Asbaran Solutions

The Revelations Cycle, Book 2

By: Chris Kennedy

Narrated by: E. M. Carberry

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

Nigel Shirazi was first in line for the chairmanship of Asbaran Solutions, one of the prominent "Four Horsemen" mercenary companies. First in line...until his drinking and temper caused him to fail out of college and get disinherited by the family.

Now he leads the life of a playboy, enjoying a stipend from the family to stay out of the way. But someone is out to get his family, and Nigel is all that stands between the hidden enemy and the destruction of Asbaran Solutions and the Shirazi family.

Nigel will have to learn to control himself if he's going to take the reins of the company, figure out who's behind the vendetta against Asbaran, and work out a way to stop them. But they've taken his sister hostage, and that makes him a very, very angry man!

©2017 Chris Kennedy (P)2017 Chris Kennedy

entropy not entrofee

Would you try another book from Chris Kennedy and/or E. M. Carberry?

No i dont understand how they change the writer on a set of books but this guy really fell short. as for the narrator what a joke every voice was the same like he didn't care in the least. the narrator also had no idea how words are read. the word that was used the most and bothered me the most was entropy he said it as entrofee over and over might be small but it took me out of the story every time.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

by having no inflection no emotion nothing. every person sounded like every other person. also he didn't know how to pronounce many words and that is jarring

Good follow up to the first book in the series.

If I have one criticism, it is that this book is darker than the first.

Great book. Bad reader.

Great book.

E.M. Carberry is dry, monotone, and has a problem mispronouncing a lot of even simple words. Additionally, there are obvious breaks in the reading that sound as if it was recorded at different locations. I don't see how this is a professional product.

Good hard-edged military sci-fi

I really enjoyed this book, even though I could relate a little more to the character of Jim Cartwright than Nigel. I thought this was a solid offering in the series, and the narrator had a nice clear voice, however, I would have appreciated it more if he had attempted to change accents for the different characters.

Good read but could have gone into more details in certain areas

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and how the hero like the previous book Cartwright cavaliers is not the typical character. I would have like to have seen a more elaborate plot for this book but it is overall still a good book

Excellent five stars

This book brings the whole series together. I would recommend this book for anyone. I give it 5 stars .

The Four Horsemen, each one redefining Mercenary!

Author Kennedy has found a quasi militaristic group that threatens the Marines for honor, blood, and guts with his series appropriately named the Four Horsemen. Asbaran Solutions is the second of the four and though shorter than the first, it is a full compliment of conspiracy, plotting, wild solutions, and bloody battles with no survivors good and bad. Unlike other listens, this one does not sugarcoat the blood for hire and no hero's abound. Survivors, a meager few, are creatures filled with a bitter need for vengeance and I certainly hope that somewhere in the future, a book brings it to light so we all can enjoy it. I've not listened to Mr. Carberry before but his performance was as dramatic and arresting as this second of the Four Horseman required. I'm sure that anything less than his talented narration would have diminished this listen. Overall a credit very well spent.

A bad narrator ruined it

I'd give this book a 2.5 stars if I could.

Nobody is kidding themselves into thinking this book is the peak of military sci-fi. However, what could have been a fun listen was ruined by the narrator. The problem is that he doesn't change his voice when different characters are speaking. Even when the perspective of the story is told from a woman's point of view the narrator only changes his pitch to a slightly higher tone. You can easily get confused as to who is speaking and several times I had to back up and listen to a passage again to figure out what was going on. Luckily none of the other books in this series have this narrator because I genuinely enjoyed the first book.

meh story, great performance

a very flat trope filled story that doesn't leverage anything other than luck in the universe to ccomplish the goals of the characters. boring premise strung together by haphazard events.

performance is great though! well picked for the voicing.

Story was like a 10 year old wrote it

Don't get me started on the performance, there was almost no inflection in his voice. The story itself was just... Bad. No comparison to the previous story. The characters made few decisions that make sense and they didn't feel developed at all. They make the same exact mistakes throughout the story. The story itself repeats itself, many of the scenes feel recycled. I'll never read a book by this author or read by the this narrator again.