A Fallen Empire Omnibus

Books 1-3

By: Lindsay Buroker

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's Summary

A fighter pilot on a mission to reunite with her daughter. A cyborg soldier on a quest to regain his humanity.

Mortal enemies during the war, they must now work together to salvage a 70-year-old freighter and navigate the gauntlet of pirates, scavengers, mercenaries, and other pitfalls that stand in their way after the fall of the largest empire mankind has ever known.

This omnibus includes Star Nomad (Book One), Honor's Flight (Book Two), Starseers (Book Three), as well as the short story, "Starfall Station".

Star Nomad was a nominee for the Goodreads Readers' Choice Awards and also made Amazon's Top 20 list of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016. Start the adventure now!

©2017 Lindsay Buroker (P)2017 Podium Publishing

EXCELLENT. WELL WRITTEN AND PERFORMED

Fantastic space opera. I love the protagonists. Lots of action and a little romance thrown in. Alisa, the fighter pilot of the Alliance and Leonidas, the cyborg colonel of the empire had to work together to get to their goals. Along the way they have to escape from their enemies. A very well written series with witty dialogue , intrigues and politics in the mix. A boxed set of 3 books is really worth the credit. I will be continuing book 4 and I hope book 5 will come out soon.

Popcorn space opera

This omnibus contains books 1-3, plus book 2’s epilogue is a 1.5 hr novella. Moreover, there’s a prequel and a novella labeled book 1.5 currently free in Audible Plus. That’s 3 books and 3 novellas for 1 credit.

The series itself falls between (shiny) Firefly and (comicky) Space Team. This feels very YA, delivering only redshirt death and largely bloodless violence. Indeed, much of this story is lacking in detail or depth. If you want vivid descriptions of characters, plot, or tech, you’ll be disappointed. For example, Leonidis is a cyborg, yet after three books I still have no idea if he has small metal bits like Borg Seven of Nine or has majority metal limbs like Cyborg in Teen Titans.

Still, if you color inside the broad brushstrokes, it’s fun to see the formation of a Firefly-lite kind of family amid the cargo ship Nomad. There’s snark and adventure enough to give good matinee listening.

Disappointed by the Crude Humor

I like clean science fiction and had high hopes for this author based on other reviews. Unfortunately, this has a lot of crude humor. Don't get this book if you are looking for clean literature.

Fun, not a narrator fan...

The story was enjoyable, but the narrator’s style is weird, like she’s not fully aware of what she’s actually reading.

A writer worth reading, excellent narrator

I had not found a lot of women SciFi authors I liked since Andre Norton changed her focus. I know they are out there and I may have been lazy looking for them. Buroker has created interesting characters, a solid plot line and set the hook for me wanting to see where the adventure goes. It may have gone a bit far with what the character calls "inappropriate" jokes but that is coming from myself who jokes at inappropriate times. I suspect I'll buy the series. I don't think she will let me down.

Few stories have everything. This does.

I enjoyed everything about this series and hope for more. I love the captain snd care deeply for the motley crew. Three cheers for a continuing adventure.

Meh.

What would have made A Fallen Empire Omnibus better?

I didn't find myself caring about any of the characters. They lacked depth and seemed superficial and predictable. I tried to hang in there but after a few hours I still did not care about the fate of the motley crew.

Would you ever listen to anything by Lindsay Buroker again?

Perhaps.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Boredom

tiresome romcom

I would not have started this series and actually purchased two of the books if I realized that it was going to take eight books to complete. Each book is fine if you enjoy: run fight capture, run fight capture, repeat ad nauseam. It's just too slow in resolving the problems and too long in filler material as they careen across the galaxy fighting everywhere they go.

Of course real romance takes a while to develop but it needs to be more nuanced than this.

Way too much snark

There aren’t any characters in this book that I would care to spend any time with: 1) a captain who who can’t resist any inopportune moment for lame snark 2) a talented ship’s engineer who oozes negativity 3) an airhead security officer/cook 4) a secretive passenger whom the captain has overheard suggest her murder, still she keeps him aboard 5) a sullen, dangerous, enemy, cyborg passenger on a personal quest, the nature of which, remains unrevealed by the end of book three. 6) an airhead passenger who is into drugs,meditation, and chickens.

I’m curious, but not enough to continue.

Really good!

Great character development, good movement and adventure in the plot. In the selection of narrator? Superb!

Fun space adventure

Interesting characters and fun story set in a universe with a lot of tensions. It is enjoyable with a lot of humor. Quite a few things remind me of the TV show Firefly, which in my opinion is a very good thing.

Picked this up mostly because it's read by Kate Reading to be honest, and I was in the mood for a scifi.
I am completely sold now and will definitely continue this series and look into other books by Buroker.

great world building and interesting characters

I am now 6 books in and I just wanted to come back and review this series - its great and I see my self buying all the books in the series eventually.

This series reminds me of "The Emperor's edge" series by Lindsay (only the best steam punk series of all time) which was available as an iTunes podcast for free - I never understood why the whole series isn't available in an audio format but there you go...
- exciting locations
- clever escapes
- larger political plot

I think I love all the dialogue between Alisa and the engineer its sass on sass and therefore just awesome.

Generic

The main problem with this book was that a number of plot twists were recognisable from other books/films of the same genre - which loses the originality feel. Other than that the characters were fine and it is a lighthearted listen,

very well written and performed

good books, very easy to listen to and follow the plot. if it was not an omnibus, I guess the individual books may have been of somewhat lower content/price ratio against similar titles, but as it is - very good listening for not very much money.

Fantastic syfy series.

Great storey telling and naration is excellent. the I'll be buying the rest of the series.

Clever, witty and fun

Very witty and made me chuckle often ! Good fun good characters. I need the next book now

Character driven Sci-Fi

Wonderfully crafted characters that drive an intriguing story. Moreover our heroin is hilarious! Looking forward to reading the next in the series.

cliché and shallow

an average story, poor performance, shallow and cliché characters.
first time a space opera is both boring and expectable, with almost monotonous reading, among the Included catalogue.

Not bad, not amazing

Story isn't bad, a bit clichéd in places but the narrator is tough to listen to (in my opinion)

MEAHHH

A copy of a star wars predictably sarga, you hope it's going to get better it doesn't.