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Attack on Thebes
- Orion War Series, Book 5
- Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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The drums of war thunder across the stars.... The final negotiations between the Silstrand Alliance and the Scipian Empire are complete, and it's time for Tanis and Sera to part ways.
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- Robert
- 17-11-22
Average quality at best.
This review is written mostly from the point of view of a reader of the Rika’s Marauders series.
I’m certain that this novel is of average to high quality if taken solely as part of the Orion War’s series, which appears to be a very high concept, high-power setting with large amounts of space magic.
However unfortunately, the author chose to cross this setting over with the much lower powered and grittier setting of Rika’s Marauders, and does so by interweaving the novels, having an indelible impact on both series.
If you’re primarily a reader of Orion Wars, or do not mind being essentially required to read a book from what - to all intents and purposes - might as well be another setting in order to read a ‘complete’ omnibus, then I suspect this book ties up a lot of loose ends and explores a lot of plots.
If on the other hand you were reading a series about gritty space mercenaries in a galaxy gone to hell because humans keep fighting each other, the revelations in this book are deeply disappointing, as the central characters are simply better in every way, but are also deeply arrogant about their position and look down upon people who’ve had their lives blown apart as being ‘needlessly distrustful’ - this is somewhat made up for when said ‘poor tech’ civilisations turn out (inevitably) to be part of the larger war as pawns and the ‘transcend’ and ‘IFS’ fleets and characters actually suffer.
But the plot being introduced here is something totally out of place in Rika’s universe that not only utterly sidelines her conflict (which for half the book, looked like it might have been done in an appropriate fashion) but does so on a sadly ridiculous scale, with one ship taking the sustained fire of 35,000 other vessels.
Worse - the (newly, from our point of view) introduced main character goes from being rendered weak and hopeless to becoming a transcendent human-AI pairing. All the new humans are even more machine-human hybrids than the MECs, and do not regard this as abnormal - but of course, have vastly superior technology.
It’s not all bad, there are cool moments, and I’m hoping Rika book 5 can solve the problems of a vast superpower turning up to fix all the characters lives. If I were inclined to read Orion War’s (which I cannot afford to do) I may be more charitable, as there does seem to be an excellent series of space magic and AI/human interaction and bonding there.
But as one part of two (or more) books in which the cruel and hard effects of the grand high tech war which the Intrepid crew are part of, it fails - they almost seem to sail through without regard for the horror and suffering for the larger conflicts due to their ability to save anyone they care about, and the Godlike AI behind everything is a very selfish divinity indeed.
Finally, sadly the narrator appears to be poorly informed about basic pronunciation of elements in the Rika books, such as Kelly and Kelli having the same name, or the *Foe*hammer not having an r in the middle of it, Forehammer sounds like a method for perfecting your golf swing. Which is quite surprising, as she otherwise does such a good job of conveying Rika and the others I would think she is the same narrator - honestly, I’ve not checked as it doesn’t actually change the cringing.
Given that perhaps 4h of this book actually involve Rika, and the others setup a lot of background that… well, I hope it’s integration is handled better, I’d honestly say you’re better skipping this, even if Rika does conduct what would be at least half a books worth of plot-critical combat actions off-screen if you do so.
Would I spend a credit on this?
No, absolutely not. Wait for the Orion War’s to come out in omnibus.
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- bros
- 29-04-22
Enjoyed!
Felt I had no choice but to ingest this book as it was recommended by the author before continuing with "Rika's Marauders: The Complete Series", which is great by the way.
I'm glad I did! It certainly helped bridge the gap of knowledge presented in "Rika's Marauders:..." & it allowed a glimps into M.D. Cooper's entire Aeon 14 saga. Hard Science Fiction written with a solid understanding of physics, characters that draw you in, & a story line that keeps you guessing. Definitely worth the credits.
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- BritMick
- 17-02-22
Tanis finds more trouble
why is trouble always finds Tanis, no matter where she goes trouble finds here. But she is not the only one. her three daughters are also growing up and finding their own way of finding Trouble. A couple of old friends turn up with news as well. There is a lot going on in this book.
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- Michael Coe
- 01-07-21
Not my cup of tea
This seems to be a space odyssey that reads like a story born from the combination of “Real house wives” meet “sex in the city” but on a galactic scale. Since I did not like either show, this book was not for me. The Author also assumes the reader has full knowledge of the dozens of previous books and story offshoots
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-02-19
Didn’t expect anything less
Book was amazing as always. Tanis is back in an extraordinary fashion. Definitely does not disappoint.
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- Ken Hunsaker
- 17-08-18
Awesome story as always
Story is a seat grabber the whole way though. Upset about some of the old characters being killed off but look forward to to see where MD Cooper and his band of writers take us next.
Thanks as always for taking my imagination to new places.