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The Nelson Touch

Ark Royal, Book 2

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The Nelson Touch

By: Christopher G. Nuttall
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
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Ark Royal - the Royal Navy’s outdated space carrier - has won a smashing victory against the enigmatic aliens, capturing one of their starships and returning to Earth. Now, Admiral Theodore Smith and his crew are assigned to command a fleet charged with making a deep-penetration raid into alien territory, a fleet made up of carriers from four different nations. But with a crewman who isn't what he seems, untested pilots and international friction - and a new and dangerous alien plan - can Ted and his crew survive their mission...or will they die, alone and unremarked, hundreds of light years from home?

©2014 Christopher G. Nuttall (P)2014 Audible Inc. Military Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction
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Great fun space military drama. Live the sorry and characters. Performance is mostly very good, but I can't forgive the Scottish accent! "they're going to take us from behind captain"

Tom Clancy does Battlestar Galactica for the Brits

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The good:
Excluding accents - good narration.
Building the series in a way that makes me want to keep reading.
Deepening relationships and flawed characters. Always a welcome thing in a military space opera.
The ending.

The bad:
Caricature accents! French - Inspector Clouseau. Chinese AND Japanese - Charlie Chan. Scottish - Over the top Star Trek Scotty. American - Weak. Also Admiral Smith sometimes sounds like Admiral Ackbar. :-) Ralph Lister has a good "narrator voice", but accents? Shudder!

Same repetitive phrases as in the first book. (Couldn't disagree. Bloody nose. Sooner rather than later. The odds were staggeringly low/high). Helloo! Editor?

Lots of unexplained military/naval acronyms.

The royalty / nobility stuff takes up too much room. Getting old fast.

Book B+. Narration B-. Editing C. Ending A-.

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storyteller was less sexist with female voices. accents ok. Story was gripping at parts and ended with a great cliffhanger

Brilliant story! Can't wait for the next audiobook

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Quite nice to get a novel focusing on the British for once rather than an American tooting their own trumpet. I enjoyed the story and the narration was fine except for the Scottish character which was just grating to listen to as it seemed modelled on Scotty from Star Trek and was a terrible attempt at a Scottish accent.
The story moves on in the Arc Royal series, I can see there are many more to enjoy and I am keen to see where it goes. There are as others have commented some repetitive phrases but it doesn’t bother me too much as most people have the trait of saying things a certain way.
I thought certain characters were insightful and it does address some poignant issues that humans from all walks of life would experience both in the stress of battle and from being away on deployment.

A engaging listen.

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a good chunk of this book was repeatative going over and over kurts love life and also prince Henry's complicated career choice and love life. i want sliding. i want action. i want more intricate technical aspects etc. in my opinion it was a lazy on the side of the author. but picked up quite well towards the end. no more tissue dabbing writing. please. I'm a guy and I'm feeling hormonal after this. at least it's not as power woman as some of his stories.

a little too much mills&boon

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