Rikas Marauders: The Complete Series

Aeon 14: Rika Collections, Book 1

By: M. D. Cooper

Narrated by: Laura Jennings

Length: 53 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

The Genevians are at war with Nietzschea...and they’re losing.

In a last-ditch hope, the Genevian mech program was founded. Its goal to augment humans into cyborg fighting machines; mechanized warriors sent to hold the front lines against an enemy that was storming a hundred worlds.

Yet few wished to undergo the brutal process, and so criminals were used, their minds enslaved by control chips and obedience enforced through discipline.

The Genevians spent their mechs against the Nietzscheans with little care, eventually struggling to find enough bodies to convert into fighting machines. Quotas were set in the courts, prosecutors, and judges paid off to ensure that even the most benign offenses would see the perpetrator end up in a mech factory, rights and mind stripped as much as body.

Rika is one such victim.

Forged into a second generation scout mech, she is sent to the front lines where she serves with distinction, crushing countless enemies beneath her clawed feet.

But, despite giving everything she had, Genevia still loses the war, and Rika is abandoned.

Now she slings cargo on Dekar, little more than a human loading machine, struggling to keep ahead of the slow breakdown of her mechanized body.

Until someone makes her an offer she cannot refuse. An offer that will see her rejoin the fight - whether she wants to or not. Rika will have to summon a strength she never knew she had to bring about the victory that she once thought was lost.

Get Rika’s Marauders today and follow the ultimate rags-to-riches story, where one woman rises up and saves not only herself, but her people.

This omnibus volume contains all seven books in the Rika’s Marauders series, as well as two novellas: Rika Mechanized and Rika Crucible.

©2019 M. D. Cooper (P)2020 M. D. Cooper

Great but should be properly noted

So since I started reading the individual books before I decided to grab the bundle and save a few audible credits I can see how this would be an issue, this book is part of the aeon 14/ Orion war series and at this point you should’ve read the 3 books of the intrepid saga and 3 of the Orion war books. Then after the first two books of this series you stop and go back to book 4 of the other series then come back and finish this and then resume the remainder of the other series though it doesn’t seem that is properly notated anywhere in this story.

Great story. Long but we’ll done

One of the longest series, but well done and enjoyable. Performance was very good also

Long sucker!

At 54 hours it's close to 2 weeks of listening. Starts a bit slow and raw and almost gave up, glad I didn't but it becomes a page turner, lots of info , lots of going back and re-listening. will probably listen to it again. but first I want to listen to the author's other books about the universe he's created. The narrator was terrific and unfailing and did a lot to keep up the momentum of the story. Not for the faint of heart especially the beginning!

Very good 👍

I like how it was not predictable. I enjoyed the characters growth. Also the narrator was excellent.

Overall great book and story only one thing was annoying

This was a really great Cinderella story but with getting body parts chopped off and lots of murder, mayhem and mega tech wars but the way the author kept making up these long ass names for the guns the mechs had was so annoying to hear over and over. Really doesn’t it matter to call it a railgun or GA11-t105qc ? Right? I think simply relatable names are better and not so Bueller Bueller Bueller repetitive. I’m right in the middle of the story and in my imagination and then I have to hear this long ass name of a gun that makes no sense because it’s fictional made up and way too long so it completely interrupts the story. But other than that Rika is pretty bad ass except for that she needs to learn to stop getting her ass caught!

Well worth the credit

A fun listen and well worth the credit. Enjoy listening to these characters and their growth. Cannot tell where one books ends and another begins.

Good Attempt

I much prefer listening to the original voice of Rika. Sadly this narrator sounds like James T Jirk's love child. the have this nasty habit of jarring stops and lacks the ability to put life into the characters. Would have also been nice if they had bothered to mention which chapter and or even which book you where listening to.

Good to have a complete story line.

As the Tanis/Tangel story line became more mystical it was good to have the Rika story line be so focus and basic. Later books began to have more subplots and parallel lines that makes it more diverse but they blend back together faster. A very enjoyable read.

Engaging Tale

The entire series is good. The earlier books are better than the later books. The ending seemed a little anticlimactic but I was fully immersed the entire time.

this was enjoyable overall.

I wouldn't spend money or credits on this. The MC is too op. she has all over her victories handed to her on a silver platter. And when she does seem to struggle it doesn't last. doesn't seem like she's truly earned neither power nor rank. but just had it just because. All of the supporting characters are the same, they all love the MC and the only people she has issues with are clear cut bad guys.
Weak character development overall.