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This Series Continues to be Great

Reviewed: 03-10-23

I just love this series. The love the characters have for each other, the believable motivations for characters, the well written combat, the continued mystery in the story, and the development of the characters. Also, the epilogue, what it sets up. Reminds me of previous stories and I'm on an enjoyable nostalgic trip!

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Good with poor narration

Reviewed: 06-18-22

The narrator was not so bad it ruined the story. I still found it enjoyable and recommend.

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Great Ending - 5 Stars with small flaws

Reviewed: 12-09-21

Overall, this is a very satisfactory conclusion to the story. The grumblings which exist within these reviews show how hard endings can be! While everyone may not love the exact manner of this ending, it is fitting and does bring the story to a successful close. Any comparisons to GoT are crack-headed.

SPOILERS BELOW:

Here are some more detailed thoughts:

-Regarding the destruction of the station & ring gates. I think this is a good conclusion, and it does leave the reader/listened with some crazy things to contemplate. Imagine being on a world which was not given advance notice - what would you think when you saw the ring turn off and tumble into your system's star?!?! Also, how crazy of an advancement for human kind. To literally jump across the Milky Way from 1 to 1,300 solar systems, only to be cut off from each other and grow independently from there. What would it be like if you were only traveling to a system during that moment, with your family back in another? What will it be like when future human civilizations eventually develop the technology to connect once more (by a similar means or completely different)?

-My only complaint regarding the ending was that I saw it coming from a long ways off. Had even considered the idea in previous books, but not too long into this book, I was certain it was how it would end.

-One small thing I always dislike is when characters/factions are bested due to their own stupidity. The way Laconia controlled the ring space and empire since the fall of Medina Station and the Typhoon was always dumb. The authors had to purposefully make Laconia less imposing in order to allow the underground to exist. For example: Laconia could have parked a destroyer in the ring space at all times. Yes, there was uncertainty regarding if it would get eaten, but this is a military vessel. The crew must be willing to risk their life. And to prevent absolute destruction of morale, the destroyer in the ring space could rotate. Serving in the ring space would just be one particular "tour" a member of the Laconian military would have for a predetermined duration. Furthermore, Laconian destroyers could be parked just outside several different gates. That way if there was a problem, the central ship calls to those, they transit into the ring space, and then they go through another ring to where the trouble this. This is not advanced military strategy. It is easily conceived. But Laconia was prevented from operating this way because how would the Rocinante ever escape chase from one vessel? As the crew even thought in this book, "you can't outrun the speed of light". But Laconia never used coordination between multiple ships the chokepoint of the ring space. The whole idea is that escape should have been impossible, because if Laconia wanted to, it still could have controlled the ring space.

-Screw the TV show for killing Alex!!! One of the most emotional scenes of the series is when Alex decides to go be with his family instead of go to Sol system. And we will never have that on the screen because they had to kill Alex off. I don't know the exact nature of his wrongdoing, but I would have preferred some sort of alternative consequence that would have kept him on the show.

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Great and Unique Post-Apocalyptic Installment

Reviewed: 11-30-20

Superior over zombies and other Post-Apocalyptic sub-types by its chilling possibility.

Hope it continues with a third soon!

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Best Bourne yet?

Reviewed: 03-31-20

This audiobook is awesome for several reasons:
1. Multiple narrators really fits the style
2. Enjoyable, suspenseful plot
3. The scenario is one of the few severe, post-apocalyptic futures which is sincerely believable, and that really causes you to contemplate the story.

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The Worst Commune Book by FAR

Reviewed: 07-15-19

I have thoroughly enjoyed this series, and I have listened to it via Audiobook.

My ranking of the series from best to worst goes as follows:
2, 1, 3, 4

Yet 4 was the only book I really didn’t like. The antagonist in it is simply 100% unbelievable in his decision making.

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There was one great, powerful part:
-the camping scenes with George, Lum, Rose, and Elizabeth. They were touching, sincere, and believable. Then Lum being murdered and George telling Rose what to do while dying... that right there was one of the most powerful scenes of any audiobook I’ve listened to, and Joshua Gayou deserves praise for that!

The bad:
-This was the one book where the events which unfolded were simply not believable. I appreciate there was nuance and a change from the typical: that the big group didn’t just go mad Max and murder and plunder. Yet the way which Clay differed seemed unbelievable.

I get it, the execution of Willie Dingle was supposed to be the scene which changed Clay - preventing him from being ruthless like he previously was. But it’s execution simply wasn’t believable.

So when the conquest is first complete, and Jake and Gibbs and Amanda arrive on the scene. He gets told another car of people are down the road, and he says for Gibbs to get them over here or he starts shooting people - starting with Barbara. Then shortly afterwards Jake attacks him and knocks him unconscious, and he doesn’t retaliate against the group in ANY way? Their leader rebels and it’s just “if he shows up I’ll kill him????”

Out of “respect” and in an attempt to get in their good graces, he buys Amanda’s “we’re religious” strategy, letting them meet with ZERO supervision?? You could have one person posted outside the window and still be respectful. And then she asks for a SECOND meeting where she even admits it’s not about Bible study/worship but about “this is a big change” (Clay sending over half his forces away).

The group your occupying (and has already displayed rebellious tendencies) is meeting about how you’re sending over half your occupying troops away, and YOU'RE OKAY WITH IT BEING UNSUPERVISED?

That right there is just stupid. Unbelievable. And it made every consequent cheap.

Unfortunate... the series had been great prior.

Book 3 was a step down and concerned me a bit, but Book 4 was just really, really unbelievable the entire second half.

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Glad I didn’t spend money

Reviewed: 07-26-18

So I bought this with a $5 coupon. Good. If I spent $5 on this I’d be upset.

Enjoyed the series, but I’m pretty flummoxed with this. Short, erratic, and takes the story to a weird place.

What about what he found at the CDC in Ghost Run??

It would have been much better to write a short story between hourglass and ghost run. Not this jump into the future where everything we are given is half baked.

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