"one of the best science fiction series"
Fun suspenseful and entertaining
the way this Story was made out to you felt like you were there
I can't pick one character I enjoyed all of them even the bad one s
for the honor of the ancestors
I hope they don't spoil the movie LoL
I like Military Sci-Fi, regular military and military history. I like sickening amounts of technical details about weapons and vehicles of combat. I love tactics and survival/scavaging. The Bolo! series is by far my favorite series. Keith L aumer, William H. Keith, and David Weber probably my favorite writters for the series. I also love Day by Day Armageddon trililogy.
"Awesome Series!"
Yes, technical enough for me, yet fulfills, what I would think is what any sci-fi lover would enjoy.
Not sure, I was hoping you could tell me. Day by day Armageddon is my all time favorite book series. Favorite Sci-Fi series is Bolo.
Christian Rummel, is awesome. Great voices, excellent performance. Just as good, maybe better then Justin Snyder.
Yes.
I love sicking amounts of technical detail, couldn't be enough. I would love for him to explain more about the ships, the weapons, the jump drives. But understand he would limit his audience.
"Shouldn't have waited so long."
I had seen the Lost Fleet series popping up as suggestions, and in various sales, for quite a while. I thought, from the beginning, that the series would interest me as a sci-fi fan. Finally I'd gone through all the series I was reading when I was seeing this one pop up and decided, "What the heck, no better time than the present" and gave it a shot. The only regret I have is not starting this series sooner. I've truly enjoyed every minute of it. Yes, it has some repetition in it, but I've noticed that many great series also have some repetition. I'm sure the author doesn't always know, or assume, the reader will remember everything so it's good to have those little reminders in there, and personally they don't bother me at all. I like that the author doesn't make aspects of space flight and space battle so specific with detail that it's boring, but instead provides just enough detail about what's going on (distances, speeds, etc) to make a good mental image and keeps going with the story. I've read stories on both extremes, with too much and others with not enough, detail and it becomes either distracting or disengaging. This series hits the mark pretty close to perfect in my opinion and once I started the series, I couldn't stop until I finished them all. If you're a sci-fi fan, I really don't think you can go wrong listening to the Lost Fleet series.
"The ending 60 min is great, but...."
This books lends waaaaay to much time with the interactions between Geary, Reon and Dajani. Not only do these parts drag, the Co-President Reon dialog just felt inconsistent in her love then hate then love cycle. I mean my god she really seems bipolar sometimes. I almost failed to get past the middle of this book but the ending was enough for me to buy the next book. I just hope there is less bedroom drama and more of what makes this book great at its core.
"More Grand Space Opera"
If you like hard (okay, maybe just a little squishy) science fiction with a huge dose of drama and solid, if not overly deep, characters, Jack Campbell is an author to keep on your list. I've listened to the whole Lost Fleet and Beyond the Frontier series', and there wasn't a slow or disappointing book in the bunch.
It's all about politics and space combat, and a clash of cultures that could ultimately save humanity.
My only complaint (and it's really petty), is that by naming the books after random ships it's a little hard to keep track of what order they come in. I needed a cheat sheet that I kept on a memo in my Blackberry so I knew in what order to listen.
I said it was petty.
Great narration by Christian Rummel. For space opera and science fiction fans these are a great listen.
"After good first 2 books just pass on this one"
The reader is fine but after liking the 1st 2 books I would recommend against buying this one. Unfortunately a large portion of this 3rd book as others have mentioned is taken up by the repeating and boring interaction with Geary Reon, and Dajani....yada yada yada we've heard all of this tiresome stuff so many times now! And you need a strong protaganist! I really had to force myself to finish this, only the last 60 minutes were even a little bit interesting. My impression is this series could and should have been edited down and sold as 1 or 2 books maximum. To bad it started out well.
"Probably gonna skip the next one"
This is the third one of these I have listened to. The first was pretty good, the second was not quite as good, and this one has way too much of the bad parts of the first two. The infantile relationship between Black Jack Greary and Co-President Reeown takes up a significant part of the book. Personally I found myself hoping she would end up a casualty so we wouldn't have to listen to her self-righteous preaching. But I digress. Basically I would advise skipping this one unless you really thought her character was enjoyable. The narrator was good, no problems on that front.
"Remarkable"
I've been forgetting to write up this review for like almost 2 weeks now. I completed this wonderful novel probably March 1st. Like all my other reviews on the Lost Fleet series I don't want to sound bias or anything, but this is truly a 10/10 read(listen). The reader, Christian Rummel, is perfect he gives voice and life to the characters with his change of pitch to sound like a female to a male and back. I don't think I can hear another voice read this book to me ever... never ever.
So about the book then... With out spoiling anything I will say this: You will be on the edge of your seat through out the whole book. I've been on edge when ever I read this series since the first novel. It's just that great! Theres action and... well slightly romance. The way Jack Campbell brings these characters to life is plain astonishing. I hope you all enjoy this book as much as I do :)
"Solid Military Sci-Fi"
As I continue through this series, it really reinforces my initial feelings from the first two books. From technical vantage points, the books are really fantastic and give you a birds eye view of military operations and space warfare which is explained in great detail. I, for one, really enjoy it but I think more casual sci-fi fans might find it somewhat boring.
The characters do tend to come across to me as somewhat two-dimensional and there's honestly not a lot of emotional impact in this series but the technical detail is keeping me very entertained despite the character shortcomings.
I do still wonder if another narrator might have improved the experience a bit.
"Too much repitiion"
The overall series is ok but the author repeats himself constantly. Did I mention that he repeats himself. Each and EVERY book he retells the entire story from the beginning. That means that the first book is good and each one afterwards gets more frustrating. If he had cut out the repetive parts the series would be much better and more cohesive.
The other thing about the series that I don't like is the way that the author wrote the 2 main female characters. They are uninspiring and many times I wanted to smack the author for the things that they said to the main character. I was at first glad to hear that the author had a female character in a strong role. But the bickering and in-fighting between the leads was horrible.
The reader is a good one.