Christopher W. Lehman

Zero likable characters

Revisado: 05-02-23

Honestly everyone in this book are bad people, even the "hero" who is a condescending jerk to everyone pretty much all the way through. I just wanted them all to die at the end.

Narrator did a great job.

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1st, 2nd and 4th series were excellent

Revisado: 06-29-22

If you are here wondering if the politics from the last series continued, they happily do not. This series is one big long running space battle.

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Takes a hard right

Revisado: 06-23-22

I bought all the series after listening to the first, but this one made me regret that. I tried to listen in-character as Husher, as he is a military man and therefore more likely to hold right wing views. However the entire story followed that arc and not just his internal thinking, so that went right out the window.



Mild Spoilers:
When they planned to evacuate and therefore seized all private ships to aid in that evacuation, he rants about how unfair that is for a long time.

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Fantastic, but wish I knew it wasn't a standalone

Revisado: 01-21-22

The book ends on a pretty solid cliffhanger, and I generally don't listen to books in a series until the series is completed. It says at the end of the book that the story will be concluded in the second chapter, so if you are like me and don't like leaving and then trying to pick up who knows when, you might hold off. Nothing is really resolved in this book.

That being said, it's fantastic. Great characters with actual development, sci-fi battles without being a space opera, and a pleasing and engaging reader. I was already wishing there WOULD be a second book before I was halfway done, so I guess I will be getting my wish.

I just hope I can remember to come back when that day comes.

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Goes nowhere slowly

Revisado: 11-04-19

Maybe this works better in book form, where you can easily skip long sections of boring futurology, the story advances maybe 30 minutes for every 3 hours. It may have one of those fantastic endings that totally makes it worth it, but if so I couldn't get there.

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Avoid this series, the books decline in quality

Revisado: 10-02-19

This first book is pretty good, and I had high hopes for the series. The young protagonist is learning in this book, and growing up in bad circumstances, so yeah, life is hard. That's how a lot of great books start off, but in those good series the protagonist learns, gets stronger or smarter, but generally starts shaping the world around them to be a better place.

Not here, I made it halfway through the third book when I realized I had started to hate him. He never gets better, he keeps doing dumb things and I got to the point where I just didn't care what happened anymore. Everyone in his life is terrible to him, everything that happens to him is terrible, and I finally just decided the series was terrible too. I asked for a refund on the third book and I generally finish any series I start. The worst part of it is that the first half of the second book makes you think he had found his rhythm and we were about to get into the meat of things, but no. I know a lot of people here will argue it's realistic, but if I wanted unfair realism with terrible people I would just watch the news.

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Fitz never gets any better

Revisado: 10-02-19

Everyone is terrible to him, he constantly makes terrible decisions, and I just plain gave up on him too. I am a person who normally finishes any book I start, especially in a trilogy like this, but I asked for a refund. Most good fantasy has a character arc where they learn, become stronger, have setbacks, but finally overcome their weakness and prevail. I realized I was rooting for someone to kill Fitz so I wouldn't have to hear him complain and still suck so hard at everything.

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Hard to keep track

Revisado: 06-26-19

I thought it was an interesting story, but it changes time and characters so abruptly that I was constantly having to go back and relisten to parts. Definitely a book you have to pay close attention when listening, not one you can multitask.

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Series jump, but it connects amazingly, eventually

Revisado: 12-27-18

The first part of this is a memory that appends the original story for connection's sake, but you can see the "surprise" a mile away, yet it's still satisfying. The second part relates to a new part and includes its own (incredible!) great space battle.The author borrows a ton from already-tread ground, but it's all the best parts of sci-fi that you have previously loved. If you at all enjoyed the last part, definitely buy this one too, it's better than the first two. I bought the next part myself in great expectation.

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Star Wars/Firefly Cheesiness, Good Popcorn Book

Revisado: 12-19-18

Don't go looking for a ton of depth here, but it passes the time fairly enjoyably. It's two books in one, with a somewhat difficult to understand transition between the two. The first is definitely the more serious, military-style fiction about a last stand. The second one gets pretty campy with some seriously stolen ideas from all of your favorite sci-fi shows. I really got a Firefly vibe from the second book. The ending is a serious cliffhanger, so it's a bit of "in for a penny, in for a pound", (as I buy the next audiobook in the series) but overall it was worth the credit.

R.C. Bray could read the dictionary in an enthralling manner, the performance is top-notch.

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