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The Second Ship

By: Richard Phillips
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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Summary

In 1948, an alien starship crash-landed in the New Mexico desert and brought with it the key to mankind’s future. Code-named the Rho Project, the landing was shrouded in secrecy, and only the highest-ranking US government and military personnel knew it existed. Until now.

The US president is preparing to unveil one of the nation’s greatest secrets when three students stumble across the wreckage of a second ship outside of Los Alamos. With a single touch, the alien technology the government has spent untold resources trying to unlock is uploaded into the minds of three teenagers — teenagers who now know the frightening truth about the Rho Project.The battle for humanity has begun.

©2012 Richard Phillips (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

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Boring and trite

Amazon have been pushing The Second Ship at me for a while based on my reading habits. Having just finished Hamilton's Void trilogy I thought I'd try a new author and relented to suggestion pressure. Within a few minutes I was regretting the use of my monthly credit.

This book really doesn't know what it wants to be. It's like Enid Blyton's Famous Five meets the X-Files, swinging between teen fiction and much darker conspiracy sci-fi. The three principal characters are irritating and two dimensional, and almost everyone else is either undeveloped, or worse, a transparent cliche. Suspicious, "you kids are up to no good", battleaxe teacher who tries to thwart them at every turn, anyone?

Science fiction needs to be believable, if not necessarily possible, but the polymathic knowledge of computing, physics, biology and chemistry shown by the three high-school students, not to mention the way they deftly outmaneuver the NSA, is simply not plausible. It stretches your belief too far, and because these devices underpin the entire book the whole thing fails to stand.

Initially I thought I'd mistakenly picked up a teen-fiction book, but the violence and sexual themes make it unsuitable for younger readers.

This book is dull and trite, and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone; teens, conspiracy lovers or hard sci-fi fans. I'm not sure if it's aimed at any of these markets, but if it is, it fails. I found it a real effort to finish, and I won't be buying the sequels because I just don't care what happens to these characters.

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I want to believe

good stuff - wanted to stay in the car to carry on listening _always a good sign

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Good Read.. See a movie on the way.

Great read. looking forward to the next Twp books. Did not loose pace. kept your interest. Expect a movie to be made from the story.

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I have no clue

If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

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So far this book is crap. I haven't heard a word of it yet. The time I've spent on it so far has gone into converting it to a format I can use on my Android phone. Maybe it will turn out fine, but on the outset I'm just annoyed with it.

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Very engaging audiobook series

I've now listened to all three in the Rho Agenda series and found them to be very very good in audio format and excellently narrated. Good storylines and well paced if some are a little predictable at times but I found this added to the experience and great character building too. Room for a continuance of the series - I hope so Mr Phillips...

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Enjoyable

An enjoyable listen, story keeps you interested and the narration was good. Liked it enough to carry on with the second book

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Turned out to be quite a good sci-fi mix..

A good mix of alien ships, a trio of teen kids (and their "Brady Bunch" families in tow) political conspiracy, mystery of origin, a dash of psychopathic personalities, and just good ole sci-fi. All rolled into one. Despite the focus on the "goody two shoes, slightly irritating teenagers," I actually enjoyed it, as their parts were folded in pretty well within the story.

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The second ship

A great plot and storyline, and for a science fiction story some of the characters were almost believable. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and I intend listening to the next in the series.

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Something a little different

Not my usual scif-fi, but very enjoyable. So much so, I am already on Book 2. Certainly worth a credit.

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Interesting story , and a good performance

I bought the rest of the series, it had me wanting to keep listening . Though you must out the exact number of words in the mobile app

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