Forget Nothing

By: Jason Anspach, Michelle C. Meyers

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's Summary

She Chose the Hardest Way

The daughter of a Legion war hero, fighting was in Andien Broxin's blood. But the battles Republic marines face on strange and alien worlds are a far cry from the vaunted, brutal, no-holds-barred conflicts fought at the edge of the galaxy by the elite legionnaires. 

Until a devastating war erupts right in the Republic’s stellar backyard. 

Newly stationed on a mid-core planet being harassed by terrorist revolutionaries, Andien and her fellow “hullbusters” find themselves right in the middle of a desperate fight for survival. All their training, standards, discipline - all the hard paths - have led to this. If she and her fellow marines are to come out of this alive, Andien will have to find out who she truly is...and what she can become. 

Best-selling military science fiction author Jason Anspach and USMC/US Army veteran Michelle C. Meyers explore the rigors of combat, survival, and the human will in this edge-of-your-seat account set in the Galaxy’s Edge universe.

©2020 Galaxy's Edge, LLC (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.

Loved this story, but:

this was a powerful story of a glimpse into wartime military life... Absolutely loved the premise.. I could. However, not get over the botched reading of the word corpsman. I'm sorry to say it brought me back to the reality that the reader was not a marine or a soldier because of it. I often was immersed in the imagery and feeling of the moment and then, there it is, "corpSman" and it messed it all up for me.

Good back story

I liked her back story. However the narrator's pronunciation of Corpsman is wrong. The "s" is silent along with the "p" which she got correct. ie, like in the Marine Corps. It made my ears cringe every time, only because I am a retired US Navy Hospital Corpsman.

Super SJW

Really didn't care for the SJW narrative they pushed, it changed the lore. Didn't appreciate the SJW sexist view, they're pushing just because it never shows it the rest of the books.

Fairly uninteresting

I guess one of my pet peeves is horrible accents and narrators that should not attempt something they suck at. The example would be this narration of a character who is supposed to be Scottish? I am guessing because it fades in and out of a bad Irish to a bad Scottish accent. Other than that, the book was kinda boring. I could not get past the first chapter. No wonder it was free...

Forgot Nothing

Ok. I’m biased. I’m absolutely in love with this universe. Galaxy’s Edge is amazing. I wasn’t expecting too much from a free book....but damn this novella is kellhorned good. This universe keeps getting better and better and Andinee and her Hullbusters make another fine addition.
KTF

Freaking Loved This Book

This book takes an honest look at what it means for a woman to attempt to fight/train among elite soldiers, and doesn't cut corners. As a woman, I appreciate the realism of the struggle. Loved the characters, story, and the narrator's performance. Top marks, everyone!

Galaxies Edge prequel novella to GI Jane book?

Decent stand alone novella in the Galaxies Edge universe. I’ve only heard a few of the books and they range a bit from extreme military sci-fi to Star Wars fantasy action. This one landed fully on the military sci-fi end. Other than taking place on another planet and referencing aliens, this could easily have been told as a modern day earth military piece.

The story follows marine Major Andien Broxin through the excellent narration of Khristine Hvam. This is the first military book I’ve heard her narrate and I was surprised at how well I took to it, especially since I sometimes find her voice a bit nasal. I liked her accent for the supporting character of Legionaire Lt. Owens. I may need to go back and check out more of the GE books; if Lt. Owens is in them, I’d like to see more of his story too. Or, since this could be a short prequel setting up Andien’s future with the Legionaires, perhaps this bodes well for a full length book with the both of them- not as a romance, mind you. I quite liked that Andien was a woman, and the story accounted for that... while not using her gender for some sort of romance plot line.

Fans will enjoy the hallmark Legionnaires and their mythical abilities, along with the inside catchphrases and jokes that bond listeners in patriotism and battle pride (KTF!). I liked that, compared to some of the others in the GE series, this one contained military action without going overboard on the politics, point vs enlisted commentary, or military porn vibe. Yes, it’s always a bit of a cheat to create future cuss words to get around current slang, but the story was more enjoyable without a machine gunning of Fx and other profanity throughout.

The ratio of action to story worked well for me, except for the slightly overlong political negotiation piece. Overall a solid and diverting free military action story, with a sci-fi side to boot.

9/10 should read

I love this book, it hit me and all my sweet spot. The only reason I didn’t give it a 10 out of 10 was the miss pronunciation of the word Corpsman. The “S” is silent

Great back story

An excellent back story for two characters in the main series. I'm excited to see what comes next in this side series and how it ties in with future novels!

Only complaint I have has pronunciation of a species that seems to be a running gag at this point with all the different ways it has been pronounced by all the narrators.

Love the tie-in to the rest of the series!

Love the tie-in to the rest of the series! A great addition! Can't wait till the next one!

Brilliant story, worse Scottish accent ever!!

I love the Galaxy Edge Universe, I was looking forward to this one. The one thing that grated was her bad, awful attempt at Alec Owen's Scottish accent, it sounded Irish, East European and some other previously unheard of accent.
please Narrators, if you can't do a passable accent, Please don't do one at all!!

It killed a couple of hours

I'm not entirely sure the story knows what it wants to be. I can't say it's your typical military sci-fi. which is the audience that it's pitched at. It came over more of a portrayal of a strong confident woman overcoming a sexist, misogynistic system.

I'm something of an old dinosaur that reads a lot of military sci-fi and I can't say it rocked my world. I found it somewhat average for the genre. Certainly not the worst book I've read. As said, it killed a couple of hour listening to it at work.

If you are looking for a story of how a strong confident woman competes in and overcomes a male dominated system it's for you. I'm not so sure if you just like military sci-fi.

At times it felt like the authors were trying too hard portray their knowledge of military acronyms.

The elephant in the room. The Sottish accent. I actually found it funny, rather that annoying. It thought it was something of a cross between Scottish and German. But it did give me a smile.

So to sum up. For a couple of quid it was OK it killed a couple of hours. Not the best book I've listened to but certainly not the worst.

Great addition

To the GE stable of books, really enjoyed this book and the narration was good except for the accent given to Owens! that was achingly painful to listen to

Forget this

After listening to RC Bray in the Tin Man I immediately got this expecting more of the same as it’s supposed to be the next in series.
There is no mention of the tin man in this.
This story is totally boring, no tug at the heart strings, no sardonic comedy just some woman droning on and on and on.
On the plus side she does a good impression of ground keeper willy’s Asian cousin.

Terrible narration

I like the galaxy's edge series but I gave up, the narration and accents are just awful.

A complete dirge with awful narration....

Nope, no and hell no!

Inane polictical mish mash with woeful narration. The Scottish character first starts off with a russian accent, then slides in to an Irish accent before finally setting on a cross between Scottish and Irish!

Awful Naration

About to stick a sharp object into my eardrum to make it stop.

I lasted less than 5mins before moving to next book....but will not start it if it is the same narrator.

Great if you like this stuff!!!!

Great, like I said, but narrator, listen up- dreadful accents! Leave 'em out next book

Please don't let the narrator do anymore accents!

Great story but the please just let us imagine the accents of the characters in the story, tell me they are Scottish or Irish (I really was not sure).

Kristine can tell a great story but this does take away from the overall performance.

Full of tropes...

... Yet still a good listen. While a lot of the book feels a bit cliche with all the woman in the military tropes, the performance was great und the writing and dialogues decent. Not as good as Tin-man though. Not by far.