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Embers of War

By: Gareth L. Powell
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Greg Tremblay, Soneela Nankani, Natasha Soudek
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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 ...

©2018 Gareth L. Powell (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Military Science Fiction War & Military War War Fiction
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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

Excellent story let down by narration

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I wanted to like this book, as I enjoy Greg Tremblay voice acting, but the reading in this book is split up between several readers, who overlap characters.... I think... (hence how confusing it becomes) I'm hoping the whole series isn't like this.

confusing use of voice actors

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Loved the characters especially the ships and the Nod. Great readers too. A must listen experience for all audiobook sci-fi fans. And there's two more. Torpedoes hit..... 💥 Boom

Epic space opera taking me on a flight of the navigator journey with augmentation!

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The story is interesting and elaborate. One of the 5 narrators has pronunciation I find mildly irritating but who knows what a space captain several millennia in the future sounds like. The other narrators make a wholly positive contribution. This is a really enjoyable story not a physics lecture.

Great story largely good performance

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I have repeatedly been amazed by this book it has a depth of characters and plots that melted into a storyline that is well narrated and came alive as it developed

I have repeatedly been amazed by this book

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