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Task Force Hammer

Expeditionary Force, Book 17

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Task Force Hammer

By: Craig Alanson
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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Summary

The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder starship, so why weren’t the Pirates planning a victory party?

The enemy was not what they thought it was.

It was much, much worse.

They had not a single clue how to defeat that enemy, or how to fight it, or whether fighting it was even possible. Only one thing was certain: the Pirates couldn’t handle this fight alone.

©2024 Craig Alanson (P)2024 Podium Audio
Adventure Humorous Military Science Fiction Space Opera Pirate
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Too much fluff and not the sugar type. Could easily shave 12 hours off this if you remove the pointless side stories and the repetition. Do we really need Hoe & skippy reminding each other of all the tricks they’ve pulled nearly every single chapter.

So much FLUFF

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I started listening to The Expeditionary Force series of books in early March 2024, as I type its midday 17/10/2024, and quickly decided I was going to listen to them all one after the other. 7 months later I just finished Task Force Hammer.

It'll come as no surprise from my ratings that I loved all 19 books, 17 full books and 2 .5's, and that is as much because of the narrator as it is the content. Before I buy a book to listen to I have to get on with the voice of whomever is narrating it and with R.C. Bray, they picked a good un. I will be actively going through his narration catalogue now to find more to listen to.

I will admit, I hated the Skippy character when he was first introduced and did think for a while he may put me off continuing to listen after Columbus Day but I stuck with him and he really grew on me. Yes he is annoying, and sometimes his distractions infuriated me, but of course, without Skippy there wouldn't be, currently, 19 books to listen to.

Despite my initial loathing of Skippy there wasn't a single character, that I can remember, that I wished hadn't been introduced with my 2 favourite characters being Scorandum & Kinsta. I'm hoping we get more of them, and their interactions, in the future.

I don't know what to listen to now. For 7 months every time I was in the car, cooking food, mowing the lawn and going for a walk somewhere I would be listening to the adventures of Bishop and Skippy and now I'm at a bit of a loss. To be fair Craig Allanson does appear to be quite the prolific writer so hopefully he has plenty more ideas for this series of books.

The biggest praise I can give for these books is at some point in the future I will listen to them again.

I hate writing reviews.

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the editing seems off. get random snippets that seem to have been added in but haven't been recorded in the same quality.

I enjoyed the listen but I can't help but feel this book and the last should should of been the same book. not a lot actually happens directly attached to the main story line. I like the fluff it adds to the emersion but it should be extra not stretching the character count to meet a minimum story length. I've had the same disappointed feeling at the end of the last few books where the excitement suddenly ends. id like to know the fallout particularly with this book.

you're this far I'm the series your not gonna not get this book. enjoy.

good but meh

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As always extremely clever banter and amazing characters, the story has kept me at the edge of my seat. Nagatha better not be dead 😘

Cliff hanger

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I finished too quickly as usual, trust in the craig awesomeness always and skippy sometimes

What will i do over christmas now?

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