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Rage World

Undying Mercenaries, Book 23

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Rage World

By: B.V. Larson
Narrated by: Mark Boyett
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The Rebellion against Earth expands to new worlds.

Left to die on a volcanic world by the Skrull, McGill and his mercenaries face waves of missile attacks with nowhere to hide. When the Skrull seal themselves inside an impenetrable energy dome, McGill knows he has to get creative. Even if that means sabotaging alien power plants, blackmailing his superior officers, and using his own troops as bait in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

But the real enemy isn't the dome, or even the Rebel Blue Skrull forces trying to overrun the planet. It's McGill's commanding officers, who are looking for any excuse to execute him for insubordination. Now McGill has to pull off his riskiest gambit yet—turning certain defeat into victory while staying just barely on the right side of mutiny.

Rage World is the latest action-packed entry in B.V. Larson's bestselling Undying Mercenaries series.

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if this is the end of the story we'll that sucks, needs a conclusion McGill needs to retire and have a whole book about him living on his swamp

need more

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I really enjoy the series, and this one doesn’t feel as if the writers used an ai to assist in the writing. The last book did. None the less this work still has a few issues, where characters are suddenly infantilised and then almost redeemed. Larson hints at deeper issues and a more nuanced character, but it’s almost as if he’s afraid to take the stories there.
I am a rusted on reader, for some reason I enjoy these books far too much. That’s a compliment as these books are my go to when I don’t want to think too hard about anything at all. Larson provides a fun fiction, but it often just hints at the promise of a much more nuanced book.
This story was nicely melancholiac but that aspect of the story feels as if it’s jammed in. He hasn’t done a J. Michael Straczynski and mapped the story arch planning it meticulously over years and decades and sometimes that shows. At least that’s how it feels to me. I imagine it’s taken the author by surprise that it’s been this popular.
I’m looking forward to the new books that will come as Larson looks like he’s finished with the filler books and has an arc he’s working with…
What did I think? It was a decent story, he’s returned to old themes, a campaign and he’s put in what I can only feel is a reference to contemporary Americas Eichmann syndrome so I’m looking forward to see if he’s willing to gamble on the fact that McGill has changed and so has his readership.

This is a tricky one as I’m a rusted on reader…

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No progress against a story arc... just another planet for James to fight on. More of the same as the last ten or so books in the series.

feels like it was written as a contractual obligation. No heart.

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