New Frontiers
The Expansion Wars Trilogy, Book 1
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New Frontiers
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Narrated by:
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Mark Boyett
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By:
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Joshua Dalzelle
About this listen
The Phage War had been a devastating conflict for the Terran Confederacy. Even with the destruction of their terrifying, implacable foe, humanity is still reeling. Political alliances are crumbling, and their mighty fleet is in tatters. There is nothing to celebrate, even after such a complete victory.
They soon learn that there are other stellar neighbors - and they've been watching the conflict with great interest. One species comes with an offer of friendship and alliance, but humanity is weary and distrustful, their only interactions with aliens having resulted in the near eradication of their kind.
Before the ashes of war have been fully swept away, Captain Celesta Wright is dispatched to the Frontier with a small taskforce to investigate a mysterious signal while the Confederacy struggles to hold itself together. A partnership with this new species could help accelerate the recovery effort, but is the offer too good to be true? Can humanity risk another fight with an advanced alien species right on the heels of the bloodiest war that had ever been waged?
New Frontiers is the first book of the Expansion Wars Trilogy, an all-new adventure in the Black Fleet universe.
©2016 Joshua Dalzelle (P)2017 Podium PublishingExcellent
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it did not take long to realies i have heared the pervice searies
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great book
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Nail biting non-stop military action
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But I found the characters, sense of scale, and impetus to care about the progressing plot to be simple and lacking.
The best character was Wolfe, but only because most of his presence is described through other's views of him creating a larger than life image next to other characters. This is washed away by his normal presence when he is on centre stage. Whilst that was a good thing for the realism of hero worship usually being based on exaggerations, it didn't highlight that realism as much as it made the other characters simply feel pale.
The sense of scale and time was odd too, but I can't pinpoint if this was due to the writing or the narration in moving from one scene/act to the next.
Space travel is described as vast distances and time, and yet it glosses over the weight of those distances and time on characters entirely beside a simple occasional highlight of a character feeling tired.
The narration (personally for me) didn't feel emotionally invested in the story being told. Different characters were spoken in different voices, but I could discern little emotional presence in the lines delivered. Although, I'm sure this wasn't helped by the descriptions of what and how the characters voiced their lines. The difference to a reader between "He said," "He raged," or even, "He said angrily," can be huge when discerning the characters emotional tone. There was a lot of, "He said," "She said."
In having made those criticisms (Just my personal opinion of the story/delivery of it), it was a solid novel, but being my rebound story from finishing the Merkiaari Wars Saga it was up for stiff competition.
I might be back for the rest of the series.
A well written novel
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Great, fast paced and engaging space opera
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