To Valor's Bid

Monster Girls in Space, Book 1

De: M. Tress

Narrado por: Jack Smith, Anne Marie Lebeaur

Desmond McLaughlin was just getting through his life and trying to survive. A 9-5 job and a hobby that cost more than it earned left him just enough money to afford a crappy apartment and time to dream of something better. He was expecting to spend most of his life like this.

He hadn’t expected to be greeted by a CIA agent waiting inside his house one evening. He wasn’t expecting that CIA agent to tell him that he was being drafted for a special mission. And he really wasn’t expecting to basically get kidnapped.

But most of all, he wasn’t expecting to be told two important things. One, aliens were out there. And two, they wanted to take him as the first of the locals drafted from his planet to go to one of the few super-dreadnought class starships in the Hegemony and learn magic.

Join Desmond as he learns to manipulate mana—a source of power that exists beyond the reach of most people in the universe—meets vastly different alien species, risks life and limb, all while trying to pass classes. If he’s lucky, he will find someone he can trust out here amongst the weird. If he's very lucky, maybe someone he can love.

©2024 M.Tress (P)2024 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Good story/pace/narration

There are sections in the narration that seem extremely challenging. Also some pronunciation issues with specific words that I had to rewind and re listen to just ensure I heard something right. Some of it is nit pic-key, I still give high marks. I guess I am so used to some of the British pronunciations it sort of was odd. Also, I think there are some audio quality issues , where it’s like the baritone of the male actor’s voice sort of winds up running into issues. I am not sure if it’s the audio quality or just the voice depth and my headphones.

Well done

writing and character seem real and interesting. magic system had some thought out into it. The aliens are noticeable alien but they are still relatable. Author avoided making an one race as the "bad guys", which is refreshing.

Trying to keep track of all the aliens species is a bit of a chore but that is by no means a deal breaker. Would be nice to

Entertaining!

Fantastic story, good audiobook. Odd pronunciation of a few long English words. No dictionary I could find had those pronunciations. Otherwise fantastic!

Amazing world building, dissapointing male voice.

If it wasn't for the amazing world building and interesting gender reversal, and big women, I wouldn't have kept listening. Anne Marie Lebeaur is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in the book, Jack Smith just doesn't really have a pleasant voice to listen to, and his intonations kind of ruin a lot of good scene's, like when he calls Chloe his precious, it just makes me laugh a lot because of how he sais it and how it sounds coming from his voice, instead of having a warm feeling romance is supposed to give you.

good book

if you like Daniel Schinhofen, William D. Arand and Randi Darren
you will love M. Tress

i love book 1 i read book 2 and 3 it is good and need more

the Performance was good it repeated a word or but that were good would love to hear more from them with this series

M. Tress keep doing a good job

It was ok but definitely hyped way more than it was worth.

The overall story was good but I'd definitely put it overall mid. The action was OK but nothing epic or heart pounding. The characters are ok if not a little one dimensional and bland. I also hate the pet names he uses. I'll continue the series but its not a priority. Hopefully book 2 will get more into it.

good listen

attention capturing, good dialog and good references to other popular novels/popculture. excelent start to a good series.

Great story

I will start with saying reviews matter. I got this book because of the great reviews. Normally I am not a space fantasy person but this story was excellent the writing was excellent. Many things were out of my comfort zone but because of the narration the story and entire production was excellent I was very pleased getting book 2 now

Entertaining and fun

I thoroughly enjoyed this. I’m a big fan of Daniel Schinhofen and Bruce Sentar, and this book just hits so well but so different. Except me, focused and entertained, even while working. Well, there are a couple of hiccups where words are repeated with the audio, it was phenomenally well written and well done.I cannot wait, for the rest of the series to come out on audible. As I’ll be snapping them up as soon as I become available

and very interesting read cool storyline

I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook and the storyline and character creation of this book it was entertaining and fascinating