really good

Amazing i am hooked. Amazing world and story. This is definitely for anyone who loves that deep scifi stuff.

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Nice Performance Made Story Alive

Story is interesting and the performance is really good. It made the story alive. I wouldn't be able to imerse if I was reading, as I imersed hearing.

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good start need some work

it's the first book so I'm willing to get it some room to grow and improve but it's enjoyable.

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Strarship Troopers The Movie in Book form

I enjoyed the Starship troopers movie. I have never read the book but understand they are much different from each other. I make this distinction because this book reminds me of the movie in all the good ways. It has the space action with the underlying tensions of a political and military society at it's core. I won't say much about the books content as i don't want to give anything away. But if you liked the Starship troopers movie, you will like this series.

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Excellent series, rings true to military life

Huge fan of this entire series, I was in the military for 8 years and it reminds me a lot of certain aspects of my service. It's pretty good science fiction, set in the near future (well nearish) in a world that looks similar to our own... but has greater extremes of wealth disparity. The main character is relatable and has good character development. There's solid action scenes in this book too and the enemies they face are very unique (no spoilers!). I would highly recommend listening to this book!

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Awesome

Best future space war story, just finished the first book and found out it’s series and lost my sh!t!

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Private blank slate

One of the many criticisms of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers was the fact Juan Rico never really had an opinion of his own. Our protagonist here seems to have a leg up on that front, but not by much.

You'll spend a long time wanting to know just how bad the 'Commonwealth' is and the bad faith it must generate with it's citizens. Its welfare mega cities filled with people that are more or less abandoned than nurtured, still persecuting a war on drugs and violation of the rights of those born outside of generational wealth and opportunity. And when things get heated and the 'Public Residence Clusters' break out into civil disobedience, they send in the Territorial Army like it's Blackhawk down and seem shocked it ends with anything less than thousands dead and a surprising 'clean' cover up that seems impossible in our age of everyone having a camera in their pocket, let alone the future.

But you know who isn't interested in those details and can gleefully keep reminding us he's better in the military than at home? Our protagonist. But that's alright, the book provides an 'other' for us to distract ourselves from the horrific realities of humanity's treatment of itself.

Voice actor does a good job, but even they can't make this sound less questionable.

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illogical

If you are in the military or have any experience with violence, you'll find this book very pseudo-intellectual. The main character gets in trouble for using an anti-armor weapon against a bunkered machine gun. The author didn't know that weapons like that are literally made for those situations.

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