Emerald Sea

Council Wars, Book 2

By: John Ringo

Narrated by: Tim Fannon

The fast-paced sequel to There Will be Dragons is a rollicking adventure above and below the high seas with dragons, orcas, beautiful mermaids - and the irrepressible Bast the Wood Elf, a cross between Legolas and Mae West. 

Duke Edmund Talbot has been assigned a simple mission: Go to the Southern Isles and make contact with the scattered mer-folk-those who, before the worldwide collapse of technology, had altered their bodies in the shape of mythical sea-dwelling creatures. He must convince them to side with the Freedom Coalition in the battles against the fascist dictators of New Destiny. Just a simple diplomatic mission. That requires the service of a dragon-carrier and Lieutenant Herzer Herrick, the most blooded of the Blood Lords. Because New Destiny has plans of its own.

©2013 John Ringo (P)2020 Recorded Books, Inc.

pretty impressed

I'm an avid audiobook listener and this is one of the best fantasy books I've heard. It's a far future version of world and everything is gone crashing down. Herzer is a great noble hero with a past. Duke Edmund is brilliant. Other characters are great too. And the bonus story at the end is more than icing on the cake.

good stuff

great book its got a good story,good characters, good development, wanna hear more about megan

One of Ringo's best I think

I've read the dead tree versions, loved them. I like the audiobook but this narrarator needs a LOT of work with pronunciation and storytelling. Obviously the editorial team was napping the whole time to let all the mistakes go uncorrected.

Author gets lost in the weeds a lot.

I like the overall story but the author sounds an inordinate amount of time explaining minutiae.
At some point even the characters are probably tired of hearing all the details about what they are doing.

Good imagination - skip the sex stuff

Mr. Ringo has a great imagination, does good research and is all in all a very good writer. However, I found the ‘love/sexual’ content in the book so tiring and repetitious that I just fast forwarded through most of it. It seemed adolescent and pornography driven to me. The ‘love’ between the heroine and the irresistible hero was all about sex no matter how it was framed. So it was a fun imaginative book, but be ready for a lot of sexual tangents that don’t add much to the story.