Heirs of Empire

Dahak, Book 3

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's Summary

Restoring the empire that had been destroyed 45 years earlier, Emperor Colin finds problems in the genocidal Achuutani and in his children, Sean and Harriet, who have been marooned on a hostile planet. 

©1996 David Weber (P)2020 Recorded Books

Missing chapter 28

This recording is.missing chapter 28 so the story feels choppy. It also a really good chapter to pull some elements together. i have the book so and had to go read it to male it come together. dont bother with this recording until audible gets it complete.

Not the full book

Moronically abridged version, I presume the author has no role in the process. The entire battle of Yorktown was cut out.

Abridged?

Someone else mentioned this was an abridged version, so my perception may be skewed by noticing that before reading, but it does seem like a sizeable battle that was lead up to, and then constantly referred to, is just.. missing. It could be that the author left the battle itself out and just let the lead up and references to it fill in the blanks, but that seems like it would be an odd choice. Subsequently, the entire crescendo of that storyline also seems to be either absent or just another odd choice to build up for half the book only to resolve abruptly. Like.. super abruptly. Half a paragraph at most. Like, imagine going through the Lord of the Rings series and right before the final, decide-all battle it just cut to one of the characters sitting at home a year or 2 older and his buddy walked in and says "Glad that stuff all worked out a year or 2 ago! The end." Honestly, I'm probably going to have to pick up the print version just to find out what the deal is.

Oh, and the same narrator from the first 2 books still hasn't figured out how to properly.. I don't know.. read punctuation? Judge tempo?.. something.

All I know is that there is a similar length, waaaay too long pause

every 3-4 words that would typically

convey a new speaker/paragraph/chapter/idea, but it happens

continuously.

This may not be sooo bad, except that

since the pauses are so long and similar, the entire book makes you pay

incredibly close attention to insure the action is properly being followed nearly

word by word rather than any type of natural flow.

Not abridged chapter 27 is there.

If you read through the reviews you’ll see some people saying this is an abridged version of the book or clarifying that it is missing a chapter. That issue has been resolved and the entire book is now there.


As usual David Weber gets five stars for plot, characterization the whole 9 yards and so far the readers for the series are really good.

not actually unabridged

so... I have this book hard copy. You claim that this is an Unabridged audio book. Yet you have deliberately removed chapter 27. The battle of Yortown. If this is suposed to be unabridged please update the recording to provide that chapter since its obvious that the recording artist did read it. I not thennplease remove the false advertiaing that this is Unabridged.

Amazing

Space opera doesn't do this justice. Dastardly plots, betrayals, traitors and heroes. Thoroughly enjoyable. Dahaks continuum is amazing.

If you like to be depressed ... this one's for you

I've enjoyed David Weber series and have read almost all his work. I've recently re-listened to the entire Honor Harrington series. Great stories and a great writer!

Dahak 3 was such a downer in story and tone that I couldn't finish it. Yet, I enjoyed the first 2 books.

But there was just one more "episode" in Book 3 that appalled me.

It was almost if the author was thinking "Yes, there was a lot of pain and death in the first two books ... but you haven't felt the real pain and sorrow until NOW!"

David you were correct. I couldn't go on and finish the book after I read that section.

Missing Chapter ruined the book.

My favorite chapter in the book was missing from the recording... Really disappointing... Maybe they will fix it?

Great Adventure and excellent series.

The recording is missing chapter 28 which is important to the story. Need to fix it.

Basically a rough draft of the "Safehold" series

This is basically a rough draft of the "Safehold" series. I remember reading this as a kid, and then reading the Safehold books and thinking that it seems too familiar. I'm glad the story was expanded!