Acheron Salvation

Federation Chronicles, Book 2

By: Ken Lozito

Narrated by: Phil Thron

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's Summary

Quinton Aldren thought he could leave his past behind him.... He was wrong.

First came the development of a Personality Matrix Construct - PMC, transferring human consciousness into a machine. It changed the galaxy and the way wars were fought. Then something went wrong with PMCs and the Federation Wars toppled the galactic order. PMCs became a menace to be hunted and exterminated.

Long after the Federation Wars, the galaxy limps on. Spacers carve out an existence upon the bones of the old worlds, but things are about to change...something has begun broadcasting signals to reactivate PMCs that were stored in secret.

Quinton Aldren is a PMC. His consciousness was uploaded and stored over a century ago, before the Federation Wars. All Quinton wants is to leave his past behind, but the broadcasts keep occurring. More PMCs are coming online, and not all of them are entirely stable. Federation War machines are on the hunt for them, and they don’t care who gets in their way.

Acheron Salvation is a fast-paced science fiction novel in the classic space opera and military sci-fi traditions, by Amazon best-selling author Ken Lozito.

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Really good

It’s a great original story. The novella available would make a great way to start the series. I listed to it right after book 1

great scifi

loved it the story grabbed me and I had to listen to the whole book in one day

Excellent Storyline

Ken Lozito continues to be my favorite author, the likes of David Weber, BV Larson and the greatest of all, Isaac Asimov.

The concept behind Archeron is simple, the characters are multi dimensional and drive the story forward better than most authors have the ability to do.

The fate of the Galaxy is at stake and a small band of characters face the challenge head on, accepting their individual flaws, yet being stronger as a unit than each individual.

The challenges are massive, as all galactic challenges should be. Together they have a plan and the confidence that they’ll achieve because they work together and as individuals.

Can’t wait to read the rest of the story as it develops.

Man this book rocked

I don't how you come up with this stuff but please keep it up, I loved the book, the narration rocked also

This was not as good as the first one

Don’t really think the author put his soul in to this book. It was messy and didn’t keep the thrill the firs book gave me. I wanted to like it but except for the last 30min of the book it was just boring and confusing. Another thing was that the narrow took a long time to get into the book and he didn’t get the characters as good and it was really hard to come tru the first half of the book because of this. But he got the characters life in the end of the book.
I still think that Ken should write a continuing of the prequel of this story. That has a lot more potential then this series.

Good communication

I appreciate the ability to tell such fantastic stories with well rounded characters without foul four letter words

Not enough progression

The story is ok-ish, but after the first book I really wished for more progression of the characters, story and world building.

In the first book the MC was hamstrung due to his unfortunate situation, but we had an interplay between the MC and two captains, each with their own motivation. Add in some pretty high-action situations and the story was pretty decent.

In this book, one of those two characters falls away and we are left with a MC that seems unwilling or unable to muster any motivation of his own, in a situation where he has a lot of freedom. There is also a lot less action in this story, It feels like there would be plenty of time to reflect what happened to the characters over the course of the first book and set out in some way. But the characters seem almost distracted by small slights, even after what they went through in the first book.

There is no real progression in plot, character development or in the story arc. I kept reading to see if something would happen, but I just lost interest, the MC flips between angry, indignant and indifferent but does not address his own morals or point of view. The plot is lost and the interesting world set up in the first book hardly makes it into this book.

In short, we don't get to know where the MC stands, 2/3 into this book the story complete stagnates and revolves around petty squabbles while the world around them seems to maybe get worse? I got bored while reading, stopped.

A Good second book

I enjoyed this book. I thought that the good plot established in the first book was taken forward in a satisfying manner. I enjoyed seeing the characters develop. I read the first book on a Kindle so this was my first time listening to it. I enjoyed the narrator’s performance.

Looking forward to seeing where the author goes with this...

Spoiler Warning...


I felt very sorry for Hopper, (Harper?) I felt he had a very raw deal.