Into the Battle

Rise of the Republic, Book 2

De: James Rosone

Narrado por: Jonathan Davis

Mankind has awakened a monster. Humanity must put aside its own animosities…or face extinction.

The origins of human history begin to unravel as Earth learns they are not the only humans in the galaxy. The sudden discovery of humans living on multiple planets beyond their own has created more questions than it’s answered.

When humanity arrived on New Eden, a hideous new alien race, the Zodarks was discovered. In the face of an existential threat to their own survival, the historical warring factions of Earth will need to unite if they want to save themselves from extinction and understand the true origins on human history.

A fleet is built; an invasion force is assembled. Join our heroes as they lead humanity into the battle to conquer their first alien world and liberate previously unknown humans from the bondage of slavery and servitude.

©2021 James Rosone (P)2021 Podium Audio

Outstanding

This series is one of the best I’ve ever listened to. Great characters. Terrific story line. Plot is well thought out. I’m going to buy the next one right now.

Enjoyed it better...

I enjoyed the 1st book, as I found it to be an entertaining military sci-fi origin story. There were many dead end points in the plot, overall, but in general I thought it was a good effort. The sophomore entry did continue to deliver and expand the story, and I'm looking forward to the further entries to see where this story leads. Alot of details were added in the story, although there will need to be many more explanations and further developments to scope out the this universe. Overall, it is one of the better military sci-fi series I've read, and I've read many, lol.

Very good story

I loved it. I liked seeing humanity joining the greater galactic community. Step by step they earned their place in a new society.

Some Realism Would Be Nice

I have just started book two and something from book one that bothered me was again present in the beginning of book two.
The lack of realism in the fighting, ship based, ground combat, on the enemy spaceship.
First off, from book one and into this book, the elite Deltas are morons and lack basic combat doctrine. In book one, when they met the Zodarks for the first time, they let them not only take captives but then assault the Deltas who seem to be standing flat footed and almost get their butts handed to them.

In the beginning of this book, they board an enemy ship and again their tactics are stupid. One, you do not run at the enemy, you shoot from cover, kill them with your weapons at range, and use bounding overwatch to advance. No need for a damn knife fight as the master sergeant did. Secondly, like in the first book and now this one, you do NOT get close to this enemy when talking as they are big and violent. Queue the head removals by claws....again.

Finally, to the space battles so far. First off you do NOT call out, they are firing, when their pulse lasers fire. You would only know when they struck your ship, you know, that speed of light thing. How could you know they were firing, can you sense faster than light. Nope.
Captain Hunt is not a very good captain. You do not have to tell your folks when to fire as you told them when to fire already. You do not have to tell your weapons officer to engage the point defense weapons when the missiles are coming in, they should have been activated, and on automatic, when the ship went to general quarters. Stop telling the navigator to roll the ship so the pulse lasers do not hit one point continuously, they should be doing that automatically from the first battle in book one.
When entering a hostile system, you do not turn on all your radars to full to try and see what is in system. You come in quiet and soak up the already travelling electromatic waves the enemy may be emitting to get a feel of how the system is laid out and where the pieces are. There is a thing called time delay over distance.
And not having the four destroyers flanking around you to use their point defense to augment your own is really a rookie move. Why were they running behind you? As soon as you saw the two ships, bigger than the first, coming at you after you flooded the system with your radars, the destroyers and the Voyager should have been in formation with you, all supporting each other.

James Rosone is a good writer. The Monroe Doctrine was supremely current to today's geopolitics and scary in what could actually happen in a war with China. The combat in that series is REALLY good.

I do like the narrator and I have this whole so I will continue on. Just hope the space and military battles get more realistic.

great but missing part

good story but right near the end it jumps to an after action conversation about battling a star destroyer... without us being present for said battle.

Lame mixture of tech…

Aerial surveillance in the future, seems to be pre-2022… as a plot driver.

Lame

Not Sure but…

Enjoyed the first book, but the second book has taken a turn with strange stories of new aliens. Going to stay on with the next book and see how it works out. Hope it stays online with the first book and hope the story continues to be good….

Very good story and delivered well.

I liked the way the story developed. Delivered very well. The book left me wanting more.

Good book but still highly derivative.

Another good book, but could use more creativity. The author is a great story teller, but he needs more original ideas. Not to give too many spoilers, but he basically introduced a technologically superior race that look similar to the classic alien Greys and have all of the technology of Star Trek including Transporters, Replicator, and Phasers without even bothering to change the names.

E - lectronic!!!!

The story is sweet and simple. I like stories where things go well, eventually. It moves quickly. I enjoy the narrators voice for the narration but he doesn’t have a lot of character voices. I think I can identify maybe three. It’s ok because there isn’t usually dialog between more than three people. I do cringe every time he says “A-lectronic”, which is kind of a lot. Story is so similar to Stargate I am waiting for it to actually BE it.