Brilliant!

Another excellent chapter in the Black Fleet saga.
Looking forward to hearing how it all ends!???

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Excellent book marred by clunky character

I’ve really adored the last six books.
I’m really struggling to understand how this new character was added to the story. Perhaps by committee afterwards? By the end I was begging the author that she be dropped as a red herring but no, she’s everything she looked like she’d be the moment she was added. It’s a pity, the rest is more of the same grown and mature carefully through the last two series.

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fantastic listen

as a confirmed Star Trek fan, I was dubious of a series of books incorporating language like "Warp", "Star Fleet" and "Federation". but Dalzelle manages to navigate these landmines superbly and creates a gripping narrative that stands alone rather than being another "poor man's Star Trek".

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Really well written

Really enjoyed this book, can't wait for the next book in the series. Thanks Darrell

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Great as always

As good as all of the previous parts with great narration by Mark Boyett

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It’s back!

The tension, the politicking, the split second tactical decisions, it’s all there in glorious form!

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Great Book.. nice page turner and well narrated.

Follows the character Capt Wolf. same old faces lurk as well.
Another good book, first half is a slow burner, second half is very action oriented.
if you liked the previous trilogy with the good captain, you will like this

narrator mark Boyett is super good telling the story as well...

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Another excellent read

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and rate it amongst black fleet and expansion wars trilogies, well worth the download.

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Not really a review but...

it's a good story worth a read, but 45kg of antimatter, bulls***. the bombs dropped on Japan released 1g of energy and matter anti matter annihilations are 100% efficient at turning matter into antimatter that means 90kg of energy or 90,000 little man's at that point it's completely pointless and your better off with lots of much smaller bombs as the radiation is how you deal damage in space and radiation falls off by the inverse squared so for spending 90,000x the energy you only maintain the same level of destruction over ~512x the distance where as if you were to split that into 9000 bombs and spread them out to keep the level of destruction uniform over a certain distance you could get a area of effect ~27,000x greater.

and unless you have uber strong defenses like force shield that can shrug off nukes which we haven't seen yet there is no need for individual bombs that large. it's just a waste of resources because while ~512x the area does seem like a lot nukes or antimatter bombs in space are very short range weapons a conventional nuke in space would only be highly distuctive over 100 - 200 meters so we are only talking 50km - 100km which is super close range for space combat. if your goal is range in space your better off developing single use x ray lasers powered by nukes or antimatter which is actually useful especially if you don't have FTL sensors as you can't dodge it at medium ranges that being in space combat in my mind would be about 1/10 a light second or about 15,000km at this range only speed of light weapons or weapons that can chase down the target are useful. which of you put a x ray lasers on a missile it's both.

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very good

amazing space combat, gripping narrative and great narration. 10/10 would listen again.

can't wait for more updates in the series

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