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The Tenth Awakens

Maraukian War Series, Book 1

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The Tenth Awakens

Auteur(s): Michael Chatfield
Narrateur(s): James Anderson Foster
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Mark Victor was a soldier left broken after the Harmony War ended.

What can a broken ex-trooper really do? What are they good for if they've gone through the EMF and been tossed out the other side? If you were to ask Mark...Maybe, doing what the enemy couldn't and following his brothers and sisters.

Mark wakes up to a nightmare, to an unfamiliar place with unknown faces.

A planet under attack, an enemy he's never seen before. He just wants to escape, but when he sees others in danger, he realizes that a trooper stands for something; they stand to protect their own. No matter the cost.

©2018 Michael Chatfield (P)2019 Tantor Hard science-fiction Militaire Science-fiction Fiction Guerre
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I tend to like a plot in my SciFi. This Michael Chatfield offering doesn't have one. Instead, indestructible already massively OP armored Space Marine 'Mark Victor' is dropped directly into a conflict between seemingly random human 'Legionnaires' on the planet "Roma" and an army of massive insectile biomechanical 'Maraukians'.
Combat encounter after Combat encounter ensues in a planet-spanning battle suitable for a WH40K campaign. The author does sketch out a "protect and/or fight against Earth" plotline for use in future but the most innovative aspect of this particular story is a fusion of the protagonist with his battle suit's AI as nanotechnology takes over his neural tissue.. converting him into a T-1000-like cyborg - an unstoppable military killing machine able to run 400 km/hr and effortlessly convert his limbs into weapons at will. He then aims to recruit other humans to evolve themselves into no-longer-human murderbots like himself.. creating a new unimaginably powerful military force (The Tenth Legion: "The Phantom Lords").
The idea is clever - and Chatfield's descriptions & combat choreography are mind's-eye vivid - but they couldn't make up for deficiencies in storytelling. I was entertained but probably lost a few points of IQ while listening to this testosterone-soaked book clearly aimed at videogame-obsessed geeks.

Solidly "average" reading from James Anderson Foster doubtless contributed to my "Meh" assessment of the book, too. To be sure, his diction, timbre, cadence, and tone are creditable.. and his voice-acting is actually pretty impressive. It's just strikingly obvious that Tantor Audio Inc. could have gotten similar results with any professional narrator in their stable.

In toto, I give 'The Tenth Awakens' 5.5 stars out of 10. It was a fun bit of unchallenging Brain Candy for free, but not worth a Credit when they ask for one. Someone needs to tell Chatfield you simply can't sustain a SciFi series on Cool-Factor alone. I am not confident enough in the author to chance going further in the 'Maraukian War Series'.

Action-Heavy Straight-up Adrenaline Infusion

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