Great Performance

The more you listen to this series the better it gets, when you add writing like this along with a great narrator you get a joy to to listen to.
The titanborn have became very real and their plight and quest for revenge have become something I believe in if of course they were real.
Although this has became one of the great series I still look at how some more established authors may have been helped by Brunos vision and perhaps it's not just good writing but something that could happen.
5 stars all the way

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Better than book 2

I liked the switching between graves and kale chapters but overall I found none of the characters sympathetic which left uncaring as to what happened to them

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ok

another good read for the whole story but this book I feel it's getting a little far fetched and

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We have all done terrible things.

Titan had first been settled over three centuries before by the humans sent out by Trass to avoid a threatened World destruction by an incoming asteroid. Whilst billions died when the asteroid struck, some survived and rebuilt a society under corporate control, eventually reaching into space and the now well established Titan population, bringing with them earth diseases from which the Titan born had no immunities. They became, essentially, second class citizens. Until a plot to restore their rights was formed by the self styled Children of Titan which cunningly broke the hold of the leading corporation in the area and catapulted Kale, a young minor street thief and crew member on a gas collector ship, into the position of Lord Trass, heir to the greatly revered original genius who had arranged for the earliest settlement. Hailed as Emperor, it is now his difficult job to try to convince the rest of sol that his planetary influence is not just another part of the sol dependency but totally independent.

The reader rejoins the story as Kale travels with a small, close team to Mars, to take part in a diplomatic meeting with the power heads of the corporations. It will not go smoothly. The story line is exciting, with both political and personal loyalties shifting. There is action and fighting, explosions and attempted murder. There is excellent world building, everything visual. There is even a wacky religion. But most of all there are the characters, and in particular Kale, himself, and the old Collector, Malcolm Graves, who just vibrate with real life as they make their separate routes through the story, their parts being told in alternate chapters. This is a truly magnificent book, well written, fully involving and, I hope, with a further book to follow.

Narrator R.C.Bray can always be relied upon to deliver a good performance and he does so here. Each character is distinctly and individually voiced, making the ongoing conversations easy to follow, and he puts full expression into his reading of the text, never over the top but with ongoing emotion. His voice is also easy on the ear, but still carries gravitas, perfect for the subject matter, and his pacing is perfect.

I enjoyed this series enormously when it was first published some time ago. Now, rewritten, it is even better and I recommend it to all who enjoy not just space sagas but anyone who loves a good thriller with well written characters. This is S.F. at it's best.

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Twists Galore!

This book is by far the best of the series.. the twists and turns keep you wanting more.
I'm not sure if I'm the only person divided as to whose side I would favour, Malcolm Graves or Kale... after this book I'm clearly leaning towards Malcolm. Not a Ringer Vs Earther side but a Malcolm Vs Kale side.. which side are you on??

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Better than the previous episode.

Well-narrated by RC Bray. I wasn’t a big fan of the chapters alternating between Malcolm and Kale, but the story itself was ok.

The main characters are very unsympathetic- Kale was much more unlikable than in the last book. More needs to be done to make us care about them as the series progresses.

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Great series

Living how this story is progressing. Well written and well narrated by RC as usual!

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Trilogy is now a series.

Every body knows that the Author Rhett C. Bruno is one of a kind, same with the narrator R.C. Bray and I agree.
What have disappointed me in the series Children Of Titan is that it was supposed to be a trilogy.
When I got the third audiobook in the series Titan’s Rise I couldn’t wait to see how the story ends.
Disappointedly it didn’t !
I’m guessing that when an author see a success in his work he does have the privilege to extend it and why not as long as it pays the bills which is understandable.
I’m also guessing that now their will be at least 3 more books to this series, I might be wrong but one thing for sure: It’s waiting time for who knows how long to the next book to come out???

Still a great series which I fully recommend.

Oded Ostfeld.

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