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A fairly average story that you've heard before...

Revisado: 06-11-23

Been here, done this...

1. Humans are aliens - old ancient aliens trope
2. Lizards want to eat humans - the Gorn eh?
3. Airforce / Top Guns save the day - Independence Day (the girl is the best pilot - yea, right)

This could be a cartoon as it's cartoonish.

4. It's Stargate level propaganda without the charm of Richard Dean Anderson or Amanda Tapping.
5. The bad guys have a DNA weapon but these Flash Gordon level clowns are really not that scary not Aliens level scary,
6. One day a guy is flying an F-22, the next a Spaceship with nanite training, no real effort or arc, "bam" now you're Buck Rodgers.

7. It's generally well written but man this IP stole from everywhere and is really one long recruitment poster for world government and the rotten United Nations in novel form.

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A term paper needed to graduate; Final Grade = B-

Revisado: 08-31-22

The United States Airforce figured "we need recruits to join and want to purse careers as 'combat controllers';" So, they hired this German guy living in New Hampshire or Vermont or somewhere in the New England area to write the story...but somewhere along the way the checks stopped coming, the author lost interest and CV-19 drove him mad.

So after a long delay the short final chapter has arrived and it's like a term paper a student has to turn in in order to graduate. It's a solid technical effort but it's nothing spectacular. It's competent but un-inspired. If he wasn't thinking about graduate school or a new job or whatever but was passionate, it could have been so much more.

The first third of the book started off extremely well. It was almost like it was part of the previous novel and probably was. The "mystery" of the Lankies was being revealed, a rogue Jovian world, interesting moons, a GREEN world exploration but then...BANG; hero hurt, and then the trope breakdown of mediocrity begins.

We get tons of pointless exposition, like "hey we discovered some 'stealth' paste. It would be a real shame if militaries began thinking wars were winnable again." WTF? Scientist exit stage left, A long multi-chapter space battle, then broken ship, then long tedious ground battle; then, time dilatation then, "the end." 6 weeks? More like 3 years. OH! Please. Space-Time, It's relative. What's the point? Who are the Lankies? What are the Lankies? Who are the monsters that ate them? Are they sentient? Are they Van Newman probes? Why not take the Alcubierre drive off the broken ship? Oh, I know they blew up the rear.

Where's wifey? Boring. I didn't read the story for "the marriage." It's was a nice addition like cinnamon on oatmeal but it's not "the meal." Ultimately this series was like an 8 course dinner with a 2 ounce steak as the main course.

This book is mostly pointless filler.

It's over but nothing is really explained as that would have taken creativity, passion and interest. So, what started off as a good promising story with a great science fiction mystery ended up as a dumb action drama, cue the credits and Rihanna-isk rap song. Toss-off Rubes.

P.S. Netflix will make it both woke & dumber (e.g. The Witcher) but as I walked away from that satanic globalist toxic service years ago, it doesn't matter much to me.

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God Awful

Revisado: 07-08-22

Misery. This story is misery. Nothing gets better, everything gets worse, if this is humanity, we're doomed. Everything awful, no hope, stupid decisions. I want to rule the islands so I kill 1/2 the people who fight for them. I'm a scummy guy but I get to walk around and cause major problem and the goodie-2-shoes a-holes that I bamboozle let me do it. Give a "loyal" captain nuclear cruise missiles and what does he do? nuke my super-carrier. I'm X and totally retarded but I never lose, in the next book, please buy it and find out how my x-ray exposed dog and me never die. immortal. this series has become total garbage. I'm out.

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Just when you think it's over, you realize it will

Revisado: 06-10-22

Just when you think it's over, you realize it will...never end. At some point that will be a bad thing. I think it's clear this cash cow will be milked until sales drop greatly. Then there will be a final book, to suck you in. Too much banter, useless banter which was cute 8 books ago but is painful now. Bishop uses big words, he's grown but Skippy kind of hasn't. Ho hum. It's not a bad story. I enjoyed it. Oceans 11 in space done well. The "ancients" are returning. OK, I'll bite but this dog is beginning to get a bit long in the tooth.

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Lost in the weeds...but it all came together in

Revisado: 09-30-20

As I was listening to book 4 in the bobiverse, I kept thinking why am i spending more than half my time with these platapyus-beaver people in the 18th century? I can't stand the "starfleet" group and the "skippies" irritate me to no end. In fact most of these splits in the bobiverse do. I don't care if it's monolithic, I like it monolithic; I like them working together. This adventure seems like needless juxtoposition inorder to have more juxtoposition....and yes things are more a mess in the end then they were at the beginning but and i'm glad i stuck around throughit all. As I ultimately have to admit, i was entertained...and in the end, that's all that matters.

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It's DREK..!

Revisado: 09-09-20

Books, movies, music, etc. (consumable escapist entertainment), is meant to be a release or break from this miserable existence. It supposed to take us away, to a better world. Even stories about the "zombie apocalypse" need (NEED) to be hopeful, uplifting, spiritually renewing. You're supposed to get lost in this "other" world, better world, sure there are monsters and dangers and loss and all those things but you get something you don't get in this world...hope.

You get a simpler existence, no taxes, no student loans, no WOKE politics, no CRAP. Evil gets defeated (which doesn't happen here), people discover their better selves and live lives of meaning...unlike here. This series does none of that. Everyone loses. Everyone dies. The struggle is pointless. The aliens are unstoppable. The Earth literally turns into an actual hell..and most all the people are stupid.

Awful. If I want that, I'll walk out my front door, turn on the evening news, drive on the Garden State Parkway or put up with %*$#@ at work, school, the government, whatever. But I don't want to either read about it, or waste an audio credit on such depressing toxic junk.

This story is a bad miserable trip. Unless you're a sadistic masochist, avoid.

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Chricky, was this F-ing Boring...

Revisado: 06-13-20

Rodiesians, Oceania, Greshins? WTF is this about? Some guy gets out of prison and we get to suffer through his painful loser life. His father is an abusive jerk, they all are. You know this same story could take place in New Zealand. It doesn't need to be in space. His sister runs the family business. He buys a steak, he rents a room, he smells salt air, he calls his sister...my god he shops for new clothes and gets a cell phone. He gets a fake ID and new a new cell phone, he sits in a chair. This is an f-ing abortion. It was mildly interesting when he was shot down taking a ride home in the freighter and survived in the escape pod, but then he's back to getting treated like a mope by bully cops who think Greshins are jerks for some stupid war they lost. Sucks to lose a war, my suggestion, don't. Some captain hunts a pirate who surrenders immediately (so...boring) and a butch soldier plays cop and planetary occupation thug...ugh, like the life story some guy in the Coast Guard and some dikey soldier (Idina? stupid name) occupying West Germany...and pissed at the former National Socialists. Ya, ya, they suck, we know. Ugh... how trope. Why do all soldiers need to be these tough as nail women? Most women can fight for sh*t in reality. Chapter 20 and it's like slugging through stale syrup on tasteless pancakes....I'll finish this awful meal and return it if I can.

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Awful

Revisado: 05-09-20

Like a bad, no awful B movie...one stupid situation after another. This book should just die. I can't believe I wasted my life listening to this. I hoped the ending would save it but it was Deus Ex solution after another followed by bad shocks occurring repeatedly.

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Simply Superb...

Revisado: 05-05-20

This is a stand alone novel which when read with the other two (2) is significantly greater than the sum of the parts. Of all the "Galaxy's Edge" novels and series, this one was/is the best. All three novels are simply superb.

In fact with over 100 Audible titles in my personal library from JN Chaney, to Nicholas Sansbury Smith to B. V. Larson to Marko Kloos to Craig Alanson to many, many others...this series "Galaxy's Edge: Savage Wars By: Jason Anspach, Nick Cole" stands, no strike that,...towers above them all, perhaps by an order of magnitude.

I don't know what else to say.

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Full disclosure...

Revisado: 04-08-20

Full disclosure I am in no way connected to Jason Anspach, Nick Cole. When I read and reviewed "Savage Wars: Galaxy's Edge: Savage Wars, Book 1" I thought the book was outstanding. 5 stars. If I could give a book 6, this would be it.

Again following the formula of two halves making one whole, Gods and Legionnaires are two separate stories with even less connection than in "Savage Wars." However, each story is so good it doesn't matter. Seeing the world from the perspective of the post-human / Eternal was brilliant and compelling. From 1980's USA to Billy, was it Idol, I'm sure it was or the evolution of the Pantheon to brain's in jars it was believable and horrifying. At one point the Rock God says something like, "this is a horror movie" and it is and yet again, it's an extrapolation of the horror movie we're living in RIGHT NOW ... I'm looking at you covid-19 (Wuhan Virus). I listened to it four or five times, I've never, never done that with an audio book, twice/three times, perhaps but never five times in a row.

The second half is boot camp at Parris Island. It's brutal, it's special forces, it's Navy Seals...you don't just "ring the bell" your bell gets rung for you. You need to make the cut, up until the final evolution or you're out. But it's derivative. What sends it over the top is either the final live fire evolution or the first operation, however you want to look at it. That pushes the second half over the top when they finally visit a lesser savage colony ship. It's brutal and heart breaking on several levels. It was perfect finding the scientists that committed seppuku and their creations. One small gripe, it ended a bit too abruptly for my taste and I would like to see several who made it towards the end given a second chance to be legion; such as the girl spy captain who broke her hip and missed the final sprint by a few seconds. If I was running basic, she'd go to the infirmary, heal up and pick up with the second class when she cleared health check. Moreover, she'd only need to pass the final assault to graduate. She earned it, as wars are won in the will. 5 Stars.

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