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Embers of War
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Greg Tremblay, Soneela Nankani, Natasha Soudek
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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Publisher's Summary
From BSFA award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the first in a new epic sci-fi trilogy exploring the legacies of war.
The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are sent on a rescue mission.
Meanwhile, light years away, intelligence officer Ashton Childe is tasked with locating the poet, Ona Sudak, who was aboard the missing spaceship. What Childe doesn't know is that Sudak is not the person she appears to be. A straightforward rescue turns into something far more dangerous, as Trouble Dog, Konstanz, and Childe find themselves at the center of a conflict that could engulf the entire galaxy. If she is to save her crew, Trouble Dog is going to have to remember how to fight ...
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- Hilmi S Alkindy
- 09-20-20
Narrator has an annoying cadence
Narrator has an annoying cadence and emphasis words in an offbeat way that confuses the brain. it's as if she is trying to read the story like a rhyme and is forcing rythme into her reading. couldn't continue listening
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-23-20
plot holes large enough to fly a 747 through.
it feels like the author want even trying. I finished it. don't know why.... wouldn't recommend
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- zngugrnpure
- 12-30-20
One And Done
This book (and its sequels) has issues that have nothing to do with the narrator. (That’s the chief complaint you see in the lower star reviews but I thought the narrators were fine.)
First, I will say that Powell has some interesting ideas and the payoff at the end was a nice wrap-up of various story lines. If you get this book, stop there. The open threads left are not worth the slog of the two sequels, where the issues of the first book become worse.
Now, the issues. The biggest issue is the characters. Powell can’t write a positive male character to save his life. In fact, arguably the only positive male character is positive because (spoiler) he dies before negative traits can be written for him. The males are cowardly, selfish, contemptible, or sometimes downright pathetic. All of them are this way. In the sequels, this pattern is worse!
The female characters are better, but not exactly inspiring or likeable. Too often Powell writes emotional arcs for these characters without laying a foundation for it and so the payoffs ring hollow. Again, this gets worse with each book and is especially bad by Light of Impossible Stars. The pacing and plot for Cordelia Pa is so bad I didn’t want to finish the book.
The only good characters are Nod, the Druf engineer and the Troubledog, the ship. And Powell overdoes their bits. They talk about The World Tree and “canine DNA makes me loyal to the pack” EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Please stop assuming your reader is an idiot, Gareth, we remember.
Powell seems to forget choices he made from one book to the next and he retcons or changes motivations and ideas. I’m sure he would say he just hadn’t fully revealed the truth but instead it feels like he just changed tack midway.
These books get mentioned with Ian Banks’ Culture because they’re space opera but they are the same genre in only the barest technical sense of the word. It is a superficial similarity. None of the substance or depth of Banks is present in these novels. Again, some cool ideas (hybrid dog-human controlled spaceships ARE cool, even if he reminds us every time, and the “twist” ending and the related ideas feel fresh) but in the end the characters and the poor pacing ruin it. I have 2 hours left in Light Of Impossible Stars and I just want it to be over.
Read the first one and pretend there are no more. The quality drops sharply with each new book.
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- Bryant and Amber
- 10-11-20
Decent story - no wow factor
it wasn't until Chapter 23 where the story began to come together in such a way to help you understand what was actually going on. until then, the book read as a bunch of disjointed stories all reaching, and stalling, for something. the later chapters read well, and finally picked up a beat, which is a plus.
I'd have to read the sequel (if there is one) before I completely write this story off. Had the potential to be so much better.
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- Daryl S
- 01-16-21
Narrator inflections stopped me
I could not listen beyond a few minutes simply because of the narrator's upward inflection at the end of each sentence. I have no idea what the story line is, sorry.
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- Deanne Morgan
- 08-14-18
Character Study, Not a Sci Fi Novel
This book is not a sci fi novel but instead a character study. There are moments of action interspersed between long, long descriptions about how miserable each person/AI/alien feels.The characters are all insecure, depressed, experiencing existential crises, and suffering from depression, guilt/shame, and PTSD - including the AI and the alien. All are consumed with themselves; they don't work and play well together. None of the characters were sympathetic; I hoped they'd all die just so the misery would end. The book was boring.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-17-21
Huh. Book is narrated by Amazon Alexa... Neat!
Seriously though... One of the narrators is the most annoying narrator I've come across. Check it out!
As for the story... The parts I remember seem alright, I guess. It's just really hard to follow along after a while because every time the Amazon Alexa starts narrating I involuntary stop paying attention XD
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- Eric Sanford
- 11-17-21
Narrator is unlistenable.
The narrator, as at least one other reviewer put it best, sounds exactly like Amazon Alexa. She reads as if she were computer generated- I'm not actually sure that she isn't.
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- Julian
- 11-07-21
Only made it 30 seconds into chapter 3...
The first female narrator (comes in just after the intro) is agony to listen to. Every sentence is read way slower than people talk, and ends in a long breathy dissipation, E.g., ending a sentence like thiiiissss, and then ending the next sentence the same waaaayyyyy. The second time she narrated (about chapter 3), I made it about 15 seconds. I may try to find an ebook or print version of this, as the story might be interesting. I can't rate the story as I'm not going to listen any further. The one narrator ruins the entire listening experience.
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- Robert H Casko
- 10-21-21
the breathy seductive reader was a good choice
Continuing a search for Scifi where the author has not given in to the puerile and sophomoric demands of the industry to shoehorn sexy-time and anti-Christian morality into their worlds.
I thought it strange that a scifi would choose as it's reading performer a woman who seems trained to make everything sound like a soap opera love scene.
It didn't take long past the first chapter for the main character to joyously describe why she had accepted becoming a pederast. (oh, he is 18,but he is described as very adolescent, which was the part that attracted her).
So I guess the reader was a conscious decision.
this author seems to love to push pederasty. which, unfortunately, is par for the course in modern scifi.
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- Iron Duke
- 03-22-19
Awful
Just bad. Terrible characterisation, daft dialogue terrible narration. Very little sci. Reads like a bad YA novel.
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- F. Adomeit
- 09-15-18
Slow and not very original character piece
The story tries to show all the different characters and their perspectives, but none of them are very interesting or original. There is barely any story around the characters and instead of progressing the story it often goes into the characters thoughts and histories for ages before returning to the current moment. It even sometime reiterates the not very interesting situation from different perspectives just so we definitely know how every character in the scene felt about it. This seems to be a central problem where the book just keeps explaining things instead of showing it organically through the story. Here have the "History of the House of Reclamation", let me just explain these space suits, oh aren't these weird planet formations mysterious? All of these things could have been interesting if they had been part of a good story, but it is not.
It gets very exhausting and didn't hold my attention on a train ride where I had absolutely nothing better to do than to listen to the story.
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- Len
- 03-07-19
Excellent story let down by narration
Super imagination and excellent story. However the narration was across the board poor with the overwhelming sound of breathless sadness across everything becoming boring and keeping the listener from becoming as engaged as it could have been.
Will however get second book on strength of the story
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- Joe at the shed
- 10-24-18
Nice concept but lacked substance in the delivery
I found this audio book difficult to finish, starting it fine... The introduction and character generation were sound with believable back storeys.
However as the story developed I found the choices the characters made less believable and even jarred with what was written (although in an audio book it's sometimes difficult to tell how progress has been made) in the previous page. This seemed to continue right through the book, examples include the captain/admiral who appeared later in the book, only having one constant setting, rage. While it might be believable that admirals might get in a rage, someone who has extensive military experience will be able control their own emotions better.
The ending also seemed rushed, and in my opinion to easy for the hero to win out to victory from an unlikely position, also giving them to much power without understanding the costs or risks associated.
To summarise... Only buy this if you are desperate for a fill in between better quality books
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- Sarah
- 07-01-18
multiple narrators are great, in enjoyable story
This takes the familiar trope of dispirit rogue starship crew who have different agendas and some of who are not even on the same side and does something new and interesting with the idea. This time it's a first responder rescue ship. This really makes it stand out as abit different and makes for a very engaging tale. It helps a great deal that the ship itself is a well rounded and entertaining character. what really makes this an engaging audio book is that the tale is told by several different narrators each playing different crew mates as each chapter is 1st person from a individual characters point of view. This really really works and draws you into the tale. Highly recommended listening!
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- roguetrooper
- 06-07-22
I have repeatedly been amazed by this book
I have repeatedly been amazed by this book it has a depth of characters and plots that melted into a storyline that is well narrated and came alive as it developed
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- Chuck Sa
- 06-04-22
Great story largely good performance
The story is interesting and elaborate. One of the 5 narrators has pronunciation I find mildly irritating but who knows what a space captain several millennia in the future sounds like. The other narrators make a wholly positive contribution. This is a really enjoyable story not a physics lecture.
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- mrs S
- 05-24-22
A very involved story with good conclusion
It took a while to get involved as the different characters had a chapter to themselves and were read by different actors, but it was worth it. Great imagination and plot building make this a wonderful story. I would listen to it again and recommend it to any science fiction enthusiast.
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- Christie
- 03-22-22
Truly Awful
Truly awful narration. I just couldn't bear to listen to more than a few minutes
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- Anonymous User
- 01-07-22
enjoyed it
really li kked this book some interesting ideas good characters and ships with personalitys and avatars
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- Tamara Szep
- 05-24-22
Good listen
I liked the story and learning about the ship and how it functioned. Good story line and looking forward to the next one.
Found the start a bit confusing as it comes in quite hot but the story does come to light as it goes on (as stories should).
I think it’s worth a 5 star rating as it’s an engaging read.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-30-21
Great story great narration
I listened to the narration at 1.5x speed and none of the Narrators share my accent of speaking English, and yet I found the narration was just fine.
If listeners cannot understand the Narrators at 1x they probably need their ears checked!
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- Leigh
- 10-25-21
Terrible narration, good story.
Some of these readers have obviously been told to slow down before. Unfortunately, they seem incapable of doing so. Instead, they still spit each sentence out in an almost incomprehensible jumble, but draw the last word of every sentence out, like a tape recorder with the batteries going flat. It's very distracting, and means that slowing down the playback speed makes it sound worse.
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- SonOfHenry
- 03-04-21
Good story, narration a bit of a mixed bag
Really liked the story, good twists and backatory... characters fleshed out, maybe too many and the story too pacey to really get to like them though... suspect that'll come with later books...
Narration though was a bit of a mixed bag... female narrators sounded too much alike, made listening confusing at times...
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- Steven
- 03-06-19
a great story, masterfully told
An enjoyable sci fi romp with delicious teasing of the story to come. Relatable characters and good descriptions of technology at a good placement in the hard/soft sci fi intersection.