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Star Nomad

Fallen Empire, Book 1

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Star Nomad

By: Lindsay Buroker
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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The Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. It should be a time for celebration, but not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she's stranded on a dustball of a planet, billions of miles from her young daughter. She has no money or resources, and there are no transports heading to Perun, her former home and the last imperial stronghold.

But she has a plan.

Steal a dilapidated and malfunctioning freighter from a junkyard full of lawless savages. Slightly suicidal, but she believes she can do it. Her plan, however, does not account for the elite cyborg soldier squatting in the freighter, intending to use it for his own purposes. As an imperial soldier, he has no love for Alliance pilots. In fact he's quite fond of killing them.

Alisa has more problems than she can count, but she can't let cyborgs, savages, or ancient malfunctioning ships stand in her way. If she does she'll never see her daughter again.

Fans of Firefly and Star Wars should enjoy this fun, fast-paced new series from USA Today best-selling author Lindsay Buroker.

©2016 Lindsay Buroker (P)2016 Podium Publishing Fantasy Fiction Romance Science Fiction Space Opera Robotics Solider

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Fast paced sci-fi action, doesnt slow down until the end. Really liked it, but a bit too short to be worth the one Audible credit.

Good but short

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What made the experience of listening to Star Nomad the most enjoyable?

after reading the books it was great to be able to re-imagine the story through Kates narration, looking forward to the rest of the series

Who was your favorite character and why?

alisa for sure! she is tough sassy never say die attitude with a heart of gold

What about Kate Reading’s performance did you like?

I love Kate reading she was magnificent if the wheel of time(14 books) and here she is very good as well but I'm not sure she carries alisa's flippant humour across (maybe I just heard it differently in my mind when I originally read the book) otherwise very well read

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

firefly meets star wars

Any additional comments?

set in a universe where a 40 year galactic war has just been fought and the rebel alliance has beaten the imperial forces
Alisa Marchenko an alliance pilot stranded on a back water planet tries to reclaim her mum's old haulage space ship which lays abandoned in a scrap yard with the help of her engineer mica, only to find that an imperial cyborg soldier has already laid claim to the vehicle and plans to take it on a secret mission to the asteroid belt.
an action packed sci-fi adventure! fast paced and humorous with well defined characters

firefly meets star wars

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this is an alternative to the firefly story with many similar ideas all morphed to suit the writer. let's see how the saga moves forward as the first book was enjoyable.

firefly alternative

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this book is NOT a romance as stated. Although the storyline is good I was still disappointed.

No romance.

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Book 1 definitely interesting,, thoroughly enjoyed the book and can’t wait to listen to the rest of the series.

Really enjoyable.

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I could only listen for 10 minutes due to monotonous voice, which spoke in short clipped tones with an annoying upwards inflection at the end of phrases.

poor narrator

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I bought this book from Amazon along with the audio, but tried the audio book first. The reader sounds coarse and robotic, and when she tries to do the gruff voice of Leonidas it simply grates on the ear. I'm not quite sure what her accent is, but it doesn't sound natural. I'm happy to have books read in any accent, but not when it sounds forced. Such a pity when I recently finished Longbourne and the reader was perfect. The story may be reasonable, but I confess that I couldn't finish the audiobook. I stopped with just over two hours to go. I think I'll have to wait a while and then try reading the book from the beginning instead. The accent inside my head may be better.

Possibly a good book spoiled by the reader

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