Mech Wars: The Complete Series

By: Scott Bartlett

Narrated by: Mark Boyett

Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Humanity is tired of losing. Enter the mech.

Jake Price has always dreamed of joining the Darkstream military like his father before him. When he’s told his gaming scores are good enough to qualify him for a brand-new training program designed to find recruits talented enough to pilot humanity’s first mechs, he can hardly believe it.

He’s right to be doubtful. There are hundreds of other recruits competing for the same eight jobs, and they’re all as skilled as he is. Worse, the training instructor is an unhinged chief with a particular dislike for Jake.

But Jake refuses to give up, refuses to wash out, because humanity is facing its greatest threat yet. If someone doesn’t step up, it could all be over for the human species.

Contains the complete series:

• Powered
• Dynamo
• Meltdown
• Infliction

©2017-2018 Scott Bartlett (P)2018 Scott Bartlett

I would pass

really hard to get in the story really nothing special about it just and it's not the complete set

very great deviation of storage

a great book very interesting storyline challenging to keep on going with the way things worked out look forward to the next ones in the series

Typical Mech Battle Story

Nothing new here ... pretty good classic Mech lingo and tech. As a 4 book package a enjoyable read ... but 4 credits for 4 books would not be just. Characters never really gelled.

amazing

I loved it. right up my alley and my favorite narrator! good plot twist and the whole nine yards going to listen to it again for sure.

Great story potential ruined by political views.

Great story potential that is completely ruined by the authors political views. If you don't want political evangelizing at the detriment of good SciFi story you should read M.R. Forbes or Richard Fox instead.

Excellent narration + Action packed story!

I read this after reading book 4 of the Ixan series (Capital Starship) and I felt it was perfectly timed since the characters of Mech Wars play a major part in book 5 of the Ixan series (Pride of the Fleet) but you can read Mech Wars as a stand alone if you wish though I would not suggest you read the Ixan books without Mech Wars in between the two trilogies. The narration is outstanding and the story is very action packed with long space battles that really feel like you're in the action! Another reviewer wrote this is great for fans of Halo, Mass Effect, or other sci fi games. The story isn't crazy deep nor are there great reveals or plot twists but the story is easy to follow and there are TONS of battles that are action packed and really awesome! I see some viewers felt the book was too political but as far as scifi goes this book is not political at all and after reading it I couldn't guess the Authors political stance so I feel the few bits of politics here and there were well delivered, the last 3 books of the Ixan universe do get fairly political but still manage to tow the line in a balanced way. I've read 9 books by this Author and I find them all easy to follow and very entertaining. Anyone who reads scifi for fun & entertainment should like this series. Scifi elitist or those looking for serous depth may not enjoy the read as much.

It’s Mechs. What more do you want?

I loved this series. Lots of action and a well put together story. Highly recommendable.

Pretty good but got a bit long in the tooth

I couch this review with the fact that I finished the entire main story first so, perhaps if I had jumped over to the mech wars at the right time (somewhere in the middle of the main story) it would have been a better experience. As it is though, I just thought the series as a whole was fine but the Quatro seemed a bit 2 dimensional actually most characters just seemed to lack some of the depth I felt we got from the main series.

Predictable but still fun

it was fun to read but kind of predictable as it moved along. I ended up getting into this series after I started the legacy series

Unsatisfying ending

I listened to all 4 books. The expectation was that this was the entire story. However, the ending had way too many details that were not resolved. I fully realize that this technique sets up future books. However, this can be done in a way that resolved the plot details more fully.