Friggin Legendary!

Although part of a greater Universe this is a great book to just jump into. Funny and fast paced action. Phenomenal characters that honestly make me want to jump into the entire universe. Honestly a brilliant piece of writing.

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amazing first book with terrible others

this series is a catstrophy first book is amazing with perfect characters and good story and anything else you might expect in good space opera and I was ready for amazing series instead copleate disaster after since authors change and second book has nothing to do with first one expcept being same universe just a view into trerible and tragic alian life characters were good and story was ok but leads nowhere and with sad ending and third book is even worse is about incompetent Merc captain who can't even come up with any plan or idea and makes one mistake after another and with this being space opera you would think there is infinite possibilities to write about humans uniting with good aliens and fighting the bad ones to make a better feuture instead of depressing picture of humans Corp being traitors ,pirates and rapists who kidnap children of their own kind by the thousands to turn them to slaves or to labs for experiments did the author run out bad alien ideas?who wants to read a book about their own kind turning against their own in a time when there is whole Galaxy full of spiecies that are way more advenced and might by working against them humans are on the bottom of the food chain yet it's a book about humans versus humans

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Well read, but ...

Good book, narrated well, but every chapter and scene has syllables or words missing at the start of the playback.

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Just Okay

I went into listening to this audiobook without much expectations, picking it mainly because the description peaked my interest. Thanks to keeping said expectations low, I wasn't disappointed. Neither was I blown away however.
The story is a standard action movie fare: witty, strong guy going on an adventure with equally witty companions. Guns blazing, lots of explosions, lots of action, it's a high testosterone n' energy package.
The characters are not much to speak of. I felt like they were quite one-dimensional, with most of them feeling the same. It did hurt the enjoyment quite a bit for me.
Both those things I mentioned above create a mixture called "B-Class action sci-fi schlock". It's a fun listen, if you can look past the paper thin characters and forgettable story, and are willing to just tune out the ol' brain cells and enjoy the ride.
I have to praise the narrator, though. It was thanks to his performance that I made it to the end. His ability to put on different voices for some of the characters helps alleviate boredom stemming from how forgettable they are - even if the main character sometimes sounds as if he's on the verge of crying.
Overall, it's just okay. Not amazing, not awful, just okay. If you have audible premium plus, give this one a listen. If not - save your credits/your money for something else.

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LEGEND

THIS STORY WAS A GOOD BOOK TO READ AND IT WAS JUST SOME SHOTS STORIES AND I DID REALLY ENJOY LISTEN TO THEM AND I THINK THAT THE LAST STORY WAS JUST OUTSTANDING AND I DID REALLY ENJOY IT

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I'm ashamed

I'm ashamed, that i did not know this earlier, i'm going to fix this

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low quality space opera in most discernible ways

The main characters ridiculous modesty the use of pre existing human like pantheon of aliens and complete lack of knowledge of physics along with a predictable plot and terrible accents left me cold in the first few chapters , I usually return this low end dross but I followed this to it's American Disney like boring end .
Without being cruel this could have been written by a child Star Wars fan , and narration isn't much better but I suppose with cardboard characters he had little to work with .
The novella at the end was far better and had some merit.

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Confusing

I found this a very difficult book to follow. The first third is about the hero assembling his mercenary band. A flurry of alien races and alien names left me quite bewildered. Probably easier to follow in a book than on audio. The narrator took a while to find his stride so pretty much all characters sounded the same, which didn't help with my muddle.
The rest of the book hop, skips and jumps over 5 years. We drop in from time to time to see what a stand up guy the hero is. He is sooo all round kind, fair and honourable you have to wonder how he ever ended up as this apparently total bad-ass Merc.
Credit to the author for getting on with the story I suppose. Lots of authors could have squeezed a 12 book series out of the time-period. At least then I might have cared something about the characters as they would have been a little less umm cardboardy.

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