Fear God and Dread Naught

Ark Royal, Book 8

By: Christopher G. Nuttall

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

On her last cruise, HMS Vanguard - the most powerful battleship in the Royal Navy - barely survived her encounter with a deadly new enemy. Now, with her commanding officer accused of everything from mutiny to dereliction of duty and her crew under a cloud, the Royal Navy doesn't quite know what to do with her.

But there's still a war on. And Vanguard must return to the front lines.

Assigned to a task force heading to assist humanity's alien allies, Vanguard and her crew find themselves caught in a deadly alien trap. Can they survive to turn the tables on their enigmatic foe? Or will their next encounter with the new enemies be their last?

©2016 Christopher G. Nuttall (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

He did it again!

All I can think to say is I really enjoyed this book and the series it is part of.

Great series

The narrator is one of the best. The series is fantastic and entertaining keep going

Keep them coming!!!

I really enjoy the development of the characters as well as the attention to technical detail. Thank you for a great experience!!!

Good story but drug down a bit...

I like this series but this one drag on a little too much about the internal dialogue stresses George was dealing with for my liking. And I swear to GOD I think about 50% of this novel is nothing but the phrase "message from the flag"! If repetitive phrases bother you then either bypass this book or at least go into it fully aware. It's one of my pet peeves and I'm not exaggerating one but about how often it's used. I'd say to make a drinking game if it but it may lead to trips to the ER.

The shame of it is that the actual story (remember that?), is solid and leaves us wanting more. But, you have to see it through a haze of overly dramatic foppish drama with Mrs Also A Royal and her life. It ends up kind of assassinating her character in my opinion because she starts out trying to be tough, then going on to do something cool, but the in-between part seems ham fisted at best.

If you're a rabid fan I'm sure you are used to this author by now. However me, as a casual fan was put off by this one.

Spading up the same turf over, and over, and over

I've never been in the military, but I have to wonder, does EVERY officer spend EVERY waking moment, and weigh EVERY decision in terms of how it will affect his or her career; and ponder EVERY situation in the context of their public school or academy experience like the officers in this (and the previous book in the series) seem to? It becomes tiresome after a while.

The storyline is interestingly enough, but the repetition makes it unlikely I'm going to sign up for any more books in the series.

A Return to What Made this Series Great

As the eighth in a series (if you haven't read the earlier ones you should obviously not start here) the question is: Has the series lost its Oommphh -- or should it continue? So I write this for those of you who have gotten this far, and would like an answer.

First, this book feels like a return to the first two installments which I enjoyed greatly. (if you did not read the original Ark Royal, do so!) More of the nuts and bolts of the ship, the people and the fleet actions. A couple of fine running battles as well. The narration, as always, is great. While there is no ultimate resolution (as befits a series) it did feel just a little like the setup for the next volume. But the expansion of known character and the introduction of new technologies was fun. I am again looking forward to the next book !

great story line

I have enjoyed the Ark Royal story line form the begaining and this new book has not disappointed me. I love the main charractor s.

Nuttall does it AGAIN!

Christopher G. Nuttall CONSISTENTLY brings fantastic works of Science Fiction to his fans! Ark Royal Lives on!

It's cool seeing stories like this played out from a British point of view... Usually it's "we Americans" that feature in Science Fiction, while other cultures are nonexistent, or "Enemies".... Nuttal routinely brings characters from other "Earth Countries", and even "Whole Countries" into his stories, without belittling them.. Nuttal often has "The Americans" as British Allies during battles, with a tip of his hat to 'American Technological ingenuity/inventions', and his characters even note that they are using the technology that they are SURE "The American's" wouldn't like others to know about, but "The American's" don't complain when the characters use/expose those technologies to defeat a foe when needed.

I am always left with the feeling that Nuttal, himself, admires his 'American Cousins' at least as strongly as Americans admire our British Cousins... It seems that even though America and Britain have our minor differences from time to time (as does every family), we know, without doubt, that we can depend on each other to always watch each others backs!

I DO wish that Nuttal would add more of his personal Commentary on world politics to the ends of more of his books, as he did in "The Barbarian Bride". I ALWAYS like listening to someone who KNOWS what they are talking about, and that can make uncanny logical deductions about future events "In Reality, affecting us Right Now"

Chris Nuttall Does It Again

As with this entire series, this is an excellent production with another great story in this series. Chris Nuttall is a master of the space opera.

keeps you coming back

it keeps you coming back with a little twist of a good idea. Extremely interesting is to perception of how the aliens work amongst themselves. it's always been a hamstring of any writers to make aliens more like humans so that we can understand them, but the truly be alien means we don't understand them.