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  • By: Craig Robertson
  • Narrated by: Scott Aiello
  • Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (271 ratings)

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Time Wars Last Forever: Publisher's Pack

By: Craig Robertson
Narrated by: Scott Aiello
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Summary

Contains books one and two of Time Wars Last Forever.

Ryan Time (book 1) 

There is a time for everything under the heavens. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to love and a time to hate. But when it's a time war you're looking at, it's Ryan Time. 

Jon Ryan is called back two billion years to save the Earth from an unprecedented threat. An alien clan is stealing time. It uses that time energy to power its quest to amass even more time. As the very real possibility of never having existed closes in on humanity, Jon must rally his ragtag forces to do the impossible, yet again. But how can you defeat an enemy who can cause you to never have lived? 

Lost Time (book 2)

The Earth - all of her history, all of her life - never existed. The Clan, the evil time thieves of the universe, sucked the time energy out of our home world. That which never was can never again be. Obviously. Well unless, of course, there's a Jon Ryan out there! 

Jon and Sapale must work with their new crew, two human academics spared humankind's foul fate, along with their captured alien time ship. But is their mission doomed to fail even before it starts? How can they resurrect something that never was? They don't even know how it can be done, or if it can be done.

©2019 Craig Robertson (P)2020 Podium Audio

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John Ryan has been immaculated

Oh dear, the beloved John Ryan may have defeated Gods, the Adamant, and saved mankind many times; however, even he has been immaculated by the current intersectionality woke virus. I have no idea why the writer made his most famous character hero an idiot to strong, brave females in this book. Why not write strong, heroic female characters rather than undermining and ridiculing an established male hero? I’ve listened to every John Ryan trilogy; however, this is the last one. RIP John killed

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truly terrible

it feels like this was written by an American, teenage, boy. Truly terrible. Avoid even if it's free!

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Great book 📖

Great book love the story and the book narration love the book series I highly recommend listening to all of them ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍

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You're not supposed to like him.

Clever & fun, comedic sci-fi. Brought to life vividly by Scott Aiello.

Early on in the book it becomes clear that our pompous protagonist is an object of fun, rather than someone the author expects us to like. This isnt immediately obvious at the very start, and other reviewers appear to have lost patience before realising this is the case - and deprived themselves of some actually pretty exceptionally fun sci-fi.

Certainly one of the better 'included' titles I've found

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exceeded my expectations

i expected the Ryan universe to be sucked dry by the previous books, but i got pleasantly surprised by how a few new characters were introduced in a refreshing way

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movie needed

movie please for all books related to this saga. Ryan Reynolds would fit in this role like a custom glove :)

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scince sci fi at its best 👌

much mote my thing than the gods back on form for what i like in the books scince scifi

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not so good, a bit stretched and very same...

performance good, topic had no ups and downs. very monotone in writing so performance matched the pattern.

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Great

The performance is a little bit repetitive from previous books. Other than that the book is great. Probably the best so far.

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I hope you like snark because the author sure does

For what it's worth I finished this book, so it can't be truly awful. I also think the narrator did an excellent job.

Beyond that this book was not good. It's been said elsewhere that the main character is not supposed to be likeable, and he isn't. Neither is anyone else. But this isn't in an interesting antihero kind of way, it's in a juvenile, deeply irritating, supremely tiresome way. If you met any of these people in real life you would walk far far away from them.

Constant playground jibes are used as a substitute for actual humorous dialogue, or indeed dialogue of any kind, so if you think the "I know you are but what am I?" level of banter is pretty darn funny then this is the book for you. I've never heard the word "snarked" used as a verb so much in a book before, and hope never to again.


Clearly many people enjoy this book, but I would recommend checking the sample before giving this ear time as it was a painful listen which ended on a cliffhanger that I have zero intention of ever following up on.

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  • Martin Carangelo
  • 04-01-21

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loved it. good book, imaginative story, but SayPale (sp?) is an abusive spouse. I know it's a story, but imagine if John did the things she does like throwing coffee cups at him? She never misses an opportunity to insult him and call him names. Imagine the roles reversed and he would be a repulsive character. Her abuse adds nothing to the story and is very distracting. If someone treated me like this, they'd find themselves alone very quickly.

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  • corddogs
  • 12-02-21

What a ride.

At the start of this book, I thought that I had made a mistake in buying, BUT it turned out to be a really fun listen. I loved the banter of the characters, the strangeness of the situations, the satirical story line. It entertained me and keep me engaged. Looking forward to the next.

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  • Mickey Harp
  • 08-11-21

Not my cup of tea.

I tried to like it. The premise was good. The story could have been good. However, the constant, endless snarky banter finally overwhelmed me. Enough already get on with the story.

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  • Corey Woodruff
  • 17-02-22

Absolutely terrible. How does this have 4.7 stars?

Tone - the ton of this book is completely off and the characters are nonsensical. why is everyone cracking wise when the world is about to be destroyed. Nothing makes any sense and it gave me a headache. I stopped halfway through and removed it from my device. What a total waste of a credit. The only reason I gave it two stars is because One star reviews get buried. Shame on Amazon and the fake reviews for this hot garbage

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  • J. Stmichel
  • 23-06-21

Garbage

These books were garbage. completely nonsense and disconnected storyline. The author tried to make his characters too pithy, but all it did was make you feel like you completely missed the first half of the book.

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  • nate203
  • 14-01-21

ouch

this one is a journey. can honestly say its been a while since my brain hurt so bad. kudos

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  • mike O
  • 22-12-20

another John Ryan story

no and epic John Ryan story is more like it they take a handful of the best storied sci-fi characters ever written about and throw them into a whole new disaster cannot wait for the next two books and the two following that and the two following that thank you Craig Robinson and Scott Aiello

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  • richard
  • 17-01-23

Some parts are laugh out loud/embarrassed in public funny

Story was a little outlandish but what a ride! I really enjoyed this book and had lots of laughs.

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  • Rick
  • 16-01-23

Soooo Annoying

Interesting concepts, if a bit confusing with too much conveniently tortured logic. Almost gave up a few times in the middle of the 50th annoying pedantic interaction between the characters. No matter how interesting the story was, this is my last John Ryan book.

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  • A guy who does stuff
  • 05-01-23

this is what passes for wit in the 6th grade..

but I was a pretty immature 6th grader. There is an interesting story here. It's science fiction so the fact that the premise is beyond absurd can be given a pass. The character development is non-existent beyond the first few chapters of the first book. it's like the author wrote a hard science fiction story, realized that it was too logically inconsistent and went back for a Hitchhikers Guide vibe.
I'm sitting here with less than 5 hours left in the story struggling to finish it. I'm not sure logical consistency is my issue with this story as much as internal cohesion. There is a ton of exposition going on about why something won't work because "time travel", but a few chapters later they're going on about why this other thing that is totally not exactly the same concept might work because "time travel".
this is almost enough to make me return to the series about a beer can flying around space with a bunch of monkeys. that stuff is comedy gold compared to this.

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