inconsistencies in story line

this book has so many gaps - you can tell it was written in sections and those sections don't always sync.

1. mcgill meets up with the same primus 2 times but the second meeting doesn't flow from previous meeting.
2.ship was identified as from Rigel then mcgill has to ask where ship is from
3. mcgill confesses a crime to Galina but at end of book she doesn't know anything about it.
4. End of book Mcgill hears about an investigation but he has already spoken to the magwa about it...didn't understand how he could be worried about it at all

there were a few less ittitating flaws but this book just needed to be read end to end

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Brilliant

I thought this was a fantastic story and well written book - thoroughly enjoyed it. Narration excellent

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Awesome

One of the best of the series, hope to hear much more of McGill in the future.

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Storm World

Loved this book. Captivating from start to finish. I've read other reviews and can attest that the undying mercenary series keeps getting better.
Highly recommend Bv Larson.

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Old Enemies & new Allies

The Undying Mercenaries series has become just about my favourite series from B V Larson closely followed by the excellent Star Force saga. So, as usual, just as soon as I had the chance to pre-order Storm World, I did so. I have never been disappointed with any book in this series to date. Some have been better than others but none of them what I'd call bad. Now, if you thought that leads me to say that Storm World was disappointing you'd be wrong. No, just prefacing the point that not a "bad" book in this series exists.

In fact, I'd say that Storm World is actually one of the better in the recent group of this series and, to me at least running to some 78 chapters, is a bit longer than is typical. This is a welcome change as we get more elements in this story than perhaps previous books. Our hapless hero, James McGill, has adventures on no fewer than three worlds and one of them is an old battleground and the other is a surprise.

I don't think anyone that has read this series thus far is going to not want this book so I shall not go over again what it is I like about Larson's accessible form of military science fiction. We all know that Larson's style of story telling isn't "high brow" like other authors in this genre. Instead, what we get with Larson is straightforward, uncomplicated action adventure. Sure, some of the situations and solutions are rather simplistic but this is what endears the character of James McGill to me. He is a talented con man in his dealings to worm his way out of tight situations but I think I'd rather consume stories of this type if given the choice between something like this or other much heavier science fiction. Sure, the heavy stuff is often superbly written, profound and clever but it can leave you less entertained than these unpretentious action adventure format stories. Ive said it numerous times but this sort of story style would lend itself well to the big screen in a similar fashion to the 1998 Starship Troopers movie which I'm sure has inspired Larson as well as others to pen books such as this.

Larson has produced a very entertaining story here with multiple threads and plot elements and it should offer a solid foundation to continue this enjoyable series far into the future. There is enormous scope and potential here with new alien races and if there's one thing Larson does well, it's aliens. He manages to come up with very imaginative creatures with their own traits, culture and personality and it's these that McGill so often uses to his advantage in dealings with them.

So nice to see that the excellent Mark Boyett is narrating once more and he delivered his customary solid performance here rendering all the familiar characters as well as new ones which are also distinct and fresh.

Of course, it wouldn't be a review from me unless I threw in a tiny nit pick into the mix. One plot point which was contradictory was the fact that in chapter 18 McGill was told that none of the Blood Worlders could be revived. However, later on in the story we see the huge near humans being revived. This is in one way a key plot point error but I liked the story so much I didn't really care :)

Storm World is another adventurous romp, with James McGill and his legion on another harsh planet facing an old as well as new foe. I can't wait to see where this series goes next.

Another hit in my opinion and one of the best in the series so far.

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Series review

I gave up Sci-Fi for a very long time, but was brought up on series like the Stainless Steel Rat and Robert Heinlein so I thought I'd dip back in as crime novels have become so dreary and generally dead-ended.

I am really glad I did in this case. I went through the whole of this series in a couple of weeks because I enjoyed them so much, there is a blend of elements of action and intrigue although as some reviewers have pointed out, there are all sorts of sometimes quite significant holes in the core plot lines. In this case the narration is so good that he smooths out a lot of the wrinkles just by the performance, with only some minor fails with certain accents, etc. I am really glad that they've kept the same narrator - as given the style, changes would have grated. Some attention to basic plot detail would be useful (like what I am sure were inexplicable changes in shoe sizes). The worst thing about listening to all 10 "On the spin" has been the way that negatively highlighted great swathes of repetition. I know that some of that is needed in each book to allow new readers (out of series order) to pick up on certain key principles, but a lot of it is padding pure and simple. As I write this it sounds much more negative than I'd want, but the fact that I went through them so quickly and in sequence tells you how much I enjoyed them and how willing I was to suspend disbelief. I'd prefer less of the growing use of swear words, but that's just because I'm really fed up with that in general.

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Good story line not the best by mark this time.

The story has been great to listen to, with all the previous series in one go it takes a couple of weeks to get through. This book is as good as some of the first books.
Mark this time seamed to have had a few bad days as the voices tended to merge a little.
Overall very good.

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issues with voice and some skipping

start of chapters are oticeable by narrators voice. starts muffled and then back to normal.
Great sequel though

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done again a grate story I can't wait for the next

well that was just what I expect from this serise keep them coming and you'll have my credits.

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Another good book

Good book, unfortunately it contains a few logical flavs. Apart from that highly recommended. I'm looking forward to the one.

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