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Initiate

By: Joshua Anderle, Michael Anderle
Narrated by: Scott Aiello
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Publisher's Summary

It was just one fight, but it changed Kaiden Jericho's life forever.

He was in a gang but was trying to change his future, when a board member of the elite advanced academy NEXUS made a snap decision and offered him a chance.

Then fate, or an unbalanced genius, offered him another.

The Nexus Academy is for the elite trainees from Earth, and now trials from our alien allies, as they teach the future generation how to fight, lead, hack, spy, and many other talents and tactics.

Hired by companies, governments, and NGOs, these graduates work to pay off the massive debt their training at the academy accumulates.

You don't become the best of the best by staying alive. With the Animus, you are closer to perfection with each death you suffer.

Kaiden Jericho would rather skip the death part, thank you very much.

Includes special note from co-author Michael Anderle.

©2018 Joshua Anderle and Michael Anderle (P)2019 Podium Publishing

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It's pronounced Cores-man NOT Corpse-man

The story is great, however, only 2 things let it down and yes they are minor but for me, annoying. Scott's pronunciation of Corpsman (military medic) as Corpse-man (a zombie?) stood out like a sore thumb & his Australian accent was abysmal (as is 99.9% of anyone who's not Australians is). Did it ruin the novel? Absolutely not, was it cringeworthy Yup.

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Narrator sucks at accents

Great story! Very entertaining! Definitely downloading the 2nd book. Loved the dynamics between Kaiden and Chief.

The Narrator (Scott?) sucks at accents, particularly on the Australian accent. As an Australian, I cringed so hard at hearing him talk like that. He sounded like he couldn’t decide if he wanted to sound bogan or as a Scottish person. And his narration between Sasha or Laury was too confusing. They sounded so similar at one stage then different in another. No consistency in their accent.

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It's ok

Not great, but ok. Interesting ideas, but not much of a story. I don't think I'll be investing the time into book 2. The way it finished, book two should have been part of book one anyway.
I wonder sometimes if the authors carve up a book into 2 or more parts to maximize on profit....
The narrator is not bad, but terrible with the Australian accent, better to stear clear of doing an accent rather than butchering it and doing it badly..

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A good read.

loved it , I think there is lots of room for character development and plots. kind wish I new more about a main plot but with the wise cracking main character and developing story line I'm looking forward to book 2.

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Not a bang for buck book

Honestly, it's a great listen. Got up to book 8. that's as far as I can go at some point I realised. Each book is over in a flash, and For me and my listening habits, the length doesn't justify the Credit.

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Fun action great Wit.

Loved the characters and the humour. Plenty of action and smiles. Many a time I would be walking along smiling due to the banter of chief and Gerico

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One of the best books ive listen to in a while.

Good story a bit predictable but all and all a good book.
good reader to listen to.

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Happy Days

Enjoyable book to listen to if you’re open to the sci-fi fantasy aspect. Into gaming myself, the down side is that I’m hooked on it and will have to continue the other books…

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excellent audio and a nice short story. exciting

excellent audio by the narrator

a nice short story for those that like the genre. reasonably paced and exciting

also has a conclusion so you're not left hanging

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good read

I was mildly impressed . as I have found most books at the moment hard to get through( more me than the book I think. had no trouble with this one

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