save the species. So, that being said, it is ridiculous for him to be so ignorant of many obvious solutions to obstacles in this book. One of the major problems is, is that the author writes himself into a corner by providing the protagonist with too much over powered equipment. Going into spoilers a bit here, but this needs to be said because of how ridiculous it is. The first alien race the protagonist encounters, is what is essentially an alien god race. They don't want to "help" the humans and just want to be left alone. They wont use their almighty alien god magic to help humanity or provide them with knowledge on how they can be saved because morality is strictly a human concept that they themselves don't have. Instead for some asinine reason, they decide to give the protagonist a multipurpose device that will tell him the details of anything it touches and can use threads like octopus arms and is super strong so it can get him out of most problems with a bit of imagination. This device, if anyone tries to study it, will self-destruct so no one can replicate it. They also provide him with a super alien gun so he can protect this device so no one can steal it from him and what? study it and replicate it? But isn't that what the self-destruct is for? The Protagonist also never likes using his super alien space gun because he rather "save" it as his ace in the hole and doesn't want anyone else to know he has it.

He then gets captured by an alien race, with inferior technology, and yet, he doesn't want to use his alien tech to escape because that would be too easy and this book needs tension. Instead the author spends like 3 chapters with him running away and ultimately realizing. Oh. Duh. I can just have my ship's A.I. Pilot the shuttle for me and come rescue me(His super intelligent A.I. did not even think of this). There is no reason for him, an astronaut, who early in the book claimed to have studied every knook and krany of his ship before they launched and knows ALL of its features, forget this one detail that woulda saved him days of hassle. no. and the fact that the A.I. didn't think of it, is also just absurd.

Also he visits a planet where there are varying populations of aliens that look like different earth snack foods. <---DUMB.

ALso ALso. He gets Alien god exmachina'd 3 times. they randomly gift him with soooooooooo much tech. It is absurd they still tried to evacuate earth instead of saving it. Given the technology they had access to. I could list a dozen ways they coulda saved earth and never had to evacuate the planet at all.

ALso Also Also, The president in the future is some insane super dictator. And the protagonist, instead of using his magic unbeatable alien tech to stop him, He lets the human resistance struggle with fighting him and focuses on his own problems.

Overall, The book has no real tension since the protagonist has ultimately, no weaknesses and power that no normal being can contend with. The only tension comes from the author forcing what should be smart characters, to act dumb and limit themselves only because the obvious easy solutions woulda made this book 1/3 it size.

2 of 4 people found this review helpful

Predictable

Another interesting take on the mind transfer idea, although the idea falls a bit flat. The plots & twists in the book are somewhat predictable. I do not believe the characters develop or change in the course of the book and predictably the 'evil' in the book is just pure evil without any justifications or reasoning behind being 'evil'

Overall this is a nice book but not spectacular which is why I gave only 4 points to the story category.
I wonder if book 2 will be significantly better.