Mr P J Hill

A good backgrounder on the series

Reviewed: 2019-03-03

You should read this book after, at least, reading book one. It's a short story that broadens the background of the main characters of the series. Well worth reading, also explores a kind post-apocalyptic Britain in the near future. Well worth the expense :-)

A super book even if you're not a history geek

Reviewed: 2019-03-03

A great story idea. Lots of adventure and very well written. I really enjoyed this book and have since started to listen to others in the series. The narrator is pretty good and subtle with the many British accents. Love the copious cups of tea and hard drinking, very brit.

You don't need to be a history geek to enjoy this book or the rest of the series. The dives into historical events are great stories and the thread of the protagonists life is interesting.

Another fun episode in the series

Reviewed: 2019-02-06

Onto book 10 and the series does not disappoint. I feel like the whole series is maturing nicely, McGill is a great protagonist, the characters around him are maturing in their development and a sufficient amount of new characters are being introduced. The new twist on Claver is very unexpected and you can see that developing this story line opens the door for many new possibilities in further books.

This is a series that I just snap up the books as soon as I see them and I've enjoyed them all. Keep em coming B.V.

Another exciting episode in the series.

Reviewed: 2018-08-30

I've enjoyed all the titles in this series so far. I'm really looking forward to #4 too. Great characters, believable dialogue, exciting, plausible- in a sci-fi sense.

Unlike many book series, this book has a full story, in fact the author could have ended the series with this book. I was very pleased to see #4 was in the works after I finished it. It's a great concept, there is some inevitable character attrition, (it's an apocalypse) the author introduces new characters very well. There's no question, I'll snap up the next episode in this saga as soon as it's available.

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Very enjoyable but books are short for the price.

Reviewed: 2018-07-06

I've listened to 1-3 Omnibus and 4. I've enjoyed them immensely, I'm interested in what will happen to the characters. I like that plots are unfolding in the UK and North America. I have only one gripe, each book isn't a whole book, there are lots of books in the series but listening to all of them is going cost more than $300CAD it's really adding up.

I've liked the books so far but as a series habit goes it's getting as expensive as crack cocaine. Sure I can bust out a credit for each book but my listening habit is quite a bit more than 9 hours a month. The story is good and captivating though.

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Enjoyable and fun Sci-Fi

Reviewed: 2018-04-05

It's not really serious, it's not ridiculous either. It's entertaining, fun, light and exciting. I burned through this book fast and bough the next in the series as soon I finished it. I'm currently enjoying SPECOPS just as much.

There a few military jargon bits that are not necessary near the beginning but it's not bad. Also RC Bray does a great job with the accents especially Bishop.

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As good as I expected it to be - Excellent

Reviewed: 2018-04-05

This was a great purchase for me. There was advice in there that I've taken to heart and applied as I was listening to it. I will listen again to ensure that I maintain my character improvement schedule. This is like good advice from a friend who genuinely cares.

Even before the pathetic SJW's got him in Ze's (ha ha) sights JBP has lived a real life, had some real knocks and has not been as isolated as others in his field may be. This guy is inspirational, and a real person, not perfect, but trying hard to figure stuff out, real.

I'm not religious, more like the opposite of religious, so be warned, the book has a LOT of references to the bible. JBP is not so dumb as to think that book is literally the word of god, but he does believe in god and christianity. That turned me off, I tried as hard as I could to listen to his bible references as metaphor, to some extent I managed that but there was many times I almost stopped listening. It was hard.

I don't knock anything off on the review because of his religious beliefs, because this book is about his beliefs, it's not an error. For those who are not religious it can be a tough pill to swallow. Given that, to me, Christopher Hitchens was one of the greatest people in human history and worked tirelessly to turn back the misery that religion has cursed the modern human with, I am conflicted.

I respect both men, in their own strengths, nobody is right about everything, not even Einstein. I got a lot out of the book, I think about the rules every day and I try, in my own way, to apply them. For that, this book is worth 100 times what I paid for it, maybe more.



I'm a grown up man, I have lot more to keep tidy than my bedroom. Hearing straight talk from JBP will do you no harm. Follow that straight talk and you can only improve.
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This the new "Iron John".

1 of 2 people found this review helpful

Great stories

Reviewed: 2018-03-01

Neil Gaiman has done a great job with his favourite Norse mythologies. You really can see roots of 'American Gods' in this collection. These old stories are quite a hoot. I can just imagine sitting round a fire in Scandinavia, being told these stories by a village elder and being in awe of the gods and their adventures.

I kept the book on my phone for listening to again.

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A slow start but improves later

Reviewed: 2018-03-01

I devoured the "red rising" trilogy and thought, well, that's that when it finished. So when I saw this book I picked it up with great excitement. Like many other readers I was initially disappointed, it did not have the pace of previous books with one exciting challenge after another. The story was very retrospective, there was also a lot of "boring" politics and at times I really ground through it.

The last quarter or third of the book picks up to the tempo of the previous trilogy. I started being excited about my next listening session and got into it. The different narrators was a good idea but I did find the perceived changes in volume from different voices a bit jarring.

In conclusion I see this book as good ground work for a new trilogy, I will definitely buy more in this series but my enthusiasm has been dulled a bit.

Eight books in and I'm still loving this series

Reviewed: 2018-03-01

B V Larson has done a great job with this series. It continues to be fun, exciting and fairly light hearted. These audio books are a fun listen. I'm certain I'll continue to snap up each book in this series with 2 trillion galaxies in the Universe there should be plenty of xxxx world books to come :-)