Please note before starting.

You will want to listen to Mech Wars: The Complete Series before starting this book. This will give you the back story of Jake Price.

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Familiar Character's

love this book. I like it when there are character's that you get to like and follow like Vin Husher and Fesky, reading follow on books make it easier to get into the book.

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Start as you mean to go on

The first book may have been a little slow to get going, but this second book more than makes up for it.

Finally, Captain Husher has gown a backbone in his dealings with the politicians. That said, I don't think I can quite come to terms with a floating city come warship, but, hey, it could happen.

This is definitely a series worth following and I look forward to the next instalment.

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More of the good stuff, with a 'but'.

Pride of the Fleet is the second book in the Ixan Legacy trilogy, the military scifi series written by Scott Barlett. The Interstellar Union is pressed by their new enemy, but they are holding on. A new alien species make their entry, and they quickly ally with the union, lending them more firepower, but they themselves also have their own agenda. Unfortunately, the enemys capability of shifting in and out of our universe still proves hard to fight, and Captain Husher is doing his best to figure out how to fight this new way of warfare, and figure out a way to destroy the progenitor threat once and for all.

The writing style and audiobook narration by Mark Boyett is unchanged, and still very positive. This book has more action compared to the previous entry, and is more akin to the first trilogy, Ixan Prophecies, and dials down the politics a bit. That being said, the politics now moves up to a different level, which suited the story very well. Husher now has his ship firmly under his command, mostly, and now his problems are on the galactic scale, and this was nicely done and very exciting to listen to. He now has problems with a pro-Sapian (Humans!) uprising, that are very fascist in their beliefs and actions, and while this wasn’t the most exciting part of the book, it was blending in very nicely since it was playing on themes introduced in the first novel.
The middle part of the book was clearly the weakest IMHO, in part of the fascist uprising, but also because the book introduced a secondary plotline, a new enemy, and new characters, all from Scott Barletts Mech Wars series (I assume). If you’ve read those books, you probably new exactly what was going on, but for one like me, it was a bit uninteresting. I didn’t know the characters, and this new enemy, and both were lacking quite a bit in depth, simply because I was missing their introductions and backgrounds. The author did a very good job intermingling them with this trilogy, but for new readers I recommend reading the Mech Wars series before reading this one, to get everything out of it. It was VERY clear a lot has happened that I didn’t know about, and while I had an easy time following everything, it just presented way too many questions, especially with regards to the new superpowered enemy which, fortunately wasn’t mentioned very much.
My second complaint is that our main enemy in the series, Thot, is really very uninteresting this time around. He’s evil for the sake of being evil. Fortunately he is not the main focus for most of the book.
The book ends with a giant cliffhanger, so if you read this one, you’ll automatically want to read the next one too. :P

Again, did you like the previous entries in the series, you will also enjoy this one. I will say though, that despite not having listened to the Mech Wars series, I do recommend that one read/listen to those first, as you will get most out of the story. It can be listened to independently though, and still be enjoyed.

I received this audiobook for free in return for a review. I have no affiliation with the author, the narrator, the publisher, or their pets (Although I am sure the latter are quite nice!).

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A Real Gem

Loved this whole series. Not sure how I managed to fail to submit a review for this ages ago. Intelligent sci-fi without the unending left wing bias of most modern sci-fi. Great stuff.

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Pride of the fleet

Pride of the fleet is the second book in the Ixan Legacies trilogy so if you haven't read the first yet go back and pick up Capital Starship or this book won't make much sense.

Right at the end of the last book we learnt that Jake Price would be returning to the story with his team of mech pilots, I was really looking forward to seeing how the mechs would fit into the story and how and if Price and Husher would cross paths.

I really can't go into much detail about this book without giving away some minor spoilers, so before I do let me say that I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to fans of the series it's got action as well as space politics and the characters we know and love feature in plenty of arcs which will come to a conclusion in the next book.

*** Spoilers ahead, turn back now ***



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So Price and Jake's paths do cross and as we all hoped begin to work together, there are many challenges that the crew have to face including some of the political tensions which came to light in the last book. These parts frustrated me as I was listening as it really seemed like whatever Husher did he couldn't win.

There is more of the same infighting in this book including quite a large battle against an unexpected enemy which I really thought was very downplayed in the book and needed much more significance placed upon it. It may come back around in the next but for some reason I think we have heard the last of it.

I've already got the next book queued up and ready to go, looking forward to seeing how it ends.

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