
Gods & Legionnaires
Galaxy's Edge: Savage Wars, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Lang
About this listen
The Battle Lines Are Drawn.
The Coalition is reeling. New Vega and its other worlds have fallen beneath the boot of the newly allied Savage marines, and the death count continues to rise at a staggering rate. One thing is clear: The war to come will be a fight for the very survival of the species. For both sides in this conflict, now is the time to become what fate, and victory, demand.
The Savages - post-human monsters who believe themselves to be gods - are intent on remaking civilization in their own violent and pathological image. Yet their alliance is tenuous. Among the many tribes of the Uplifted, as they call themselves, the struggle for supremacy rages on. All know that in the end there can be only one tribe. One leader. One truth.
Meanwhile humanity’s last, desperate hope is the formation of a new kind of fighting force: The Legion. Those select few who are hardy enough - or foolish enough - to undertake the relentless, grueling, and merciless candidate training will have the chance to be transformed into mythical heroes...or die trying. They will be pushed beyond their physical and mental limits as they seek to survive an unforgiving planet, lost and derelict ghost spaceships, and, worst of all, the cold, unflinching brutality of Tyrus Rechs. At the end of this crucible, only the one percent of the one percent will earn the right to be called...
...Legionnaires.
Performed by Stephen Lang (Tombstone, Avatar), Galaxy’s Edge: Gods & Legionnaires brings you into the mind of the Savage marines and shows you the heart required to enter the Legion in the second epic installment of Galaxy’s Edge: Savage Wars.
©2019 Galaxy’s Edge, LLC (P)2020 Audible, Inc.Amazing story, amazing delivery.
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another great one in the series
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Two incredible tales, Cole and Anspach smash it out of the park again. Stephen Lang is amazing, Ray Porter and he are by far the best GE Narrators.
Do I get to leave another review on second and third listen... ?
Gob smacked and in love!
Outstanding - My new favourite GE book
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This is a diamond in the rough, a blend of traditional sci-fi - taking some alien concept and seeing how far an author can roll with it, and the galaxy's edge desperate military heroism. Which it blends magnificently.
The book largely exists inside the head of a savage marine, which comes with a heavy dose of introspection.
The real beauty of this book is that at the end your left thinking that, despite these people being cannibals, despite them being slavers, despite them having a class based hierarchie that encourages them to kill their friends to get head in life. Despite all that, maybe these people aren't that bad..
Best book in the galaxy edge serives
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For starters you finally get to see things from the Savage perspective. Which is a manic, hamburger fuelled, video game, celebrity existential crisis.
Almost as if Dr Disrespect went to space and went insane over the course of 500 years.
It did take a bit of adjustment to get into the first half but worth it as it does open your eyes to the madness of the Savages.
Lang stands out once again and performed amazingly.
A fever dream followed by the forging of The Legio
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Bit of a slog
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What it brings to Galaxy’s edge is very relevant. It’s well written and shows the flexibility of the authors. I highly recommend it to all fans of the series.
Bad note is the production of the narration. As with the first book the audio is a combination of 2-3 seperate readings pieced together, seemingly by a 40y/o, 50y/o and 60y/o the way the voice varies in places. Not as bad as the first book of the Savages series but offensive to the ears when it happens.
Excellent
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don't listen if you are trying to stay awake.
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Exhausting
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Do yourself a favour save your money/credit and wait for the next book, which I hope .... HOPE will be like the first.if you wanna know a brief 'good, bad and ugly' review that may contain plot points read below. If you want to read/listen to this book... I warned you.
Stephen Lang... I take my hat off to you sir for reading this book.
The Good:
It's hanging on by a thread in an awesome series in an awesome fictional universe, with great potential. It contains characters we came to admire, cherish and, if I be so bold, care about through their journey in the last book. Rex - old hat and staple character, loose cannon, wants to blow stuff up. Casper - nice bloke cares about people, doesn't want to blow stuff up, the Wildman, Davies, McAphie etc etc the people that fought together and almost died on New Vega... and that's literally it.
The Bad:
The first 34 yes you read that right THIRTY friggen FOUR chapters of this book are dedicated to the savages ... no wait one Savage Marine... who after endless philosophical and existential ranting and ravings (the likes of which would have probably sent all those on the 'Lighthuggers' mad in the first place if they were ever read it in this fictional universe) kills a bunch of humans.
The next 16 chapters really make up for... oh no wait its basically a really long drawn out over the top boot camp to become legionnaires, where Rex is an utter, unequivocal turd and possibly even bordering on the sadistic side with his "TRAINING" which includes physical conditioning random marches, swims and includes with a recruit drowning in a sand pit because of exhaustion. where he is then buried right next to the sand pit by Rex as a lesson to the recruits to not drown. WHAT?
I get it Rex has to condition these recruits into being the toughest in the galaxy and what not but even Casper starts questioning Rex about his mental condition and the purpose of it all.
These people that you've been through Hell with on new Vega, brothers and sisters baptised in Fire means Rex knows what they are capable of and allows them to... NOPE he treats em like rubbish, won't even use their names and pretty much denies knowing any of them or what they've gone through. and when they get into a fight Rex pretty much treats em as cannon fodder, something Rex was so annoyed about in the first book..Huh?
The Ugly:
The total, utter, complete lack of character development.
And the introspection of the Savage Marine. I appreciate the need for a bit of back story about the Savages ... all up for that.
But the whole thrill of this universe is that we don't know everything, there are mysteries, the histories of things are unknown. Intrigue and mystery lead to great plots that keep your audiences wanting to come back for more. When you try to humanise the savages, when you try to explain the rational of something that has been explained as a post human, psychotic crazy and completely nuts, then it just becomes a fight between two opposing sides. Not a struggle between humanity and something else.
The way Rex is developed in this book makes me want to root for the savages in certain chapters.
And just ... JUST AS it starts to get good in the last 3 chapters... well that it folks wait for the next book.
Spoiler Ale.. oh no wait there's nothing to Spoil
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