Loved it.

fantastic, well built world.

engaging throughout but the non-american accents do leave something to be desired :)

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American trying a Scotish accent LOL

Good story and pace but the speaker struggles with some of the accents but is gives me a laugh.

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not bad

entertaining enough story but can be flat and easy to get lost in. will continue on as it is easy listening

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exciting but too short for a credit

fantastic instalment to the series but this was short for a whole credit they should bring in half credit stories reconsidering if it's worth carrying on with this story

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Enjoyable

Enjoyed it but dont be fooled by length of book. The last 1 hour 10mins is a preview of book 4, a bit on a con.

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great book

I have listed to all of them they are brilliant I highly recommended this is the third time 👍 great story and there are other books to go with the series 😃

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ok

it's an ok book but there were times when I wished it would end soon. I found that I got lost and did not really know what was happening. thr performer is as usual amazing and without him I probably would not have known who was saying what

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The racism gets worse…

And *not* the truly offensive Scots accent… the narrator is improving book by book, until I expect his accents to be about average towards the end.

No, this book is let down by being so ‘white saviour’ (except with people with beaks) that it’s offensive. The total racial superiority of human warfare is something of a given - this is a setting where 90% of the galaxy had been consumed by a species that comfortably seeds every single system with at least one autonomous, immortal remote drone, and humanity somehow survive the attack, and then lead the fight back through the principle of being OUTRAGEOUSLY American. This, you can kind of buy into. But it’s overblown from the minute the humans arrive and the aliens, despite practicing warfare, have never practiced defending their own homes.

That would be tolerable, but then the author makes the humans-in-funny masks… a target for his ‘look how amazingly perfect and humanitarian the heroes are’ lectures - the true height comes when humans lecture and abuse a race that had survived hundreds or thousands of years of sunlight travel for their method of choosing who goes first (the eldest and most skilled, as indicated by rank of attainment within a complete survivalist society) who are, for some reason, portrayed as being middle aged, robed and ‘scholarly’ and then physically assault the leaders and demand that ‘women and children’ go first, explicitly explaining that the women and children look ‘desperate’.

The series is supposed to be about conflicting hard choices, I get that, I don’t even like the Dotari as a species - they’re kind of uninventive and seem very much like humans in masks in later series where they feature.

But having the humans fly in to save the day, having had the aliens be so pathetic as to lose their entire generation fleet bar this planet to the bad guys, and have a society that we’re supposed to cheer on getting ripped apart was only not offensive in 1904.

I couldn’t be bothered to listen to the final few hours, I skipped to the dramatic ending and continued on - I’d advise people that they can basically skip this book entirely, as it doesn’t contribute to ‘Ember Wars’ lore you need for many of the *constant* covert references and in-jokes in later books.

You could do worse than skipping through all the scenes with the Iron Hearts in, if you really want to have a rough idea of the plot. They are, as ever, Armour.

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Entertaining but not too thought provoking

Have listened to better tales so I may not continue with this series. The story seems to have lost its way somehow.

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