Star Corps

Book One of The Legacy Trilogy

By: Ian Douglas

Narrated by: David Drummond

In the future,
earth's warriors have
conquered the heavens.

But on a distant world,
Humanity is in chains ...

Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying -- and fatal -- discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of the former masters, live on, far from the reach of Earth -- born weapons and technology ... and tens of thousands of captive human souls still bow to their iron will. Now Earth's Interstellar Marine Expeditionary Unit must undertake a rescue operation as improbable as it is essential to humankind's future, embarking on a ten-year voyage to a hostile world to face an entrenched enemy driven by dreams of past glory and intent once more on domination. For those who, for countless generations, have known nothing but toil and subjugation must be granted, at all costs, the precious gift entitled to all of their star-traveling kind: freedom!

First Class SciFi

The technical concepts are mind blowing. The milieu detailed. The action rousing. Couldn't ask for better entertainment.

Just can’t enjoy the narration, he reads it like a bad version of automated service.

The story was a ok , but gave up on chapter 13. I hope the following books were narrated by someone else

Enjoy

Good story. Enjoyed it. Plenty of action and adventure with descent science mixed in with it.

Love these books, narration ruined it.

I've read all the books in these series and have always enjoyed then. Easy enough to digest and always kept me interested. Unfortunately I just cannot handle the narration. The cadence is terrible, there is a huge lack of emotion, and so many times the inflection is completely wrong for the scene. Many of the scenes are somber and grim yet the narrator's tonality is plodding and somehow upbeat. Absolutely removes the immersion. He'd be very good for an automated VOIP system, but novels are not his forte. I have experience with voice overs and just can't see how he was cast for this. Returned two of the books but can't return the third it seems. Guess I'll dig these out of storage, but I travel a lot and these would have been nice to listen to.

Terrible narration

This book is great, the narrator is trash, disappointing and tough to listen to. He knows these are Space Marines and not customer service employees right ?