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  • Welcome to Hell

  • The Tasmanian Special Forces Group, Book 1
  • By: C. R. Daems
  • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
  • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (250 ratings)
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By: C. R. Daems
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
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Summary

Jolie was 3 when she found she was ugly and deformed.

She was 5 when she found she was a subhuman and an outcast. She was 7 when five boys and two girls dragged her out of the orphanage and beat her unconscious, leaving her lying bleeding and broken in the street.

She was content to lie there and die, tired of being hated and abused. But a frail old man with wispy white hair and a long beard wasn't content to let her die. He not only saved her, but he adopted her and passed on his unique martial art to her.

She was 20 when she headed to Delphi, the center of the United Systems of Perileos (USP) and the planet of her birth father, to find her place in his society.

Based on her unique upbringing, she decides to join the USP military, requesting to be assigned to the Tasmanians SFG, an elite all-male unit. The military brass is reluctant to deny her request and admit their enlistment contract permits bait-and-switch assignments. Instead, they agree to let her enter the school, thinking she couldn't possibly succeed - a Chihuahua competing against Rottweilers — and plan to make an example of her when she fails.

Although Jolie is small, she is not what she appears. But can her adopted father's art enable her to survive the treachery of the military brass, the grueling of the school, the prejudices of the instructors, and the testosterone of an all-male class.

And if she succeeds, can she thrive in the high-octane and all male environment of the Tasmanians?

©2019 C. R. Daems (P)2020 Podium Publishing

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Good if short

This is a good military book with lots of action. The atmosphere of a military unit is well created and stay away from the Hollywoodish military bs that we see much to often. I am a veteran of the Danish army but soldiers across nations can quickly spot if an author understands the soldiers mind or not and it does not matter if it the Roman legions or Colonial marines.
Women in combat and in special forces is a big topic in the book and I feel that Fox is a female lead with a realistic chance to pass such training.
Then my army has had women in combat since Bosnia so it isn't a question anymore just a fact of army life.
Fox is of course exceptional but unlike a heroine like Winter we are not told constantly, instead we are shown how good she is more in the way of Honor Harrington.
At times the other soldiers seem a bit too dense but some explanations are needed to fill out the plot and world.
I got the book free as part of my membership, do the same and have a go, I will get the next book for sure

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Loved it

I normally struggle with audio books but damn I was hooked from the start. Brilliant story and fantastic narration. Thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait to listen to more of this and see what crazy antics happen next.

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GI Jane in Space but Fun

This is a strange but fun book. Essentially like GI Jane (the film), a woman joins special forces, people are misogynistic, she proves herself, everyone likes her. It's a complete Mary Sue powertrip but it is really, really fun and I enjoyed listening to it; so much so that I bought the sequel and listened to it immediately after.

The characters are fine, there are some baddies but there's never any military ethics or PTSD. Everyone is enthusiatic, loves war and agrees with the main character. The main character is very much written in the I'm-not-like-those-other-girls style and immediately assumes no other woman can accomplish what she has because they're women.

She also claims to be raised in a unisex manner but plays up to a lot of female stereotypes for her male friends amusement. Her dialogue in a non-military setting isn't great. You want to skip the post-mission storytelling bits by skipping to the end of the chapter. They're only a few minutes but cringeworthy and painful but everyone cheers and applauds (as they do whenever the main character says anything in a non-military setting).

The world also makes no sense. You have a multi-planet spacefaring empire of largely humans and they train their elite trools in small unit tactics and knife fighting. They even get sent against an otherwise undefeatable group of bow and arrow weilding jungle folk. They have drones. They have infrared. Jungle bandits wouldn't keep killing off every army unit sent it.

On top of that the conflicts are small and the units sent in are always undersized. "They're planning a planetary rebellion. They've got hundreds of people. We'll send a few dozen." I'm not sure there was ever a "war" with over 1,000 people involved.

The plot is episodic but works well to get the characters in different situations and make them tense and exciting.

The narrator is also quite slow. Even if you don't normally speed up I'd recommend at least 1.1x speed. I usually listen at 1.05x and that still felt too slow.

It may sound like I've trashed this book, and I sort of have but the reason I've given it 5 stars is despite all of that stuff it is fun! Like really Fast and Furious, Point Break or Con Air, it's madcap dumb fun that you can just sit back and enjoy without engaging your brain too much.

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Average rehash of GI Jane

Emily Woo Zeller did a decent narration. Even for throaty military males.

The story itself was entirely predictable with a ton of missed opportunities. Clever martial arts master female outwits two dimensional male culture who seem to drop ten IQ points whenever she is around.

I would have loved to hear more of her adopted father's martial arts training and philosophy rather than five sentences covering seven years. Knowing senior military I would have liked the General Staff characters outlook to be less chauvinistic and more rounded. Senior officers don't talk like this book outside of movies.

Frankly the SEAL style training felt nothing like some of the books by ex members. Again there was a missed opportunity for the protagonist to show how she would cope mentally and physically with the challenges. Maybe how the martial arts training helped. Instead, she is just written as good at everything.



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Like it and don't know why

The narration is good. The story too. Although I am not sure why. I began listening, it wasn't boring, so I finished the book. Makes sense? Have no idea what genre this story is either. Landed here by accident and somehow am liking it. Even if the heroine is strangly perfect, and has suddenly everything going her way. Maybe the beginning of the story is so grim, you can't leave the heroine till the story ends. Wanting her to succeed. But the story is so slim on emotions, it would make more sense if I just liked the battles and the reasoning behind the moves. Certainly a new category for me.

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A good yarn

What can I say?
A female Chuck Norris.
Story is bit corny, but still a good read.

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Amazing

Just amazing, but what's wrong with the changing calibre of the M200 Every time It is explained the calibre changes from 10.36 What is the correct caliber to 13.36 and more with the Tavor being 5.56 then being 9m
There must be more with that but can't remember all the messing about.

But apart from all of the small discrepancies, the story and the whole lot is just incredible. I loved the entire story series and can't wait for the next one.






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Fantastic

What a story, of such amazing adventure. Look forward to listening to the rest of the serial.

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Unoriginal

The plot, including several scenes, are more or less identical to the movie GI Jane.

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Thoroughly enjoyable

Once I started I couldn't stop and had to listen to it in one session. The military terminology was well done and I am looking forward to the second book.

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