Deathstalker Rebellion: Being the Second Part of the Life and Times of Owen Deathstalker

Deathstalker, Book 2

By: Simon R. Green

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Owen Deathstalker - outlawed, with a price on his head and the blood of a mighty warrior lineage in his veins - had no choice but to embrace a dangerous destiny. With nothing to lose, only he had the courage to take up arms against Queen Lionstone XIV.

Now as he gathers his unlikely allies - the legendary washed-up hero Jack Random, the beautiful pirate Hazel d'Arc, the original Deathstalker long since presumed dead, and the alien Hadenmen whose purposes no human can discern - the eyes of the downtrodden are upon him while the freedom of a galaxy hangs in the balance....

©1996 Simon R. Green (P)2017 Tantor

Love this author and this story!

I fell in love with Mr Green’s dark side series and which happily led me to his other works and that is how I ended up with Deathstalker. I love this series! I love it when I find an author that I totally dig only to learn that said author has a metric-shit-ton of awesome work to consume!

I love the overall story progression as well as the character development in this 2nd book.
The voice actor is wonderful and I love the voices he assigns to each character (makes it totally easy to follow!).
I just finished listening to book #2 and I already purchased book 3 and I am totally going to start it as soon as I am done with this review!

I am done!
In to Desthstalker War!

Thank you!
May I please have some more?!

Another great segment

Really like this story. Although there are some issues with silly character names, I think the story stands up pretty well. I'm looking forward to the next book. Well worth the credit!

Attention Grabber from Imaginative Author

This book was a fantastic read and a great continuation of the Deathstalker Series. I'm looking forward to reading Deathstalker: War, the next book in the series, immediately. Simon R. Green has been a favorite for a decade of my life. He continues to impress me with his imaginative ability. If for the obvious reasons, you decide to start another series by Simon R. Green, Something From The Nightside is a good place to start.

Side characters done right

the side characters got more time than the main character and it was a better story for it the narrator changed voices for some characters to a great effect and showed that he has very good range.

Much better than the first 🙌🏻

... and the first was quite good. The giant cast of characters get more attention in this installment which is what I found lacking in the first. Here we have the same level of love em, hate em and hmmm as before but the scenes that lead us along are much more interesting and multi layered. Definitely moving on in this series. Fabulous narration again 🤓

excellent book

great book. couldn't stop listening! can't wait to listen to the rest of the books.

Even Better than the First

Simon R Green cannot fail to impress. Every series starts out a bit janky, then it finds its stride and gets better with every installment. Excited for #3.

Good story, the reader is beginning to drone on

Enjoyable story, if you enjoyed the first, this will satisfy. However, I am finding that Mr. Jackson's voice is driving me mad. It just keeps droning, on, and on, and on, and on...etc. I kept stopping and skipping just to keep the storyline going. I didn't realize this while listening to book 2, but in book 3 its more obvious.

Fantastic Atmosphere and mind inspiration!!!

This book was very well narrated. The reader was excellent the way he allowed you to see the characters in full 3D color.

Great Second Installment

Rebellion firmly held my attention from start to finish. Its plot has more integrity (extreme literary license aside...) than Book 1. I enjoyed it more than the prequel (which I also liked). Most poignant are the passages describing encounters with alien forces. Less impressive are the swashbuckling scenes, though they still entertain greatly, as long as you don't take them too seriously.

It could have also done without direct reference to a particular religion or religious order of priests from the real world (for those of us who have many positive memories from the admirable priests we encountered from that order - centuries after the inquisition), it seems that the author could have foregone the incriminating cliches and at least come up with fictitious names and religious references.) In that aspect of the plot, the author demonstrates his inability to temper religious criticism by nuanced degrees, betraying his unqualified acceptance of stigmatization brought on by fixated media coverage.

Green, nonetheless, has a strong talent for dialogue in many ways, but the narrative tends to repeat itself with self referencing (e.g., "she was an investigator, after all...", etc.) a bit excessively. But what the heck, I really enjoyed Book 2 and will go straight for the next episode. Jackson's characterizations, as always, make the listener utterly unaware that it's a narrated audiobook - 1-man show (along with production/technical staff). Bravo.