Blood of Heroes

The Ember War, Book 3

By: Richard Fox

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's Summary

A peaceful planet needs a miracle to survive an alien onslaught. It's got the Strike Carrier Breitenfeld.

The Xaros, a galaxy-wide scourge of murderous drones, have their sights set on the planet Takeni. Captain Isaac Valdar volunteers his ship to defend the innocent civilians and evacuate everyone he can. Pressed by an alien fleet in space and a horrifying foe on the surface, the Breitenfeld must risk everything to save the doomed populace.

©2015 Richard Fox (P)2016 Podium Publishing

Felt cheated

although this is a well written and good sci-fi book, it is obvious that whoever just chopped the story up to sell more books. the books end at unusual places with little if any suspense.

Excellent, possibly, probably better that 1&2

you can't go wrong with the author and narrator combo, I have read the first two and this book in less than two days and am diving into 4 and it's almost 2a.m. it will be time to cook my wife and kid breakfast soon, right as book for starts ramping up I suspect!

awesome!

I don't know how Luke Daniel's does it, but somehow he has the voice of 50 different people, I find myself forgetting the book is narrated by one person, he is amazing!

the story is amazing! I can not wait till book 4!

Oh yeah.

As I wrote on my review of The first couple of the audiobooks of this series, reviewing a series is a tricky thing because you really don’t know what’s coming next and how good will it end but as of now no complaints whatsoever, the author imagination is amazing if not more then.
Incredible universe with so many worlds and different aliens that I have no idea where does he gets the ideas, truly amazing!

Narration of every person or alien is so perfectly done that you can tell who is talking just by the voice without needing to be told who is talking or screaming, the only reason names or races are mentioned are a must because many are reading the books not listening is my understanding.

Any way this third audiobook does not disappoint what so ever and have my full recommendations.

I love this series!

Action packed (with fantastic narration from Luke Daniels as usual. ) loveable Characters and vivid descriptions bring this book to life.

Great follow up!

If you liked the 1 and 2 combo, then you will like book 3! Characters and voices match and their personalities followed, the narrator does an amazing job making them feel like real people.

Another great addition to the series

A must read if you enjoyed the adventures of the Breitenfeld in the previous books. Blood of Heroes closely follows their unsanctioned rescue mission of a planet threatened by an imminent Xaros invasion.
This chapter in the series also gives us another small glimpse into the nature of the Xaros.
And of course, Luke Daniels knocks the performance out of the park again.

Stunning

As always, it drew me in and submerged my imagination and forgot that I'm still working

Best Darn Military Sci-Fi Series Out There

The Ember War Saga is what all military sci-fi books hope to be. Ship to ship space battles headed by a gritty skipper, salty marines kicking alien butt, the psychological aspects of war and possible extinction, the depths of human depravity and glory. All wrapped up in a shiny wrapper of some solid science of what could be and tied with a bow of political manipulation and power mongering. Luke Daniels, as always, gives a stellar performance. This saga is top shelf.

Great story and smooth yet serious voices

I liked this book and expect to listen to the rest of the series soon.

exciting but too short for a credit

fantastic instalment to the series but this was short for a whole credit they should bring in half credit stories reconsidering if it's worth carrying on with this story

Enjoyable

Enjoyed it but dont be fooled by length of book. The last 1 hour 10mins is a preview of book 4, a bit on a con.

American trying a Scotish accent LOL

Good story and pace but the speaker struggles with some of the accents but is gives me a laugh.

Loved it.

fantastic, well built world.

engaging throughout but the non-american accents do leave something to be desired :)

great book

I have listed to all of them they are brilliant I highly recommended great story and there are other books to go with the series 😃

The racism gets worse…

And *not* the truly offensive Scots accent… the narrator is improving book by book, until I expect his accents to be about average towards the end.

No, this book is let down by being so ‘white saviour’ (except with people with beaks) that it’s offensive. The total racial superiority of human warfare is something of a given - this is a setting where 90% of the galaxy had been consumed by a species that comfortably seeds every single system with at least one autonomous, immortal remote drone, and humanity somehow survive the attack, and then lead the fight back through the principle of being OUTRAGEOUSLY American. This, you can kind of buy into. But it’s overblown from the minute the humans arrive and the aliens, despite practicing warfare, have never practiced defending their own homes.

That would be tolerable, but then the author makes the humans-in-funny masks… a target for his ‘look how amazingly perfect and humanitarian the heroes are’ lectures - the true height comes when humans lecture and abuse a race that had survived hundreds or thousands of years of sunlight travel for their method of choosing who goes first (the eldest and most skilled, as indicated by rank of attainment within a complete survivalist society) who are, for some reason, portrayed as being middle aged, robed and ‘scholarly’ and then physically assault the leaders and demand that ‘women and children’ go first, explicitly explaining that the women and children look ‘desperate’.

The series is supposed to be about conflicting hard choices, I get that, I don’t even like the Dotari as a species - they’re kind of uninventive and seem very much like humans in masks in later series where they feature.

But having the humans fly in to save the day, having had the aliens be so pathetic as to lose their entire generation fleet bar this planet to the bad guys, and have a society that we’re supposed to cheer on getting ripped apart was only not offensive in 1904.

I couldn’t be bothered to listen to the final few hours, I skipped to the dramatic ending and continued on - I’d advise people that they can basically skip this book entirely, as it doesn’t contribute to ‘Ember Wars’ lore you need for many of the *constant* covert references and in-jokes in later books.

You could do worse than skipping through all the scenes with the Iron Hearts in, if you really want to have a rough idea of the plot. They are, as ever, Armour.

not bad

entertaining enough story but can be flat and easy to get lost in. will continue on as it is easy listening

Entertaining but not too thought provoking

Have listened to better tales so I may not continue with this series. The story seems to have lost its way somehow.

ok

it's an ok book but there were times when I wished it would end soon. I found that I got lost and did not really know what was happening. thr performer is as usual amazing and without him I probably would not have known who was saying what