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The Ember War

The Ember War, Book 1, 2

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The Ember War

By: Richard Fox
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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The Ember War, book 1: The Earth is doomed. Humanity has a chance.

In the near future, an alien probe arrives on Earth with a pivotal mission: to determine if humanity has what it takes to survive the impending invasion by a merciless armada. The probe discovers Marc Ibarra, a young inventor who holds the key to a daring gambit that could save a fraction of Earth's population. Humanity's only chance lies with Ibarra's ability to keep a terrible secret and engineer the planet down the narrow path to survival. Earth will need a fleet. One with a hidden purpose. One strong enough to fight a battle against annihilation.

The Ember War is the first installment in an epic military sci-fi series. If you enjoyed A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo and The Last Starship by Vaughn Heppner, then you'll love this explosive adventure with constant thrills and high stakes from beginning to end.

The Ruins of Anthalas, book 2: An ancient holocaust holds the key to humanity's survival.

Only a sliver of mankind survived the Xaros invasion. With Earth's defenses in ashes, nothing can stop the aliens' inevitable return. Hope arrives through a cryptic message from a long-lost alien race, promising the means to rebuild the shattered space fleet. Captain Valdar takes one of the last strike carriers, the Breitenfeld, and his shell-shocked crew on a desperate mission to the dead world. Unfortunately humans aren't the only power that received the ancient message....

The Ruins of Anthalas is the second book in The Ember War Saga, a military sci-fi space opera. If you like David Weber and John Ringo with a touch of Isaac Asimov, then you'll love this fast-paced and captivating adventure where humanity survives at the edge of a knife.

©2016 Richard Fox (P)2016 Podium Audio
Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Space Opera War Adventure Military Fiction

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Worth listening to, believable characters with the right amount of depth.
finishes far to quickly

Good story but very short.

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Loved it and got into the characters in both books. Enjoyed the stories and they held my attention. Looking forward to reading the next book in series.

The ember war: Publisher's pack, books 1 & 2.

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The narrator has a good speaking voice, but cannot do accents without literally causing my hearing to shut down in self defence.

This is made doubly worse by French characters, Canadian characters and… the poor Scottish character having the *worst* stereotypes written accents.

I don’t take offence at bad accents, but these actually made listening less pleasant, particularly the Scottish character, who is of course an engineer of sorts.

Listener beware.

The story is excellent - a little cross wired when it comes to the needs of the many vs. the needs of a few, and what ‘survival’ means.

But the technology, plot and general universe style could be Mass effect, particularly in the evocative fight scenes.

I am only writing this review to say one thing…

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This SiFi story is very interesting, there is some tech and I found I had to concentrate, and sometimes repeat a chapter so that I understood the story correctly, but this is just what I wanted, One can, with imagination, put yourself in that story, and become trapped in that world. I loved it, and a good narrator makes a difference too. well done and thank you.

Great SiFi Concentration needed.

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great read ,sorry listen, especially as its part 1 and 2 excellent value, will watch out for more from this auther

good solid story

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I enjoyed these two fast-paced works of art immensely. Lovable characters, with nail biting twists and turns that had me on the edge of my seat till the very end. Looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

Very enjoyable fast-paced space story.

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I enjoy lisening this book. The story is good a little to much violence but a good book.

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really enjoyed the audiobook good story, engaging, allows me to listen whilst I am at work.

bargain book 1 and 2

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these book on space wars I find easily reading and entertaining. you can also take more liberty in the story line. Well worth listening too will have to get the next book now

entertaining

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Great book but terrible accents from the narrator. Being Scottish I was a little upset but the Scandinavian was like Indian!

Really had to stick at listening for the first 3 chapters

Very good space saga let down not by the narration but by the narrators accents.

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