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Home World
- Undying Mercenaries, Book 6
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- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast empire that spanned the Milky Way.
When the Earth is invaded by a rival empire, James McGill's legion must defend the Home World. The top brass has complex plans, but none of that matters much to McGill, who chooses his own unique path. Traveling to star systems no human has ever visited, he searches for a technological edge to beat the enemy before it's too late. Along the way he unleashes new terrors, triggering the biggest battles in human history.
Home World is the sixth book of the Undying Mercenaries Series, a novel of military science fiction by best-selling author B. V. Larson.
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- Don Gilbert
- 06-04-16
Obstinate to the Core
In “Home world,” James McGill is still as obstinate and stubbornly determined to do what he thinks is right no matter what anyone else has to say; and he now has rank, as in Adjunct. He seems to have become somewhat more mature and diplomatic given his new positon, but deep down he’s still the same old James McGill, and that’s what makes this series fun.
As the title suggests, the setting of the six book in the “Undying Mercenaries,” series is earth. It is under attack by the “Squids,” and their superior force seems destined to destroy the planet; but for better or worse earth has James McGill. To try and save mankind James will travel to the core of the Galactics universe to retrieve some high tech weaponry that could turn the tide of the war and piss off a lot of aliens.
His usual gang of mercenaries is present and accounted for along with Imperator Turov, and Claver of course. In my opinion this is the best of the series and listening to Mark Boyett play James McGill is the only way to enjoy it.
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- Ari
- 07-05-18
I'm done
I enjoyed this series until now. The writing was never amazing, but it was good enough, but the sixth book was very disappointing. I'm done, I don't care what happens anymore, and obviously neither does the author. This is some of the laziest writing I've come across.
I suspect the rating of this book series has been gamed heavily by bots, as I can see no way any real person would give this 5 stars.
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- Jeanne I McCallie
- 06-22-19
Must be rated by bots
Yea I have the same complaint that many other people have. Good over all universe as far as concept with the Empire and how it works. But the stupid schemes that should not work hook up with lots of women who are always willing even knowing he is a pos "that part is believable lots of women seem to like guys that just use them as meat" save the day through blind luck rinse repeat is getting old. Let at least one of the main bad guys die and replace them with something new to progress the story or at least let them get kicked to the side. I have to agree with what someone else said these reviews just vaguely saying this book is awesome 5 star must be bots. I'm still going to get the rest of the books and just hope the author gets some new inspiration like he had when he started the series. And and continue to ignore the lame sexual crap.
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- J. Rawlins
- 04-28-19
OH come on!!
Spoiler alert: James McGill is an idiot. Multiple opportunities to come clean about the galactic key and his past truth stretching blindly ignored. Allowing Graves to shoot himself and Drusus to be arrested to protect and return control of everything (and the Galactic key) back over to Turov the biggest traitor to the human race makes his dumb ass just as guilty as her and Claver. I had to quite listening! I just couldn't take it any more. I stopped right there. Now I'm listening to Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi. I highly recommend it. I've read multiple series by B.V. Larson and have liked most of them and will continue but this was just too much.
As always Mark Boyett was awesome!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-30-18
Repetitive schemes aren't surprises after 5 books
I liked this series until the repetitive nonsense of Turov&Claverjustneverends and they never have consequencesfortheiractions.
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- Nate
- 08-13-18
Benedict Arnold would be proud...
*Spoilers*
So Turov gets caught trying to sell out Earth to the Squids and pays for it with her life, permanently. Great, now we can finally move on.... wait hold up! Turov gets revived??!! Then in a crazy turn of events Graves must choose the next leader of all of Earth's Forces!! Who will Graves choose? Perhaps a competent commander from another battle hardened legion? Wait... why is Graves, a centurion, making this call at all? Why is he asking James his opinion on who he should choose? WHY ARE THEY PICKING TUROV WHO IS A KNOWN TRAITOR AND HAS TRIED TO SELL OUT EARTH WITH CLAIVER MULTIPLE TIMES BY NOW?!?!?!?!?
That is literally akin to giving command of America's forces during the Revolutionary War to Benedict Arnold if George Washington had been killed. It makes no sense.
Well I'm done. Books 1-3 were good, with enough interesting things happening and interesting characters to keep it going strong. Book 4 was alright. Book 5, I felt missed a huge opportunity to show case how a legion would fight without a revival machine. Book 6? Nope. End of the series for me, sad, but it has to be done. This decision is one of the worst decisions ever written and it killed the series for me. (Apparently everyone has lost their minds, perhaps it's a side effect from the constant revives?)
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- Kevin Bidwell
- 02-21-19
Storyline has gotten a bit too thin
At this point in the series, the storyline feels very forced, and often contrived. Many of the characters have repeated the same lines so many times, they feel like catch phrases. Don't think I'll be able to bring myself to listen to the next book.
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- bookie
- 12-18-18
Repeat, repeat, repeat will anything new happen.
It gets to a point where you start hating all the characters. Just shorten the books if you can't think of any new plots.....
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- thebanik
- 08-21-18
Stupid story which is simply a letdown
Stupid story where the hero keeps letting the biggest schemer and traitors alive for his own childish schemes and then also act morally high all along
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- patrick
- 04-30-18
Mark Boyett is the voice of B V Larson's books
Mark Boyett is the voice and soul of the books
But B V Larson has a major shortcoming, he refuses to take risks.
Each of first 4 books Great. They are campy and reminds me of old school sci fi. But he won't allow a main character to stay "permmed" So each book is Mcgill does something against orders, military action sequence, Carlos and/or Keevee dies, he gets blamed for the ensuring disaster, he BSes his way out, he gets laid and somehow saves the day.
Rinse and repeat. For newer listeners, I wouldn't go past Death World. The series really hits it stride. No main characters die, he and Tourov get in some sort of bitch fight. When this book said Tourov was permmed I was happy. It would allow the plot to advance. But nope. she makes a return. At this point, the plot sounds like a broken record.
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- S. Morris
- 05-28-16
More McGill, More Mayhem!
As a fan of B V Larson's work and the Undying Mercenaries series in particular, it was with great anticipation that I waited for book 6 of this saga to be released. I had stumbled across this fantastic series late and so was able to consume the first 5 books in rapid succession and having done so found myself at a loose end. In the interim I gorged myself on the entire Star Force saga from the same author in the hope that the prolific Larson would write the next Undying Mercenaries book but found that even after reading all the Star Force books as well as a couple of others Larson has penned that I was still eagerly awaiting the next in this series of stories. So, when I received the notification from Audible telling me of the new release that was entitled Home World and was book 6 in the Undying Mercenaries series, I immediately made my pre-order.
I read the book in less than 4 days not able to put it down I had been so long without my needed fix and in short I can say this next chapter in this saga was indeed worth the wait and gives us everything we have come to expect and love from the James McGill character which the book centres around as we follow his campaigns and adventures that are undertaken in the very unique and rather unorthodox manner we have all come to enjoy so much.
The publishers synopsis outlines the key story well enough so I shall not go into unnecessary details about the plot other than to state how much I enjoyed it. Larson has managed to maintain the consistency and quality we have come to expect from his writing and Home World is no exception. Larson always manages to pace his stories so well and keeps everything moving and interesting and is probably the sci-fi author that could well best have his books converted to the big screen as he never dwells on heavy tech or complex plot narratives. What I have always liked about Larson is just how accessible his science fiction stories are. he write straight forward stories that the reader does not need a physics degree to fathom as do some other authors of what I refer to as "heavy sci-fi" often do or get bogged down in overly philosophical content. Larson writes direct, understandable and entertaining science fiction and in the case of the Undying Mercenaries series also adds a degree of visceral and gritty elements which gives these stories a harsh edge at times. As with any series of books, I would strongly recommend that anyone reading this review that has not read all stories to this point in the saga that they should get the first book of this fantastic series, Steel World and get yourself off to a great start.
I really hope that the Undying Mercenaries saga runs for at least 12 books to at least match the sort of scale of the Star Force saga. My only minor gripe with the Star Force series was the very limited number of worlds explored considering the scope of the linked network. However, this series has a much larger range of worlds from which to make use of and especially now with the newest technological piece of equipment that allows FTL travel among the stars. Also, in this universe the key characters given their revival abilities are effectively immortal and so the author is not limited to either a normal human life span or the confines of stories that keep its characters out of mortal danger and so the very nature of the narrative can be that much more dynamic and dangerous.
Very pleasing to see the same narrator for this series, Mark Boyett, make a return. There's nothing worse than a different narrator being used within the same saga as it completely destroys continuity and so Boyett's return is very much welcome. This narrator has an excellent repertoire of voices and accents and remains very consistent managing to bring back to life all the key characters as we know them. One very minor point is that I seem to believe that the Keavy character was originally of Hispanic origin as I recall when first voiced several books ago but now seems to have an eastern European accent. Of course, I might be wrong on that count.
Overall the book is excellent but I did notice either a narrator issue on one or two words like saying "pursuing the report" rather than I suspect was actually "Perusing the report". More obvious was that in chapter 37 there was a clear continuity error from Larson. The Keavy character is hacked to death but less than five minutes later she wonders back now with just a broken ankle? I listened to this chapter again to verify this and indeed this was the case. Also, I was left scratching my head a little as to how the Claver character was revived so many times without any real explanation. Finally, in chapter 58 our hero, McGill, manages to get himself onto a distant world but the needed recharge to his suit required to get him back was not covered so I was left wondering how he did it. However, as critical an ear for detail as I have, none of the above minor points detracted from this enthralling story.
Finally, we are left with yet another situation of massive proportions looming on the horizon which could well cover the next few books in this series such is the potential scope of the possible threat and so, yet again, we the reader are left wanting more and having to wait an age. I will have to try and find another vast series of stories elsewhere now to tide me over until the next part of the Undying Mercenaries saga is written.
If you've red and enjoyed this series to date then getting Hone World is a "no brainer". Larson continues to excel with these books so I can only recommend this latest instalment whole heartedly.
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- Neil
- 08-25-19
Excellent
Another excellent instalment of this gripping series. As usual, this one doesn’t disappoint. Hungry for the next.
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- James
- 07-21-19
Outstanding!
I thought this was a fantastic story and well written book - thoroughly enjoyed it. Narration excellent
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-30-19
No one meaningful ever dies, just ends in a farce
So people die but there's the removal of all threat at this point it. The number of times the cards change is stupid anyone evil or good is never actually permed only meaningless side characters. At this point it removes all levels of threat. Are better left dead, they shouldn't perpetually be brought back.
the threat to earth is cool but there's too much convolution and other characters seem to remain static repeating action after action lacking evolution. It feels like the story lines petered out.
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- CJSILV
- 09-20-18
great book 📖
this is a great book the series has been brilliant if you like sci-fi you have to listen to all of the books
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- D.V.Williams
- 06-13-18
one of the best in the series
it twists and turns, being a bit less predictable than the others and not following quite the same format
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- Errol
- 11-17-17
Banging set of books
B. V. Laarson writes a great story with a great mix of humour and seriousness
Worth looking at the rest of his books too
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- david
- 11-17-17
good read
im still wel into this series. as long as you enjoy the general ideas of being regrown its all good
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- Tracy Smith
- 10-05-17
just great
the best one yet really drags you down into the moment McGill is me kind of hero
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- Mark1
- 09-28-17
Another good read and performed brilliantly
Another good read and performed and brought to life brilliantly by Mark. Roll on the next episode
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- Anonymous User
- 02-12-22
Wow amazing
I can’t say nothing bad about it what a great story And the narrator is really really good well
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- Anonymous User
- 09-16-21
Best undying mercenaries yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
loved it
James meeting eda
awesome narration and narrative 1 word awesome 1 of the greats
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- Ray Crawford
- 09-06-20
Great read!
As always, a great read. I can not wait to pick up. what a combination with Larson & Boyett.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-14-20
best one of the series so far.
loved the jokes in this one. story was very good. hope the rest will be as good
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- Aaron
- 01-05-20
Great ideas. Sloppy editing
I really wish for two things to improve this experience: better continuity of the details, and less explaining the same thing again and again as if the audience had not read the preceding books....
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- Dallas
- 06-06-19
60 chapters of glorious space opera!!!
loved but thought it was sad how everyone dies at the end, especially the thing about the other thing.
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- David
- 12-22-18
absolutely cringeworthy romance
the women are all caricatures, the protagonist is how a virgin would imagine a ladies man, and any sex scenes are utterly cringeworthy. The incel factor really ruins an otherwise fun military SciFi.