Allies and Enemies: Fallen

Allies and Enemies Series, Book 1

De: Amy J. Murphy

Narrado por: Erin Bateman

Fight. Survive. Repeat. The rules of a soldier are simple.

Born into service of the Regime, Commander Sela Tyron is about as subtle as a hammer. To hammers, any problem can look like a nail, but things aren't always that easy. When Sela is abandoned with her team on a planet full of insurrectionists, things get complicated.

A daredevil rescue by her commanding officer reaps deadly consequences, forcing Sela to choose between the only life she's ever known and the fate of the man she's duty-bound to protect.

Her whole life was a lie. And that's the good news.

Shirking a life of privilege, Erelah Veradin dreamt of building spaceships and exploring the stars in the service of the Regime. When a monstrous truth about her true heritage is revealed, Erelah finds herself at the unwilling center of a scheming mastermind's bid for power.

Suit up. Time to join the fight.

Praise for Allies and Enemies: Fallen

"Plenty of kick-assery with a refreshing gender reversal." (Seven Days VT)

"A solid SF tale. It has a nice layered storyline with a relatively fast paced plot...everything you would want in a SF suspense space opera." (Midwest Book Review, Feb 2017)

©2015 Amy J. Murphy (P)2018 Amy J. Murphy

Fantastic military space opera with women leads

“Allies and Enemies: Fallen: Allies and Enemies Series, Book 1” is a terrific sci-fi story with great narration!

The book opens in the middle of battle action and never slows down! This is not a lesfic story, but the hetero interests and actions are light and definitely fade-to-black. That’s not to say the story is all action with little focus on characters. Indeed, the many characters are well crafted and interesting, it’s just that romance and sex are a very minor part of the story. Staying alive…now that’s much more part of the story for everyone!

In the tradition of all well-done space operas, we are presented with an all-powerful “Regime” which, err, discourages any individuality. There are clear caste systems, corrupt politicians, sycophants, and OMG an evil villain to put all other evil villains to shame. Seriously, Darth Vader is a boy scout considered to Tristic!! Well, ok, boy scouts are in the news for villainy of their own, but work with me here.

MC Sela Tyron is a “breeder”…a warrior class grunt who is determined to protect her Captain: Jon Veradin. And NOT to fall in love or lust with her superior. Nope. Not.going.to.happen. Perhaps not. Jon, it turns out, must learn a surprise or two of his own, as must his sister, Erelah.

“Allies and Enemies” is a fantastic military sci-fi story featuring strong women leads. Lots of action with plenty of creepy sci-fi bodysnatcher stuff that you may lose sleep…at least to finish the book! 5*…things only get better than this book when it’s lesfic!

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

My rating and my review was not in anyway affected by my having been provided a review copy.

A Really Good Story

Great Sci Fi book.

It started out a little slow, but it really picked up and kept me going. The plot was great, the characters were great.
There were plenty of details to make it seem real, just a great story.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Returned

note to author: when readers are introduced to a character who is bleeding to death in the first scene or so, it's not a good time to spend two chapters on backstory and then just pass them off, pretending it was dealt with. Then to go into a religious argument.

Sorry I didn't want to stick around to see if the story was going to get better

The book takes an hour to get into. Excited for the second book

Took a bit to get centered. Then the story was interesting and compelling. Enjoyable and ready for book too.

4.75★s

Ahh what a great start to a new series! Now I will warn you, it took me 2 times to get past the first couple of chapters but that may have been me. You have to concentrate on everything that is happening. Also, the book does alternate between POVs and, of course, genders. The narrator, unfortunately, didn't attempt to make any vocal changes to indicate them. :-/ 

Once into the story, it really hooked me in! :-D It was original and had several twists and turns. And then bam, it was over! :-( 

I was frustrated with Ty often but had to remind myself that she was raised to behave and believe a certain way. Her sharpness, I believe was often when she didn't know how to properly deal with situations. Jon, dear Jon, he was harder for me to connect with. Perhaps, because he was a secondary character overshadowed by a strong lead. Not a bad thing! Just difficult for me to nail down. He does have a wonderful, loving & forgiving heart. =)

World building was okay but the ending was great!! :-D


My star ratings include these 5 elements:

1★ story line
1★ engaging characters
.75★ use of world building/descriptions
1★ the ending
1★ narration or editing

"I was given this free review copy/audiobook at *MY* request and have voluntarily left this review."