Alex Fish

Decent Story, Bad Narrator

Revisado: 03-02-23

i quite liked the premise of the book, but the Narrator is.. he has a very odd cadence and his voice is somewhat irritating. some of his voices are ok but most of it is pretty bad. also, thr main character freezes up in literally every scene. its understsndible thebfirst couple times but she KEEPS DOING IT and it is highly irratating. They do it in krder to show the fighting from her perspective but it is just frustrating to listen to. overall its a decent book, probably better to read it than listen to.

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A bit disapointing to be honest, but not BAD

Revisado: 09-18-22

I have been reading frontlines for years, this story started out so freaking awesome, it had me hooked from the get go. And I would say the vast majority of the series has been nothing short of fantastic... however. The last 3 books are.. well. the spark is gone, and it feels even more pungent in this final book. It never answers any questions, there are a few battle sequences that are very meh. There is almost no tension. Then it just kind of ends. I mean there was so much potential here but I think the author just wanted to get this series over with and move on. I hope he puts more effort into his Pallidium Wars series as I am very much enjoying that so far. all in all its not terrible, i would say that if you have gotten this far you might as well finish the ride. I wasnt a huge fan of the narrator though.

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Awesome

Revisado: 08-27-22

genuinely cannot understand all the 1 and 2 star rating for this. yeah, its pretty much DOOM but why is that a bad thing? The characters are all vert good, the monsters are unique. the action is good, the writing is exclent. its tense, and you never know whos gonna die next. all on all its excellent. more of an action, space horrer type thing, but i thoroughly enjoyed every second of it. and i mean, it was free.

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Good Overall, but not as good as the last 2

Revisado: 05-17-22

This is a solid book, but it has a few glaring issues. First, the narration is.. well its not horrible but it also is not good. Then there is the simple stupidity of the American reaponse to everything. Your telling me that with enemy troops on american soil, we havent even sent in some Special Forces to observe? That would have happened immediatly. Canada isnt going to deny US operations in their land in an active conflict with Russia, so it would be easy to get sone guys in from accross tbe border to A) rescue those civillians, and B) observe the enemy operations. the fact that this never happens and they keep relying on some kid is just dumb.

Next there is the secret base thing, it was a cool idea but it gets ruined by unbelievability. i get it, you want these 2 ladies to be superheroes. cool, but it takes me out of the story when they are able to do things on their own that would take at least a handful of people. Why not have some volunteers stay behind with them? At least then it becomes more believable, then you can also have an epic gun fight with some Spetznaz at the end that makes a little more sense. Why is a Russian General going into a hostile enemy base with Spetznaz troops to begin with? thats stupid. Why is a US supercarrier completely disabled by a cyber attack? stupid. why is the Russian spetznaz guy on the ground determined to assault an enemy position before he has reinforcements that he could totally call in? stupid.

Also, there is some discontinuity with this book and the last 2, which were far more realistic and overall just better.

actually, i initially had this at 4 stars but im taking it down to 3 the more i think about it. im still going to read the next one, but i have to get it on Kindle instead of audible because only 2 of the 5 book series are actually narrated. wtf is up with that?

i would say overall its an ok story, but its filled with holes that your going to have to work pretty hard to overlook.

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Awesome

Revisado: 04-29-22

That WW3 itch can be hard to scratch, Red Storm it is not, however, the characters are all good, the story and setting are solid and realistic, the tech is futuristic but not too crazy, and the battles are well written. you get just enough politics and white house situation room to know whats going on, but not too much as to be boring. I thoroughly enjoyed this one and am looking forward to the rest of the series.

one question, why are only 2 out of the 5 books in this series on audible, and they arent even in order?? its book 1 and book 3, 2, 4 and 5 arent on audible, this should be fixed immediatly.

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Great, but somethings missing

Revisado: 02-13-22

I very much enjoyed listening to this story, the buildup was very believable and I liked the characters and the use of technology. it was all very well done. The only place in which these books struggle are the battles themselves. The Naval battles are fine in my opinion, they are over in a few pages but i dont really have a problem with it. But the land battles are, to be honest, poorly done and unsatisfying, with the ending left up to a technological miracle instead of letting the long awaited american forces actually fight it out with the Chinese. It was very unsatisfying. Also, the author never really depicts the Tiawanise military other than to say, things like, "they wont last much longer." Overall, despite its shortcomings, it is still a very good story and i highly recomend it.

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Decent plot but poor execution

Revisado: 01-26-22

I honestly just couldn't get into it. I gave it good 3 hours but many of the plot points are just too farfetched for me. I also did not like the narrator. Save your money, there are better books out there. Go check out Command and Control, or Tipping Point. Both are far superior to this.

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Feels authentic

Revisado: 12-10-21

great story, well paced and believable. scratches the itch, i felt that the narrator could have done better but it wasnt a bad performance. highly reccomend

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