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- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
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Publisher's Summary
"Space opera the way it ought to be...Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams." (George R. R. Martin)
Following The Accidental War, the second book of a brand-new series set in the Praxis - an epic mix of space opera and military science fiction, from a grand master of science fiction, Walter Jon Williams.
The Praxis, the empire of now extinct Shaa, has again fallen into civil war, with desperate and outnumbered humans battling several alien species for survival. Leading the human forces are star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula, who must find a way to overcome their own thorny personal history to defeat the aliens and assure humanity’s survival.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-10-2022
har-zap-pid
It isn't difficult to merely listen to how previous books handle names and characters. I figured in time I would get over it but it was so jarring and avoidable that it was too much to over look.
The treatment of the disposal of a major antagonist was unsatisfying and lazy. This was trumped by the incredibly insulting betrayal of character and rushed joke of an ending. shame, author.
If it weren't for the butchery of the text by the narrator, I would feel sorry for having to record this book to end it like that.
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- David Rowe
- 04-04-2024
Great series
a huge fan of this series, I thought I would hate the change in narrator but each brings their own style to the books which I appreciate.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-06-2021
Fantastic story.
Brilliant story as always from WJW pity about the performer. I understand sometimes performers need to be changed but to change the reader for the fifth book in the series was jarring. The new performer was flat...monotonous, made me fall asleep (literally) multiple times and lose focus and have to relisten to whole sections.
They also could have done the bare minimum and listened to even one of the previous recordings so they could pronounce place and character names the same way for continuitys sake. One character was pronounced so oddly it took me half the book to realise it was a returning character.
The performer ruined what was otherwise a master-class in space warfare. It was only the strength of the story and my love for WJW's writing that kept me pushing through to the end and I'm glad I did because the story doesn't disappoint.
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- Hayden
- 28-01-2022
Narrator is bad.
This narrator is terrible, inflection is off regularly and voices are all over the show.
Shame they changed from the first series.
Managed to get through none the less. Enjoyed the story.
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- Wuilen
- 16-03-2023
Why changing narrator
Great saga. I have nothing really against the narrator but I don’t think his diction is suited to this story. The main point is the narrator changed twice already so it’s very disturbing on the immersion side. Especially considering the effort the author gone through to describe the caractère and their way of thinking… beside this MAJOR downside the story is great.
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