• Mech Wars: The Complete Series

  • By: Scott Bartlett
  • Narrated by: Mark Boyett
  • Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (955 ratings)

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Mech Wars: The Complete Series

By: Scott Bartlett
Narrated by: Mark Boyett
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Publisher's summary

Humanity is tired of losing. Enter the mech.

Jake Price has always dreamed of joining the Darkstream military like his father before him. When he’s told his gaming scores are good enough to qualify him for a brand-new training program designed to find recruits talented enough to pilot humanity’s first mechs, he can hardly believe it.

He’s right to be doubtful. There are hundreds of other recruits competing for the same eight jobs, and they’re all as skilled as he is. Worse, the training instructor is an unhinged chief with a particular dislike for Jake.

But Jake refuses to give up, refuses to wash out, because humanity is facing its greatest threat yet. If someone doesn’t step up, it could all be over for the human species.

Contains the complete series:

  • Powered
  • Dynamo
  • Meltdown
  • Infliction
©2017-2018 Scott Bartlett (P)2018 Scott Bartlett

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Save yourself the time.

The story is sub par. It's break points are jarring. It's written as four books but each book ends at a fairly abitrary point. The structure of book seems like the author wrote one book and split it up. The conclusion is really weak and rushed with the last 30 minutes being packed with would be cliff hangers that just fall short. The characters are really one dimensional. You will pick up who the fodder characters are in minutes because they have virtually no characterization. Overall I would avoid this book. Narrator does a good job bringing some joy to a pretty bad book.

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Typical Mech Battle Story

Nothing new here ... pretty good classic Mech lingo and tech. As a 4 book package a enjoyable read ... but 4 credits for 4 books would not be just. Characters never really gelled.

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  • 08-22-18

Mostly flash but still fun

I’m a big fan of mech shows and I’ve been wanting an author to tackle mechs in more sci books. I feel like it’s a genre that deserves to be explored more. That being said this is a nice step but in the end not what o wanted.

The science just didn’t feel believable and would take my out of my immersion. That being said I had plenty of fun and for one credit it was a decent investment

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This should have never gotten past the editor

High school level writing. Poor characters, paint ball gun really?
unreal story line,the editors should have sent this back.

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For fans of halo and mass effect

I received this book as a promo

Going through my Audible account I realized that I had not reviewed this promo copy, so here it is several months later and off the top of my head

I have read this author in the past. several books from each of his other trilogies and really love those series. This is probably my least favourite of all his series. There’s nothing wrong with it, per se, I just prefer the space exploration side of his writing. With this book you get four novels which I felt actually made the story too long. You don’t have to read them all in one sitting but the first couple of novels end very abruptly it’s almost as if it’s the end of a chapter and not the end of a book.
All the stories are very fast pace read with interesting characters and tons of action. I have always found Scott universe to be well thought out and enjoyable. All of his book exist in the same universe and often crisscross characters from different series . If you are someone who loves reading the halo novels his books are definitely up your alley, although I am would recommend reading his other series (super carriers) first to get a better idea of the world these characters inhabit

The narration is excellent with each character getting their own unique voice and personality.

Getting four novels for one credit you can’t really go wrong

I would say this book is worth one of your hard-earned credits

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It’s Mechs. What more do you want?

I loved this series. Lots of action and a well put together story. Highly recommendable.

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Another great book

Like the Ixan prophecies series this is a great collection of books! It bridges the gap between the Ixan prophecies and legacy.

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Boring

After the first couple of chapters, I had to stop listening, It's was trying real hard to put me to sleep. Waste of a perfectly good credit!

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Story need a lot of work

After 4 books left hanging! Purchase the complete series to be left with more questions.

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I unfortunately did not enjoy this story at all

I wanted to like it; just could not get past the extremely bad characters, poorly created names, lack if any viable tactical decisions, and some really bad science. I slogged through this series as I had purchased the complete set hoping it would get better, but did not. So far, out of the hundreds of scifi books I have been through, this series is a leader as the worst.

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