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  • By: Scott Baron
  • Narrated by: Gary Bennett
  • Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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The Dragon Mage Series: Books 1-3

By: Scott Baron
Narrated by: Gary Bennett
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Summary

Charlie had all the luck. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the good kind.

Sucked through a wormhole, Charlie's spaceship crash landed on a distant world. Yet somehow, he survived. But survival was about to get a lot harder, as he found himself not just stranded on a new planet, but in another galaxy entirely. One ruled not by the laws of technology, but by magic. A realm of space pirates, deadly assassins, alien gladiators, and even dragons. For the spaceman from Earth, it was enough to make his head spin.

And that was only the beginning....

Welcome to the Charlieverse.

Contains the first three audiobooks of the Dragon Mage series:
1. Bad Luck Charlie
2. Space Pirate Charlie
3. Dragon King Charlie

©2019 Scott Baron (P)2019 Scott Baron

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Intriguing and well executed space fantasy series

I had my eye on Bad Luck Charlie for a while but was not sure completely sold on the concept but when I was given a collection of the first three books how could I resist? Three books in one with each of them developing in ways I did not predict and kept me interested and engaged throughout. The universe and cultures created were interesting and really enjoyed the characters and Charlies development from a reluctant engineer on a space ship to what he has and still becoming. Looking forward to listening to more.

The Dragon Mage Series has a new fan and will add the remaining stories to my rotation of ongoing series’.

I was given a free copy at my request and have voluntarily left this review which has not been influenced by the party that provided it.

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A wonderful and strange find.

Going into this book I really wasn't sure what to expect, but I was really delighted by the first three.

Book one starts in a style that very much reminded me of Arthur C Clarke and Edgar Rice Burroughs and other classic sci-fi. It took a base principal and ran with it, the characters involved very much feel like explorers and rather than running headlong into fantasy and a fantasy vibe story, with magic and dragons it stays firmly in the exploratory sci-fi feel. As the story progresses and more fantastical elements become involved the overall feel of the story becomes more fantasy, but as the fantasy elements also hold for space faring civilisations (depending on magic rather than then), there is a feel of wonder as the author explores how elements may be different.

Overall, a fun trilogy and I look forward to continuing on with the series.

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Excellent

Excellent set of book, really well written and performed, really liked the way old earth legends were incorporated, very clever

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Enjoyable sci-fantasy adventure

To make this an unbiased review I was given a review of this book.

I found the narration to flow easy and be enjoyable, however it was hard to know who was talking at so points. This only happened infrequently.

The overall story across the three books is intriguing and left me wanting to carry on to know what happened next whenever it came time to stop listening.

Overall I would recommend this book and I will likely be carrying on with the series.

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A wonderful mashup of sci-fi and saucery.

I 100% recommend this story to all who love sci-fi and fantasy.
wonderfully narrated.

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Easy listen and funny

Really good listen, funny, detailed and full of surprises. I would highly reccomend this series

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Brilliant

I received this book for free, which was a stroke of luck as I was already interested in the series. I thoroughly enjoyed these three books. The author has done a brilliant job with world building and also carefully explains the multiple races and how the magic system works. I was really surprised at how well the science fiction and fantasy genres have merged together.

I am definitely going to be picking up the rest of these books at some stage and am excited to see what is next for Charlie. One thing that is for certain with these books is that nothing is predictable. They are a wild ride thats for sure.

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  • Eric & Nina
  • 24-03-23

Enjoyed it! It was a fun listen,

Enjoyed it! It was a fun listen, I'll continue listening to the rest of the series

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  • 20-03-23

It starts out good…

What is up with Charlie? He was a soldier but when his friends are captured he gives away all advantages by revealing his self, trash talking and not shooting. When he is captured and after his shipmates are killed by the slavers, he still talks to his captors in this stupidly open way. And he keeps going on and on how it can’t be science. It’s like no matter what he sees or hears he notes nothing. And all of his skills as a past soldier vanish. Scientists are supposed to observe but Charlie is mostly assuming instead. It’s annoying because the story at the start was quite good. And as the story progresses the clever, problem solving Charlie vanishes and becomes an childish idiot. It’s irritating. I’m listening for a few more minutes in the hopes the story will turn around.

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  • Sallamae Johnson
  • 25-05-23

depressing and fun

You'd think a book can't be both depressing and fun, but it's all about where in the book you read. The first book is dead boring from the beginning until most of the way through. It then picks up a bit of fun. the next two books are less boring, but the series is largely modeled the same way as the Clockwork Chimera, which it intersects. It is all, everyone dies, everyone loses, and everyone is happy in vain; then the story gradually becomes less and less depressing until it ends happily. The problem is the story avoids being predictable by being too obviously tweaked to fit this pattern for a long, long setup, ending with success. In other words, it seems like a set of books, but the story is more like each series is it's own single book, released in volumes of chapters that are completely individually unsatisfying, unless you read the last one. Much of the imagination is great and this writer is much better than a few fantasy and science fiction writers I have read who sacrifice reason for short bouts of drama more extremely.

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  • Daniela Gonzalez
  • 14-05-23

Enjoyable ride

I really enjoyed this story and can’t wait to hear the rest of the books. I want to know what Charlie and company will be doing in their next misadventures

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  • Blake Dills
  • 14-05-23

Decent story, lackluster narration

The story was well thought out and enjoyable. Magic, dragons, gladiator bouts, starships, starship crashing, space pirates, time travel, it has a bit of everything. However the audio was a bit mechanical sounding and it felt like the narrator was trying to tell a bedtime story and would not raise his voice in emotion for fear of exciting kids so they wouldn’t sleep. Okay to listen to at home, but don’t expect this to keep you awake if driving. With the sheer amount of exciting themes, overall the book felt a bit boring, mostly due to the narration.

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  • Josiah
  • 05-05-23

Interesting Start to a Curious Concept

While it has been noted by many other readers, the first book does take some time to introduce and develop the main concept of the series: there is another galaxy that runs on magic versus technology and the main character has to deal with that issue, being a pragmatic engineer. While it might not be executed in a an extremely efficient manner at first and the concept is drip-fed to the reader, it does begin to pick up in books two and three.

Concepts and characters are well thought out and developed and the world building (or galaxy-building in this case) is very interesting to imagine a realm run by magic versus technology. Scott does a good job of building tension and intrigue once the characters have been established and there’s more to the story than first meets the eye, but it can take a bit for the story to hook readers.

I look forward to the next trilogy and eventually see where this series goes as there’s some interesting threads being pulled here.

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  • george
  • 03-05-23

Author insulted my beliefs

Would have kept on with the series but can’t support someone that insults the reader if they are not woke.
It was just a couple of times but that was enough.Amazon would not let me return the book.
Story and magic system we’re good.To many saves at the last minute.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 25-04-23

I liked it.

The story started out strong and kept my interest. I enjoyed it. Good characters and a fun and interesting story line.

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  • Daniel A Decekr
  • 24-04-23

Tedious beyond Belief

Extremely unimaginative and repetitive to fill up space. Lots of violence and cruelty used as a poor substitute for thoughtful writing.

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  • Takashi
  • 20-03-23

Enjoyed the story better read than listened to.

The story feels new though maybe it’s because of the narrator gaps happen. It could be me, the action scenes are monotone. So while your mind raced as well as your heart. The story is given to you as if someone was telling you the weather as you stand outside.

I have books 4-6 which I’m currently listening to. Same monotonous delivery. Pity really because like I said the story is great. The idea of both magic and science existing together is awesome. Plus the aliens aren’t immediately humanoid. Was slightly confused once the main protagonist had then since the names were so plain sue. Tried to mentally explain that away because of the translator and spells. Which was dashed further in because the language is eventually learned.

Any who author Scott Baron please keep writing and creating. I will sadly have to move to solid media after this experience.