Jake Elwood has outdone himself, excellent book

I loved this book! as Military Sci-fi genre stands, this is one of the best books I've read (In the case of the Audiobook version, the performance is impecable)

The Author crafts a compelling story with intricate and interesting characters that give this book a voice of it's own. The dialogues are the best I've seen him write. I admit I've been very critical with this author in the past, but I take it all back as I finish this piece. I believe he has found his voice, or the setting his stories are best suited for.

In short, this book is so good, it has been worth to follow the series up until this volume, and I look forward to what the author will write in the future.

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Great series, ok book

The series is awesome so far, and for the most part this book was entertaining and definitely had its moments. My only real gripe about this novel is the idea that officers in the navy would refrain from making escape attempts. Every military service a cross the earth and for all of recorded history have had a standing order for all soldiers to attempt to escape whenever taking captive. Even when the service members have been threatened with the same barbarism portrayed in this novel. The consequences of the actions of Tom at the end of the book are certainly not consistent with history that said maybe in the future the space born military do not hold the same values that earth's historical militarys had.

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good store but the whispering

love the story but the whispering for the inner thoughts of the characters drives me nuts, hard to hear when not wearing headphones

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The story continues

Anyone who has been a prisoner can easily relate to this book. It was well written and the main character acts just like you would expect a young junior officer to act. A very likeable series of books; bring on the next installment.

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Too much world building

The story itself had interesting story arcs but ultimately lost a lot of its luster when many of the secondary crew members and associates from the first two novels were eliminated. Also, there was a lot of churning when hopping to different places and the time spent world building only to essentially be filler. I did enjoy the similarity between Tom and Alec Guinness' Colonel Nicholson role in Bridge Over River Kwai with respect to building taking pride in constructing things while imprisoned.

Book 4 seems destined to take Tom and a few of his friends in a completely different direction so I'll leave this series here.

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Pretty much pointless.

The only thing this book brings to the table is a vauge sence of character development. I mean bare minimum. The entirely luck based rescue was a joke. For it then to be followed by a real, planned rescue pretty much invalidated the whole this in my eyes. It pissed me off honestly.

I'd recommend skipping this one, nothing really to gain by listening to this.

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Good story but least favorite so far.

A good story by itself, but doesn't progress the main story much. Not many triumphs for our main characters to find rewarding. Also, hard to hear when the narrator whispers.

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It drags...but the story continues

I found myself ignoring large portions of this story. I felt this story could have been 2 hours long and still contained the depth and impact necessary for the series. The MC is still interesting, but this book made me tired of him....the whimpering, the self reflect....inserted to extend the length of the book, detracts from his character. The ending of the book doesn't seem to reflect on the events of the previous books...where it seemed like it should. The ending felt rushed.

In the general, this book felt out of touch with the first two in the series. Honestly, I think you could skip this book in the series easily....just assume they were rescued from the prison.

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Amazing reader!

Another great installment in the series. Not as much space fighting, more like a prison break.

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Realistic characters

The plot is interesting and well paced. The characters have depth and their reactions to their situations are realistic.

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