Earth Rising

By: Daniel Arenson

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's Summary

It's all-out war.

Our cities fall. Millions die. The scum, these cruel aliens from deep space, are determined to kill us all.

So we must kill them.

Humanity musters its greatest fleet. Thousands of starships rally. Millions of soldiers deploy. For Earth to stand a chance, we must invade the aliens' home world. We must destroy their planet.

Before they destroy ours.

Earth's fleet flies through space. We fly toward millions of enemy ships. We fly to almost certain death. This will be the hour humanity falls...or the hour of our greatest victory.

©2016 Daniel Arenson (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

eh...

this book was... just ok. without spoiling I can't really say much but... the climax was trite and the characters were forgettable. I kept hoping that certain things would come to fruition and I was sadly disappointed. it seems that at the end the author was building up to another story but... eh. nah, I'm good.

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The war for Earth's future continues

The gloves are off, and the Human Defense Force prepares an all-out invasion of the Scum homeworld, Abaddon. Leading the attack and tasked with killing the Scum emperor are Corporals Marco Emery, Addy Linden and Lailani Marita de la Rosa. The platoon is again commanded by Lt. Einav Ben-Ari who has filled squads with STC veterans of Scum attacks and hive invasions, Sergeants all.
The planning, preparation and training for the mass attack against Abaddon take place on the rogue planet, Nightwall, headquarters of the Space Territorial Command. As the fleet assembles, hundreds of thousands of spacecraft, from the L16 Fighting Firebirds to massive battleships and transports, carrying millions of combined HDF and STC troops, prepare to battle against hundreds of millions of Scum in the air and on the ground of Abaddon. Oh, and add in one Lt. Kemi Abasi flying one of the Firebirds.
The gripping combat action, the fantastic, exotic sceneries and the richly believable characters continue to the depth that only Daniel Arensen can provide. This third saga in the Earth Rise series is the best so far. I've fallen in love with the characters, especially Addy with all her bravado and aggression, masking the frightened child who watched her parents die, eaten by Scum. The training and combat descriptions are thorough and frankly terrifying, so well written that I laugh, cry, ache and bleed along with Marco, Addy and Lailani.
I can highly recommend this book to all, especially lovers of sci-fi action. I know you'll enjoy the book and the series as much as I did! And now the hard part - waiting for the next book in the Earthrise series, Earth Fire.

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Struggled through this one

What did you like best about Earth Rising? What did you like least?

The action was fairly constant, which was nice. Some poor terminology. I'm a stickler for this. Aircraft have instrument panels, cars have dashboards. Aircraft have control sticks, video games have joy sticks.

What was most disappointing about Daniel Arenson’s story?

I found that the characters would face seemingly insurmountable odds, yet still win. Didn't make sense.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

I liked the consistency of the character voicing. Some of the dialogue was corny, and tiresome.

Was Earth Rising worth the listening time?

Only if one has made it through the first two.

Any additional comments?

Had I known then, what I know now, I wouldn't have started the trilogy.

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Repetition - good for learning, bad as story plot

Basically a decent idea for story. Honestly though Chapters 20-23 were so repetitive; at first tiresome but progressed into irksome and finally painful. Author I know you can do better please DO better!

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great narrator makes a bad book ok.

struggled to finish. all three so far have been narrated wonderfully but the story is just, well, lacking. NOT up to the author's usual.

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Earthrise book 3

really enjoyed this book and the first two as well found these great to listen to.

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great addition

Doesn't have the feel.of sheer terror the 2nd book.had but gives a much broader sense of the war.

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3rd book was great as well

Another great book with excellent reading. I'm looking forward to the release of the next book

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Filler and Gaps

I really enjoyed the first two books of the series this one however got weird and left things unfilled with anything other than random thoughts that continued until reader or listener was so tired of hearing them.

Additionally there seem to be large gaps in the story I kept going and searching to see if there was a prequel series as there seem to be another story being told.

I am about to start on the next book and I hope it is more like the first two.

Massive invasion to the Allen's planet!

Earth Rising
Earthrise, Book 3
By: Daniel Arenson
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
I love this series! Great world building, well developed characters, hear dialogue, strong emotions, terrifying aliens, wonderful plot, unpredictable situations that pop up, and a touch of romance. All of this besides the terrific imagination and creativity! Well planned down to the slightest detail!
In this book the is a massive force to invade the Allen's world to kill the king. The have a secret weapon to find him. Secrets are discovered, Powerful book!
Jeffrey Kafer performs perfectly!

Great book

Great book series I can't wait to listen to the next one great story love Jeffrey kafer i highly recommend listening to this book series

We will rise like Phoenix, again and again

Anther great book from the series, it’s all about survival and fighting. You can’t escape the scum only fight them. The book keeps you interested all the way until the end. I recommend this book as it was a pleasure reading it. A very good audiobook.