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Rise of the Ancient Gods: Publisher's Pack 2

Rise of the Ancient Gods, Books 3 & 4

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Rise of the Ancient Gods: Publisher's Pack 2

By: Craig Robertson
Narrated by: Scott Aiello
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Contains Books 3 and 4 of the Rise of the Ancient Gods series.

Torment of the Ancient Gods, Book 3:

In Jon Ryan's life, two billion years down his time stream, he's see many an odd thing. But mixing in the bizarro world of the Ancient Gods has burdened him to the brink with the crazy, the inexplicable, and the just plain wrong. But he remains true to his mission. He must stop the Cleinoid threat to his universe. An impossible appearing task to be certain.

Then Jon suffers an undeniably awkward setback. He is killed. Gáwar, the uber-powerful god of demons, smashes Jon to bits and then eats the little pieces. Bad day for Jon Ryan. Bad day for all our hopes. His friends struggle to go on, to defeat the Ancient Gods, but what seemed impossible before is now not even an acceptable pipe dream.

Despirate to find a capable team, Sapale reunites with Mirraya/Slapgren, the Deft master-witch. Along with Daleria and Tono, they undertake the dangerous and problematic task of locating the alternate timeline Jon Ryan, EJ. They suspect he is able to kill the Cleinoid gods and are anxious to learn his secrets. But EJ is as challenging to deal with as always. Any help he might supply always comes at a price that is difficult to justify.

Wrath of the Ancient Gods, Book 4:

Only Jon Ryan could make such a mess out of the afterlife. Almost a year into his battle against the Ancient Gods, Jon Ryan has little to show for his herculean efforts. The angry gods are surging viciously in our universe. No society can even slow their onslaught. In the Cleinoid universe, they've been stopped for reinforcing their brilliantly successful war in our home, but only just.

Jon and his crew must attack the single most powerful and evil force in the realm of the Ancient Gods.

The odds are astronomically against Jon. His enemies have never tasted defeat. His only advantage is the inconstant loyalty of a once-evil monster Cleinoid corrupted by Jon. And then, Jon decides to go to hell - literally. He will attempt to free from damnation the architect of Cleinoid evil, the master megalomaniac who might just be able to kill off his kin. But, if you plan is to go to hell and resurrect the worst guy who ever live, aren't you asking - begging - for disaster? Not if you're Jon Ryan, #fighterpilot.

©2019 Craig Robertson (P)2020 Podium Audio
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wow

was a great listen did 10hrs straight and still wanted more can't wait for the follow up.

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Guliver's travels 2 billion years in the future

I really like this series funny adventure set in the far future. It reminds me of Gulivers travels with the comment on the civilisations John meets

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Lost in another world

This series is absolutely fantastic, I can't wait to listen to the next book.
Story line is awesome and narrator is brilliant, I close my eyes & get lost in another world....

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amazing as usual

perfect narration and brilliant story as always. Love the series of books, can't wait to listen to the next

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Brilliant as always!!!

Another cracking adventure. I do love these series, just wish the next one was out sooner.

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Great book 📖

Great book love the story and the book narration can’t wait to listen to the next one it’s a great book series I highly recommend it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Fantastic narrator & funny story

The story is good and funny. Some scenes in particular really made me chuckle.
A lot of it is thanks to the narrator who really got the voices down perfectly. He gives the characters life and has a broad range of different voices and accents. Look forward to the non existing cloud.
I recommend this for easy listening.

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A steady decline.

For the first time in the Ryanverse, I've found myself becoming incredibly disappointed. This new series feels like its target audience is that of a pre-teen demographic.

Everything just feels so placid for JR and his crew. Their dialogue (for whatever reason) is censored. Peppering sentences with as many 'Heck's and darn's' as a Jehovah's witness stubbing a toe. The 'banter' between the crew is borderline cringeworthy.

Don't even get me started on the sickly interactions that the couple's keep having. Exchanging (in detail) intimate and cutesy little remarks, inside jokes, nose bink's, hip bumps galore. At times, it felt like I was stuck in an elevator with a teenage couple displaying far too much PDA. It's genuinely painful to listen to.

Spoiler alert - nobody (interesting) dies. Ever. There's never any struggle. Everything constantly works out for JR and his team, to the point where every endeavour had me rolling my eyes in preempted disappointment. Give us story arcs.

I've made it this far in the series, so I'm going to ride it out. on the off chance that the author is reading this - FFS give us GRIT, SWEARING, DEATH AND STRUGGLE. The Forever series delivered on these elements.

Cheeky little ghost critters squealing "I'm hecka fun" is absolutely not what me and the other listeners signed up for.

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More fantastical than fantastic

For fans of John Ryan and space Opera this series might appear to be more fantastical than fantastic sci-fi. There is a lot of humour as one would expect, but it does descend too much into childishness. And the mixture of space and fantasy, might not be appreciated by most readers. The narration is superb given the script. I will of course continue with the series anyway.

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A pity

I’ve enjoyed every single Ryan story to date - but the ancient gods is just too out there.

Difficult characters, unfunny / predictable dialogue - I really had hoped for better.

I’m committed to book 5/6 so will be giving them a go but it feels super slow and padded out - it could have been massively accelerated.

Too many characters left without an end story / critical role which others have described as “padding” . I agree…..

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