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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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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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- Iron Duke
- 22-03-19
Awful
Just bad. Terrible characterisation, daft dialogue terrible narration. Very little sci. Reads like a bad YA novel.
3 people found this helpful
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- F. Adomeit
- 15-09-18
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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- Elmamaria
- 03-04-19
Listened to twice
A wonderful cast of characters and moral dilemmas. Had to listen to it again before embarking on book 2 - fleet of knives. Loved the vast scope of it and can’t wait to see how the de facto peace keepers of the multiplicity stop themselves from becoming tyrants and where Trouble Dog and her crew end up.
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- Len
- 07-03-19
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
- 24-10-18
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
- 01-07-18
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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- Drac
- 02-05-23
Voiced by AI?
The narration was patchy and at least two of the characters sounded like an AI narration tool. This would be a great twist for a Sci-Fi space opera however the voices were rather monotone and made the story rather hard work in sections.
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- Mark Quinn
- 27-03-23
Patchy
The performances warmed up a bit across the story and I like the idea of a multi voice format but generally the actual voice actors took away from rather than added to the story which was solid. I don’t think I’ll bother with the next books in tbe series however - I generally like something with a bit more depth
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- Iain
- 04-03-23
interesting story, wildly varied narration
I quite liked the story. it's not the best ever, but it was enjoyable, and an interesting universe. that being said the quality of the performers varies so wildly. one of the human voices sounds more robotic and monotone than the ship's AI, which was so off-putting I could barely listen to that character
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- Chris Morgan
- 17-02-23
the ship talking narration is awful
hard to get over the first chapter narration, once you've unlocked that achievement the other narration is better. however that's when you get into the slow story.
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- Hilmi S Alkindy
- 20-09-20
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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- Deanne Morgan
- 14-08-18
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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- Amazon Customer
- 23-09-20
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
- 30-12-20
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
- 11-10-20
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
- 16-01-21
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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- Julian
- 07-11-21
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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- Anonymous User
- 17-09-21
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
- 17-11-21
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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- Robert H Casko
- 21-10-21
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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