Of Humans and Empires: Boxset

Of Humans and Empires, Book 4

De: Aaron Holloway

Narrado por: Jack Voraces

Follow all of the now declassified exploits of one agent, code named Friend, as they fight their way through a galaxy filled with trouble and danger that is on the brink of war!

This Boxset contains all three novellas. Of Humans and Empires, Interrogations and Interviews, and The Great Hunts Across The Stars!

©2020,2022,2024 Aaron Holloway (P)2024 Aaron Holloway

Some fun world building

The first book is basically all world building with only superficial narrative or characters. But the world building is fun and it’s an easy book to listen to. The next two books have more narrative and characters, but unfortunately I found the main character a little annoying and not particularly compelling. If you like the tropes of humans being super combative relative to other alien species or cocky spy characters then it might be worth checking out. Since the whole boxset is so short I also want to highlight that the last 31 minutes are actually a preview for a different story.

Unique shorter stories series

I will lead with the fact I did receive a free copy to review this title. However This box set was still a unique breath of fresh air as i haven't personally ran into a setup like this before. the interview/interrogation/log progression of the story tracking the characters development from story to story was nice. I'm a lore/world building nerd and some of the small offhand comments made by the main character help to flesh out a lived in world and let you sink in to it and think about interesting little tangents as the story progresses. I deeply enjoyed the the performance of Jack V. as he gave personality where some narrators just read the words in front of them he added the depth of emotion as events developed like an actual person would. overall I would definitely listen to another story by either author or narrator again.

monologues

The format of this big is it's greatest downfall. I am a fan of Jack Voraces for his excellent character voices, none of which we got to hear in this story as it it three books of monologues. The climax gets multicharacter dialogue which cam as a pleasant surprise after a bit of a slog. I think the first book was fine as a stage setting long prologue to the real story, but the next two books were in a format of a debrief and log recodings. if they story were told in real time perspective as events happened it would have been more exciting. the story itself was not bad, but I had a hard time trying to decide if it was supposed to be an action sci-fi that didn't quite deliver or if it was a series of comical anecdotes that didn't quite land because of the format. Either way I didn't have an emotional connection to the story because the few characters didn't have an emotional connection to who they were talking to. I look forward to the authors growth

Very enjoyable and different

Will now listen again and enjoy a second time, got to make up the minimum number of words

Fantastic narration, unique writing style, FUN!

I am a big fan of Jack Voraces and this series uses his skills to the max. I love the more personal feeling of the main character talking directly to us (or interviewing others). Its such a unique take on the Sci-Fi genre and I hope to see more from this author.

Good stories, good performance

This collection has three connected short stories that are largely worldbuilding stories. I really enjoyed them, especially the first two. Overall recommended.

Interesting format being log based.

have not listened to a log based book like this , was interesting in novelty. reminds me of the bobiverse a little and/or some hfy stories.

like the narrator ... I listen to a bunch of his content.

received for free.

Interesting Format

I’ve never read a book with this story-telling style before, as in, the characters in the story are literally telling the story to other characters or logs. Always been a sci-fi fan and these books start out like many good sci-fi stories but then it twists into other genres as well. I like pretty much everything Jack Voraces reads and he does a fantastic job here as always.

Fun anthology, great audiobook

I’m not usually a huge fan of short stories, but these ones were quite good and definitely elevated by an excellent reader! Will definitly need to revisit it sometime.