Mark Boyett legend

second set of books I have listen to what a legend thank you will definitely be looking for my next listen from you

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Good value, but story is lacking

Great value: 26hrs of reasonable sci-fi for £10. There are some interesting sci-fi concepts to enjoy, but I found the characters difficult to bond with and the numerous is space battles having some science holes in them (enemies being port or starboard, never up or down. Or enemies being out of laser range one minute and inside it the next).
Still, if you’re not too picky about it, you get a lot for your money.

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A rambling yarn

I've downloaded a few of these expansive and generally multi-part sci-fi epics and this one is better than many in concept and scope. You don't have to concentrate too hard, so they're good for insomnia or long journeys! However, the main issue I have with many of this genre, and this one is no exception, is that they routinely seem to default to a US-Marine-based shoot-em-up in which the outer space location is largely irrelevant and the story could be transposed to Vietnam/Iraq/France etc etc in more recent times... There's lots of aerial dog fighting too, slotted in between the recurrent Marine gun action. The more thoughtful narrative bits about science, exploration or origin or even galactic politics and associated machinations are much more varied and, I found, much more interesting for that. I actually eventually started skipping through some of the fighty bits of this title to get to chapters that had a bit less gun action and more substance, and a slightly less predictable narrative thread. Let's fervently hope that this vision of a constantly warring, militarised galactic travelling future isn't how it actually turns out if the human race ever does make it to the stars!

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WAL stick with it!

It took me a little while to get into the books, but it was worth it. I’m not sure but it felt like there where a lot of small homages to other sifi shows and books in the story. I enjoyed the story and I’m glad it was three books as it gave more time to explore sub plots.

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Wak editing

A very well read and potentially brilliant story spoilt by week editing resulting in too many flaws in the storyline, 

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Great wrier

Great writer good story have been reading more and more of his titles and now buy his work regularly thanks

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As shallow as Perry Rhodan, only worse

I gave up on this after 2 hours of listening, and I wish I could get a refund. I got this because of the rating, and this will be the first and last time I blindly trusted the Audible rating. Next time, I'll check the actual book's rating first...

10 y.o. me would have liked it, but I personally am 25 years too old for this.

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Great space opera with action to boot

I'm a a new audible member and finished a few books but I just happened o see this boxset while looking for my next one.
The book is excellent and narrater is also very good and if you like space battles and action you are in for a treat.

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not my cup of tea

I got bored with this book (these books) after an hour, the story lacked interesting characters, and the storyline was the same as many of its genre, no recommendation from me.

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very slow

very slow, with some big plot jumps. I'm afraid that I dumped it before finishing book 1.

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