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Fanfiction level writing read by excellent voice actors

Revisado: 03-24-25

I hate to say it, but the plotline in this book is just bad. Everything the Republic does is ineffectual, and Devlin Stone is incapable of doing anything right. The first half of the book had me cringing almost the entire time. It is written from the perspective of totalitarian aggressors from a backwards violence based society, and the author tries to make you emphasize with them. The dialogue is pretty poor as well, and none of the characters are particularly interesting. Alaric Ward is an obvious Mary Sue, and is singularly unlikable for how much the author tries to make you like him. All of his supporting characters are various tropes, from strong and deadly red haired lady who doesn't take crap, to second strong and deadly red haired lady who doesn't take crap (seriously. there are two of them), and other assorted tropes. This book is a clumsy reboot to the battletech universe. personally, it is several hours and an audible credit I won't get back.

The one redeeming feature is the description of mech based combat. It was ok to listen to, and fairly well described.

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Acceptable Foray into Battletech

Revisado: 03-02-25

It was a fun book overall; written from the perspective of arguably the "bad guys" as they invade and conquer planets. The main character had growth, and reasonable believability.

the voice acting was really quite good for a battletech novel; which I was very happy about.

There was no resolution to the novel, however. It just sort of ended. Also, many of the plotlines throughout were unresolved and unexplained.

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Good

Revisado: 11-21-22

This book gave me an overview of a history I didn't know. Some of the latter portion of the book was a bit preachy, and the author seemed to talk out of both sides of their mouth when it came to communal guilt; very much a "if you aren't with me, you are against me" approach. But there is still a lot of good perspective to be found in the book, and it presents a very clear picture of the evils caused by compromising faith for convenience. I reccomend this book to anyone from the USA, or those that would like to understand the important history of systemic racism with the Christian church.

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Slow and odd start

Revisado: 11-07-21

Old Frank Herbert is getting a little weird in this one, especially near the beginning. There are some odd sexual themes that came off as more odd that interesting, but some of the world building was good. The performance was as good as usual, however.

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Okay dune book

Revisado: 09-27-21

This dune book has some really good character setup, and it seems to be preparing for some cool stuff in later books. the later part of the book got really cool, but was marred with cringy sex content. not sure what the author is getting at here, but that could have been left out.

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amazing book and series

Revisado: 10-25-19

Eisenhorn is an amazing series, and this is a solid conclusion. Game of thrones doesn't have anything on the sad character deaths in this series. Poor Gregor.

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Epic character story

Revisado: 09-30-19

After this book, Cawl is my new favorite character in the 40k universe. The narration for everything was solid, except for the various use of 'bang.' Stort-wise it worked great, but it did sound a bit awkward.

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