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  • Battle Station

  • Star Force, Book 5
  • By: B. V. Larson
  • Narrated by: Mark Boyett
  • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (511 ratings)
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Summary

In Battle Station, Kyle Riggs faces new challenges, new alien fleets, and learns the secrets behind the war he has been fighting for years. In the fifth book of the Star Force Series, the Eden system is in humanity's grasp, but can they keep it? Star Force is weak after a long war, and many yearn to go home. Knowing the machines will return with a new armada eventually, Riggs seeks a more permanent solution. Along the way, worlds are won and lost, millions perish, and great truths are revealed.

Battle Station is a military science fiction novel by best-selling author B. V. Larson.

©2012 B.V. Larson (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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Star Force Consolidates

Battle Station is another good read from B V. Larson and is the fifth book in the Star Force saga. Riggs is consolidating his position within the Sentar system and engages in missions to rest ownership of the Macro manufacturing domes from them in order to boost his own production output. Of course, as usual, the annoying and self-serving Crow character wants to pull Riggs from his important strategic tasks and is rather like the typical bureaucrat who holds high rank and yet has little understanding or appreciation of the front line realities.

Crow tries to do an end-around on Riggs by promoting one of Riggs' subordinates over him but under estimates Riggs' abilities to handle such situations. Political machinations aside, Battle Station sees more development of the mysterious and ethereal "Blues" and some clever manipulation by Riggs of the Macro's and the Nano ships controlled by the enigmatic gas giant dwellers. Riggs also undergoes some of the same treatment that saw his girlfriend, Sandra, further enhance her abilities but goes a step further in his bid to survive the crushing pressures of the Blues home planet in order to establish contact.

The usually predictable Macros try something new in terms of tactics which is a nice twist and it does appear that they can indeed learn and adapt perhaps a little more than was first thought.

Ironically, Larsson's titles for his Star Force books really seem on the whole to reflect the end-point of each story rather than so much the guts of the book so to that end we only find the actual creation of the Battle Station occurring in the final pages of this book. As ever, we are left with a tantalizing prospect for the next in the series which I am looking forward to.

From a strategic standpoint, I think Riggs as a former professor of computer studies should have simply sent the Macros a copy of Windows 8 which would have completely disabled them and ended the war but I suppose you can't have everything! ;)

I'll keep this review short as those reading it will no doubt have read the preceding books in the series and so it is suffice for me to say that Larson delivers another satisfying instalment to the Star Force saga and I have no complaints and can therefore recommend this book as a must-read for fans of the series so far. Once again, if you've spotted this review and were wondering about the Star Force series then I strongly suggest you start from the beginning with the book entitled "Swarm" and go on from there. Although Larson does take time at various points in the story with some exposition that sort of fills in the key pieces if you've not decided to read the series to this point, I would still recommend reading from book 1. Having said that, Larson does make this story a stand-alone read if you just don't want to read the previous books up to this point.

All in all, another consistently good story from Larson which I can recommend.

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Poor postproduction

The adventure continues just as good as it started. Mark Boyer is as good as ever, but the production quality is cheap

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Loved it! 😁

Loved it! Loved it! Loved it! Loved it! Loved it! Loved it! Loved it!
(🤔Couldn't think of anything else to write)

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Great book

5 star's 🌟 I am loving this book series I highly recommend listening to this book 😁📖👍☕

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Book 5 and still Strong

It is amazing to not being able to stop with this story. I am really enjoying thus.

on to book 6

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More of the same

The storyline develops nicely from the previous book. The interaction of human and other biotics is interest, how Kyle adapts the human way of thinking to communicate. Development of Fleet and Marine tactics deal with different sanerios is intreguing.

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More excellent story telling.

Brilliant narration and an excellent story. Kyle Riggs continues to kick metal butt very hard.

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Another winner

Would you listen to Battle Station again? Why?

The Author seems to have found his mojo for this book and the previous one. Really great story lines, I'm intrigued to know what is come next now.

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Another hit

Yet again another spellbinder, superb action and storyline from start to finish, twists and turns every whichway

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learn to speak English

apart from lots of mispronounciation of common words the narration is good and the story is engaging, a good listen

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