Alien: Invasion
The Rage War, Book 2
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Alien: Invasion
Narrated by:
John Chancer
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John Chancer
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Tim Lebbon
About this listen
The second original novel in an Alien vs. Predator: Rage War series, continuing from Predator: Incursion as Colonial Marines units are being wiped out - and not by the Predators. This is an attack by organized armies of Aliens.
Tim Lebbon is the New York Times best-selling author of the movie novelizations of 30 Days of Night and The Cabin in the Woods. He has also written many critically acclaimed horror and dark fantasy novels. Tim has won three British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, a Shocker, and a Tombstone and been a finalist for the International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards.
©2016 Tim Lebbon (P)2016 Audible, LtdListeners also enjoyed...
Gripping, but quite short
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Good story
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I want to give credit to the author for making a story that doesn’t feel convoluted like other aliens v predator films etc.
Great goons that you care about, great action and interesting and believable characters
Sad to have finished the trilogy. When’s the film out!!?? 😝
Totes awesome
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written by Tim Lebbon is the best of the three. The second book of a trilogy
series is often the strongest as all the introductory work which can often
be slow and was in the case of the first book has been done and we can get
to the heart of the story. This book picks right up from the cliff hanger we
were left at abruptly at the conclusion of book 1 and so there is no slow
spin-up to speed in this second book. Thus, pace for this story is much
better and it held my interest far more than the first book.
Plot was good with some very nasty and difficult combat situations as well
as plenty of gore for those into that stuff. One thing the author is not
afraid to do is to kill off established characters which is something less
common on the whole and a move that I actually liked as it raises the
credibility of the story.
The concept of the android generals with names of famous and infamous
historical military leaders was, for me, a little bit silly and I felt lent
a more childish feel to the story. This reminds me, I did note a recurring
error in the latter part of the previous book and opening section of this
one in that the author stated that the Patton android had been found pinned
to a bulkhead in his ship with his entire lower half missing and yet the
reference is made more than once to things being at or around his feet. Kind
of strange for someone without legs or maybe it's just me being my usual
picky self.
Other plot elements did seem a little odd to me. When we are moving through
the Predator habitat with Johnny Mains and crew, we come across multiple
Predator fatalities numbering more than our hapless surviving band
suggesting that these supreme hunters seem easier prey to the Aliens than
our heroes do. In addition, given the likely numbers of Predators occupying
their base, it seems very unlikely that they would flee from far lesser
numbers of Aliens.
John Chancer's narration is competent and I do like his normal voice but I
did find that his pronunciation of the female name Yvette was grating when
he actually sounded the letter 'Y' at the start rather than read it as an E
sound due to its French origins. Kind of thought a narrator would know this
stuff or perhaps it's just me being a nit picker. Maybe in the U.S they
distort the French name in this way, I don't know. My real gripe with his
narration is the often rather poor voices used for certain characters which
tend to undermine the story a little as they sound like something from a
children's cartoon. In particular, his female voices are the worst in this
regard. Of course, it's always hard for a male narrator to do a convincing
female voice but I kept thinking of the wicked witch of the North from the
Wizard of Oz when hearing Beatrix Maloney's character.
If you are in two minds about continuing this series after reading book 1
then I would recommend you do read on to this second part as it is far more
interesting and fast paced.
Overall a decent read and much closer to what an Alien Versus Predator story
should be.
Best Of The Series
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gripping!
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Poor performance
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Like...
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very good follow on
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Another one
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Narration is superb.
Beautifully developing story
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