Arkadian Skies

Fallen Empire, Book 6

By: Lindsay Buroker

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

With the man who kidnapped her daughter imprisoned aboard her ship, Captain Alisa Marchenko is closer than ever to reuniting her family. But her new guest has been in a coma for weeks, with the secret to her daughter's location locked away in his mind. She must find a way to sneak him into a state-of-the-art hospital on Arkadius, a planet in the heart of Alliance territory. Not an easy task when she and the cyborg Leonidas, her most trusted ally, are wanted by the Alliance army.

As if that mission weren't daunting enough, the Staff of Lore has appeared on the planet. As has the man who stole it: Alisa's father.

©2016 Lindsay Buroker (P)2017 Podium Publishing

Off kilter and unnecessary filler

Another book that barely moves the needle on the series arcs. Having lost the spear, this book finds the crew searching for (a) Alisa’s daughter (plot since book 1), (b) the spear, and (c) Leonidas’s libido. It’s like each book adds things to search for, while resolving nothing. That’s usually okay because there’s hijinks and humor. However, in this installment, it felt like all the humor concerns juvenile sex jokes. Everyone, even new characters, join in with innuendos and euphemisms.

The tone also goes a bit off kilter here, with the first use of an F bomb than I can recall, and at least one S. Then there’s an entire city destroyed and mind controlled people dying as canon fodder, and our crew shrug it off within seconds. Perhaps that’s because six books in and there’s only redshirt death. For that matter, neither the good guys nor the bad guys have much depth (pop quiz: what purpose does Beck serve except for his comedic cooking schtick?). This book adds Alisa’s father and reveals a Big Bad… and yet both lack personality. The shallowness of it all made for a bland listen. Fine as a matinee sale purchase. At least the next book forecasts some penultimate progress before book 8’s Endgame.

These are great stories

So I am on book 6 now and I have to say I have really enjoyed these stories. The characters are great, each one of them brings something to the group that makes them so much better together. If only people with different backgrounds and goals could find a way to work together IRL as these characters do. Not that they don’t argue or even fight but they still come together when the group is threatened. Like family. Well done!

Meh

I wish the characters and story were developing more. This was a bit too repetitive of the previous books.

Fantastic!

The love story ramps up a bit more between Alisa and Leonitus in this book in a heartwarming way. I love how the characters continue to be developed and the story expands in ways unexpected. Kate Reading does a fantastic job capturing each voice and personality.

Another Home run!

what can I add. I love this series. I think it is hilarious how much the engineer sounds and acts like Phyllis Diller...a reference for those my age. But c' mon.. be gentler to the Ol'Man. He saved your butt!!!!
Crazy lovers, A narcissist twerp in your head, and erectile dysfunction... WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE!!! ( but possibly, could we limit the LGBTABC courteous side story? so tired of it, everywhere...)

I want to be Alisa

I don't see how I missed this author for so many years of my life.
Humor, action, and great characters. I love this series
If I could be a fictional character, I would be Alisa with her humor and snark. . and quick comebacks. Oh, what i could do with this superpower !!

Loved it!!!

Very interesting story with plenty of plot twists. Can’t wait to find out how the next mission progresses.

New to this!!

Enjoyed the humor and storyline once I knew the characters as well as the individual weaknesses.

Fun adventures

Star crossed love and erectile dysfunction. The search and relationship continues. I love Kate Redding’s performance.

Love Lindsay’s story telling

Lindsay has well developed plots and characters. I love how she builds a story around each character. I’m addicted!

Sex starved Captain seems to forget about her missing daughter quiet a lot!

Captain Alisa Marchenko primary focus in this story is getting banged by a cyborg and then somewhere in the background there is something about her kidnapped daughter……….. priorities.
Completely lost any interest in the captains story now and will stop the series here, what a waste of time.
Most of this story is good but the amnesia about her kidnapped daughter and primary focus being on getting a cyborgs dick working! It all started to turn into space erotica fluff and just got really boring and repetitive.
Waste of potential for the series

Still fun but needs to move forward

Still has everything we love in the book with its wit and charm, fun diverse characters (although male characters sound very similar, which isn’t a problem for me personally) and very intriguing storyline. Would like a bit more progression of story but I hope book 7 brings this :) Great book

Enjoyed, but not as much as previous books

The story is slightly losing its momentum for me, and I’d be much happier if the books were much longer. Normally I wouldn’t waste credits on books this short, but the free omnibus got me hooked. Still only drawback is the narrator’s slightly dubious male characters, but her female characters are great, she does the wit and sarcasm perfectly, I’m often walking down the road grinning to myself.

The adventures continues

On the chase for the staff and kidnapping admirals, our heroine somehow archives the impossible

Awesome

I have really enjoyed this series, the narrator is brilliant the story is too. Recommend.

loved it

loved it. Great series. brilliant performance by the narrator. would definitely recommend this book and all the ones before it.

Cracking series

Characters are great, voice acting great, story great. Can't wait to start the next in the series. Fab space romp😁👍

Another Cracker

This story keeps getting better and better, I don't want it to end. but I am desperate to find out what happens.

gripping and deep. loved it

loved the first few books and couldn't wait to get this one. it was over too quickly, I didn't want it to end.
love the characters and the relationships between them.

onto next one now

Nice read

Nice read but there are times the captain comes across as completely incompetent but still