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Black Ops
- Expeditionary Force, Book 4
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
- Série: Expeditionary Force, Livre 4
- Durée: 16 h et 44 min
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- Catégories: Science fiction et fantaisie, Science-fiction
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once again a great listen
- Écrit par Kevin le 2018-02-14
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Paradise
- Expeditionary Force, Book 3
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More repetitive than anything I’ve ever read or listened to
- Écrit par Andrew le 2019-04-15
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Mavericks
- Expeditionary Force, Book 6
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet "Paradise" get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry Band of Pirates may have to come to the rescue. Unless they get killed first....
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Good, but heavy lack of the Merry Band of Pirates
- Écrit par Scott le 2018-10-22
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Renegades
- Expeditionary Force, Book 7
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The battle-scarred star carrier Flying Dutchman is finally on her way back to Earth, after an exceptionally successful series of missions that have once again saved the world. The ship needs a serious refit, and her exhausted crew just wants a break from constant clandestine warfare against a vicious and superior enemy. Wishes come true, right? Not for the Merry Band of Pirates.
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Love the series but...
- Écrit par ChrisCW le 2019-06-19
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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SpecOps
- Expeditionary Force, Book 2
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Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise and he's going to keep it; taking the captured alien starship Flying Dutchman back out. He doesn't agree when the UN decides to send almost 70 elite Special Operations troops, hotshot pilots, and scientists with him; the mission is a fool's errand he doesn't expect to ever return from. At least, this time, the Earth is safe, right? Not so much.
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Repetitive and dull
- Écrit par Andrew le 2019-03-25
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Trouble on Paradise
- Expeditionary Force, Book 3.5
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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Terrific
- Écrit par Dustin le 2019-01-05
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Zero Hour
- Expeditionary Force, Book 5
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once again a great listen
- Écrit par Kevin le 2018-02-14
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Paradise
- Expeditionary Force, Book 3
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Mavericks
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Good, but heavy lack of the Merry Band of Pirates
- Écrit par Scott le 2018-10-22
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Renegades
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Love the series but...
- Écrit par ChrisCW le 2019-06-19
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SpecOps
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Repetitive and dull
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NOT ALL CANADIANS TALK LIKE THAT!!
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-11-28
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Valkyrie
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- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's home world. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans.
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Canadians do not say or use "EH like that.
- Écrit par liam le 2020-02-10
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Columbus Day
- Expeditionary Force, Book 1
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We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.
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Easily one of the better books I've read..
- Écrit par jesse cornelious le 2018-10-31
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Critical Mass
- Expeditionary Force, Book 10
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The Merry Band of Pirates are in desperate trouble after the end of their last mission, and the real danger to humanity is just getting started. Hostile aliens have discovered there is something odd going on with wormholes in the galaxy, and their investigations could lead to finding a shortcut to Earth....
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[SPOILERS AHEAD] Craig, please take a break.....
- Écrit par Dylan H. le 2020-08-29
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Homefront: An Expeditionary Force Audio Drama Special
- Expeditionary Force, Book 7.5
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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After the latest mission of the starship Flying Dutchman, Earth is safe not just for a year, but for hundreds of years. The ship’s weary crew wonders what they will do with their lives in peacetime, but the enemy has other plans, and there is danger on the Homefront. Starring Zachary Quinto, R.C. Bray, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, and everyone's favorite AI, Skippy the Magnificent, alongside a full cast. Includes plenty of pew-pew-pew, original sound composition, and maybe some singing by R.C. Bray.
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Solid Shmaybe!
- Écrit par ChrisCW le 2019-06-19
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Brushfire
- Expeditionary Force, Book 11
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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Peacetime can be a rough adjustment for the battle-hardened Merry Band of Pirates.
Especially when aliens don’t get the memo that the shooting is over.
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fantastic as usual with a hiccup
- Écrit par Kevan Walter le 2020-12-19
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Breakaway
- Expeditionary Force, Book 12
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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The Merry Band of Pirates offered the bad guys a ceasefire. We won’t mess with them, if they don’t mess with us. Easy, right? No. The aliens chose to do things the hard way. So, the Pirates are racing around the galaxy to clean up the threat to Earth. The infant UN Navy has their own mission with the Alien Legion: Get humanity some allies in the fight. And the Ethics & Compliance Office might have to do something...ethical. Unless they can find a way around it.
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as always amazing except for that preview.
- Écrit par liam le 2021-06-03
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Deathtrap
- Expeditionary Force Mavericks, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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The human soldiers stranded on the planet Paradise have been recruited into an alien legion to do the dirty jobs that the high-tech species won't do. Their first mission is to kick the enemy off a backwater planet no one cares about. It's a simple assignment, except everyone has a hidden agenda, and the planet could become a deathtrap.
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Simply great.
- Écrit par Bill le 2019-05-12
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Fallout
- Expeditionary Force, Book 13
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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The problem with lying about having a super weapon is that the bad guys might believe they have nothing to lose by doing something stupid that both sides will regret. Or, they might just call your bluff. Either way, the Merry Band of Pirates need a plan to deal with the Fallout.
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Obscure pop/sci-fi culture references kill me
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-12-12
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Freefall
- Expeditionary Force Mavericks, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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The Alien Legion has a new mission, and this time, they are working for the enemy. Also against the enemy. Like every operation that Emily Perkins plans, it’s complicated. But plans require good intel, and when the plan falls apart, the Mavericks are in freefall....
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Wish I could give 9 stars!
- Écrit par Christopher le 2021-04-10
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Match Game
- Expeditionary Force, Book 14
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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For years, the ancient alien AI known as Skippy (the Magnificent, don’t forget that part) has been able to do one impossible thing after another. What is his secret? It’s simple: 100 percent grade-a extreme awesomeness. And also because he had never been faced with an opponent of equal power. Until now. This time, he might need a little help from a band of filthy monkeys.
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Heaven's River
- Bobiverse, Book 4
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender’s fate - whatever the cost. But nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. Bob’s descendants are out to the 24th generation now, and replicative drift has produced individuals who can barely be considered Bobs anymore.
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I hope this story never ends
- Écrit par André le 2020-09-25
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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The elite crew of the pirate ship UNS Flying Dutchman had a simple mission: determining whether the Thuranin are sending another starship to Earth. Along the way, they became sidetracked by securing a future for the UNEF troops on the planet Paradise. When asked whether Earth was now safe, their ancient alien AI responded "Not so much"...now they have to deal with the consequences.
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- Kaisersoser
- 2017-11-17
Hail the adventures of Skippy the Magnificent!!!
Let me start by saying, book 4 is the very best of the lot. I am not going to give any spoilers, but let me just say,...if you thought you were on the edge of your seat,...you better wrap that monkey tail around a solid branch, cause you are about to go on a ride for the ages....
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017-11-19
Read/listen to the entire series
I love this series so much it's sad to finish each book and wait for the next. The narration is amazing. The writing is so entertaining.
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- Lee Darke
- 2017-12-20
More fun than a Barrell of Monkeys
RC Bray does a great job of bringing the story and characters to life.
The entire audible series is really entertaining with good story, good characters and good pacing.
Craig Alanson is one of my new favourite authors.
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- Cody Dyck
- 2018-06-14
Unfinished.
This feels like it was copied and pasted from previous novels in the series. Skippy was so fun in the early books but now his jokes just repeat again and again without any originality. There was so much potential for universe building that in the end just dies in mundane quests. The refueling scene was what really just killed it for me.
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- Junk Bond
- 2020-01-25
Outstanding Series
Great character development, punctuated with humour, complex and suspenseful action sequences. A few bugs in audio quality towards end of this particular book, but nothing terrible.
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- SoulFood Wanderer
- 2022-05-22
You have to animate this!!!!! 😃👍🏼😂
Sitting here enjoying the amazing performance by RC Bray. It hit me.” This is the perfect soundtrack for a whole animation series. It would be a blast! “.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-04-25
fast-moving and fascinating.
I recommend this series for anyone who likes sci-fi. I enjoyed all the characters and it was interesting to see how the various characters contributed to the overall story. every minute was enjoyable.
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- Mountain Man
- 2022-04-14
Entertaining and action packed
Once again the Merry band of pirates is on a mission. Craig has the witty dialogue with the AI skippy and our narrator brings the story to life. The was a good mix of challenges, adventures, mishaps and creative solutions.
Great work for both the story and presentation. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
PS…80’s references and show tunes are spot on!
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- Nathan Geoffroy
- 2022-02-09
Another great entry to the ExFor series.
If you've made it this far into the story you know what its about. Rest assured this book has tons of awesome Skippy moments and adventures for the pirates. You gotta listen to it if you like the story this far, so whattaya waitin' for??
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- Alain Beland
- 2022-01-29
Fantastic story and descriptions
Loved it. Started slow but finished strong. Loved it! Can’t wait to start the next one.
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- Steve & Mary
- 2018-01-02
Slightly better than books two and three.....
If not for the fan-fu**ing-tastic narration of Mr. R.C. Bray, I would have stopped after book two. The stories are essentially the same narrative time and time again. Problem = Solution = Secondary Problem = Solution....and it's almost always a Bishoped plan with a Skippy (I hate my life) technical solution. How do we get onto that Starship/Asteroid/Planet or how do we intercept/transmit messages to gain or give information that will help our mission. Skippy is one giant Deus Ex Machina, and it's entertaining for a while, but when the narrative begins to argue with itself over what Skippy can and can't do....well, it's a bit much.
More importantly, the lacking character development is painful. This is book 4, and by now I would expect that some of our team would have grown, especially in light of all that they have witnessed. These characters are still paper thin with very little depth. I know almost nothing about our Protagonist Joe Bishop is basically Joe SixPack. An everyman that has been placed in the right place at the right time. In the first book, we watched him go from grunt to Sargent and then to Colonel...it was a feel good moment to see this everyman put in charge of an entire brigade, then a starship. When Joe and the Merry Band of Pirates returned home after their second journey, I expected another promotion. Instead we watched as he was dressed down by superiors for making decisions that were (at the time) very reasonable and even heroic. But for the sake of the story, I accepted this bizarre twist. And now we have Chotek (sp?) who is essentially an amalgam of every undesirable government agent from Earth. Now that he's seen the universe unfold before his eyes, has his disposition changed? Has he become a more tolerable leader? Has he come to understand that Joe is a hero and not a hapless idiot? No, no and no. There is no character growth here at all. These people have seen some sh*t and they need to behave in ways that make sense. The most ironic thing in this entire series is that Skippy has the most character growth of them all....an AI that supposedly lacks depth or empathy has the most complicated character arc of them all.
And for the love of all things Skippy, PLEASE resolve some of these loose ends. With every chapter we seem to get more hints at the origins of Skippy, but we learn almost nothing. It's book 4, we should have made some progress towards that goal. I cannot sit through another set of books waiting for progress.
I have so many more issues with these books, but I also love them so much, it hurts to be so critical. But if the author happens to be considering a change in narration, DON'T DO IT. R.C. Bray is your Tom Brady. Don't forget that.
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- Tyson S Sukeforth
- 2017-10-04
Solid continuation that fizzles at the end
What I love about Craig's writing style that really shines in this book is diving into the randomness of an unpredictable universe. Exploring the minutia of various events along the story that are anywhere between game changing to inconsequential. And they can be either unfortunate or fortuitous or both. It gives the story more chance to tell a larger picture and creates a living world that, especially for a sci-fi series, feels very grounded in reality. Sometimes the story is a grind as they duck and weave through updating situations and unintended consequences because that's how combat and problem solving actually is.
Unfortunately he sticks to the style a little too well, as the book sputters at the end without a very satisfying conclusion before setting up the next book. By the end the characters are exhausted and strung out and so are we. And I appreciate that this is very likely representative of what most of real life combat is like. But the book just ends there, without excitement or satisfaction. Postponing the payoff to the next book. And since we already had to wait a little longer for this book to fit in "Trouble in Paradise", it's going to make the wait for the next story EXCRUCIATING. And not in a great way.
It hurts to say because I overall I really love the book and the series, and it's a small knock on what's otherwise a great read, unfortunately that little bit is what's going to stick with me while we wait the months for the next installment.
My suggestion, if you haven't jumped on this book as soon as it came out like I did, (and, admittedly, would likely still do even if I read my advice from the future because I am a sucker for this series,) hold off on this until it's closer to the next release, so you can jump right into the next for the payoff that we should have at least gotten a piece of in this one.
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- Forest
- 2019-06-19
Worst book so far
Rehash of themes and stories
There always seems to be the same kind of problem/solution/conflict resolution
Poor character development and lots of needless banter, explanations, and useless character introductions.
Overall it feels like you’re watching an infomercial that says “wait there’s more” and the more is just all very anticlimactic.
Voice acting is inconsistent, and the dialogue is hard to differentiate from narration at times.
The ending is disappointing due leaves you with, yet another very anticlimactic cliffhanger, which if you have basic critical thinking skills, you must know it will be resolved within the first chapter of the next book, or the mission wouldn’t be possible.
And yet, I’ll give the next book a chance to redeem this one and hope for more.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-12-16
Best book in the series so far
This is the best book in the series so far. Some of the criticisms that I have read in other reviews, such as the trope of “Joe has a stupid idea that Skippy didn’t think of”, are different in this book. The author changes up the formula pretty well and keeps it interesting. The end of the book, the last third or so, is some of the best action I’ve ever read in a military sci-fi novel. I would definitely recommend that you check this book out especially if you’ve gone this far with the series.
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- Angela
- 2018-11-16
Starting to get old
Perhaps listening to this entire series without a break is not the way to go. This is no Lost Fleet or Pillars of Reality where the 6 books flew by. There is really no hook that says "wow I cant wait for the next book, I wonder what will happen" because the same thing is happening in every book. Now if I was listening to these several months apart maybe it would not seem so tired and repetitive, so perhaps these books are better for long term, short session, listens.
This story picks up where the last one left off and there is more trying to stop ships from going to earth. The aliens are amazingly persistent in wanting to send ships on a long long journey to contact people who are out of contact it seems. So persistent that they would do stuff that seems out of character, but then 4 books in and we really don't know that much about their character. This book spends its entire run time trying to resolve that one issue, there is no helping Skippy meet his goals, just doing more and more crazy stuff to stop the ship. Some of stuff that happens is mildly interesting as we do see more into some alien societies (there is a genuinely sad scene) but otherwise there is not much you haven't heard before. Well, except one of Skippys subminds gets a name and personality but the character is poorly voiced and it does not really do anything, the plot thread doesn't really go anywhere. Skippy seems meaner somehow and Joe maybe dimmer. I doubt I will remember much detail of what happened in a day or so, and I don't really think there are any details that are important anyway. The ending was OK though, there was some good tension in the last mission and where we left off leaves hope that maybe they will do something else in the next book besides trying to stop an alien ship from going to earth.
Don't get me wrong, I am not someone who needs some grand over arching story, I really enjoy episodic shows that explore just for exploration sake, or books that just have fun characters who I want to "hang around" with, but we are now doing the same thing in every book and the witty banter is starting to not be so witty. It is interesting to learn more about the alien races, but we don't learn much and what we do learn only makes me wonder why humans can't figure out their tech since none of them seem all that intelligent. Certainly humans should be smarter than lizards that are only interested in war and enslave half their population. Perhaps I should have read the 5 hour 3.5 book, it would have been a break from the same, same, and there is a sidequest in this book that is likely directly related to that book, as it references a ship that was mentioned in book 3, but $20 for 5 hours doesn't seem worth it.
Looking ahead I guess the series is not yet finished as I had assumed. It looks like book 6 is an expansion on that 3.5 story so this next book is the last in the main storyline that is currently out. Hopefully we are done stopping people from going to earth and can do something else interesting like exploring around to keep the promise to Skippy.
Bottom line, the book was fine. It had humor and action and was probably as good as 3 but could have been better if it was not still running the same basic mission as book 3. It is a big galaxy and you have an Elder AI that wants to learn about itself, how can this story be bogged down in the same spot?(/rant). Anyway if you are reading the series you really can't skip this book, because I THINK it setup something for the next book. Was it worth the credit? I would have preferred to have gotten this on a 2 for 1 sale with book 3.
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- manny_calavera
- 2017-10-28
Still fun but losing a bit of luster
Still fun, with great narrator, but the story is losing some steam and the banter is getting stale.
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- Anonymous User
- 2017-10-16
Not as good as the first three
While still enjoyable, this 4th installment seemed long and overly complicated. In order to understand what was going on the explanations were long and convoluted. The banter between Skippy and Joe was not nearly as funny as before. I did gafaw out loud, but only a few times.
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- LBrown
- 2019-06-03
Like a filler episode
I could not get into this like the others and may be done with the series. It felt like filler. Nothing worth caring about. Just a time waster until they write something that matters to the story.
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- Abraham Tingey
- 2019-02-07
Starting to become repetitious
More fo the same, always pointing out they are saving the world, some unsolvable problem that gets solved. I am hoping now that earth is finally secure from any immediate threats the author will start developing the story line relating to the Elders and the sites the merry band of pirates discovered in their adventures.
Rc Bray does a fantastic job once again. He brings everyone to life. The story becomes very engaging.
The banter between Skippy and Colonel Joe is becoming a bit stale, it needs some fresh material, the whole skippy going on about how he hates his life when Joe solves a problem is getting old.
Heres to hoping the next book is not as repetitive as this one became.
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- Anonymous
- 2019-06-03
Skippy rocks but Monkey's save the Day
I don't like the ending and some repetitive. what's the point of Count Chocola? still going to listen to book five. Hey, Sarge Marge needs a heroine moment.
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