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The Hangman's Daughter

The Bastard Legion, Book 1

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The Hangman's Daughter

By: Gavin Smith
Narrated by: Amy Finnegan
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About this listen

Four hundred years in the future, the most dangerous criminals are kept in suspended animation aboard prison ships and 'rehabilitated' in a shared virtual reality environment. But Miska Storrow, a thief and hacker with a background in black ops, has stolen one of these ships, The Hangman's Daughter, and made it her own. Controlled by explosive collars and trained in virtual reality by the electronic ghost of a dead marine sergeant, the thieves, gangsters, murderers, and worse are transformed into Miska's own private indentured army: the Bastard Legion. Are the mercenaries just for fun and profit, or does Miska have a hidden purpose connected to her covert past?

©2017 Gavin Smith (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Action & Adventure Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera Crime Technology Feel-Good Computer Science Thief

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I found this a bit of a struggle. The characters are a little wooden and a little too obvious. The storyline is okay-ish, but I do wish writers wouldn't sacrifice forward momentum with expositional back story.

Action thriller sci-fi

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Good first book setting up the main story line and characters, but, to me it is a little predictable and you can see where the other may lead. I hope this is not the case and look forward to the next chapter and more characters who we will either love or hate.
Amy Finnegan did the reading justice and was a pleasure to listen to, hopefully she read the next instalment of this series.

Good story for a first chapter

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I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the book it was read very well put me into the spaceship and the asteroid mines.

Great book Gavin I can't wait for the sequel.

Fantastic Book

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Well it seemed to be going along quite nicely and then she did that time slip thing, back 6 months and then I was totally confused for the entire rest of the book. This whole 'before' thing really isn't my cup of tea. Lots of unusual words and concepts too. I don't like to have to think when I'm listening to a story, I listen whilst I'm driving generally and thus was just very difficult to keep track of.

Confused

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It was ok, I guess. Not brilliant, not terrible. Bubblegum sci-fi written for the Netflix generation. I sing think I'll bother with book 2.

Mediocre

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