No Greater Tyranny

Blue Dawn, Book 4

By: Blaine Pardoe

Narrated by: Edward Thornton

Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

The Second American Civil War Rages On!

The progressives that overthrew the government are desperate to hold onto power. Battles rage from New Hampshire, to Texas, to North Carolina, and Tennessee. The American freedom fighters must contend with a revolt in Texas, Chinese interference, the tyrannical National Security Force, and ruthless politicians bent on making sure America isn’t restored.

One patriot leads a daring raid behind enemy lines and one family extracts vengeance for a lost member of their clan. A determined general is thrown into a battle that could crush the hopes that America can be saved. The odds have never been longer…the patriotism never higher.

Torn from today’s headlines, Blaine Pardoe’s fourth installment in the Blue Dawn series is a cautionary tale of what could happen if the radical progressives got everything they ever wanted.

©2023 Blaine Pardoe (P)2023 Blaine Pardoe

Amazing

This is one of the few Series that gets better with evert book.Though this is very entertaining. The books are also a powerful warning of what could happen.

What happens when a book is written asap. Slow down.

Performance: voices for characters changed since last book which is annoying. The narrator mispronounces a ton of every day words for some reason.

Story: jumps around the timeline a lot. That’s just cheap suspense building. It gets very frustrating at times.

Half the plot requires the character to suspend all intelligence so that the idea of China being involved never once crosses their minds.

Every character that fires a weapon is incredibly accurate with their knee shots and that is incredibly cringe.

Taiwan guy is motivated by hate of the NSF and what they did to his family but then at moments he is like “some of them are great people doing their job don’t hurt them” for some reason.


Commanders never sit in the lead vehicle.
Commanders also don’t micromanage the battle space.

Good progress to the story.

Book 4 wasn't as thrilling as the first 3 books, and the audible performance just made it worse.
I loved the first 3, this one felt like a chore listening to it, but I still enjoyed it, and wanted to find out what happens.

It might have been due to more characters in the same scene, so the narrator had to bounce between the characters and they didn't sound as different. The earlier audio books seemed easier to follow.

The chinese plotline was good and plausible. This book has more fighting scenes. My favorite is the scene with infiltration and capture of the governour. Blaine excels at writing those scenes with the characters responses.

Looking forward to finding out how the fractured Union progresses.

Riveting and entertaining

Wow, Blaine continues to weave more interesting characters into this series. He is masterful at giving you depth of character and vivid scenes that make you feel that you are there! Well done! Cannot wait for the next book!

Another fun one in Blue Dawn

It's a guilty pleasure to listen to these books. If you made it to book 3 the story continues and more civil war action to be had.

the narrator is hard to get used to but he does an adequate job.

Amazing.

listened twice now. will probably listen again. Blaine tracks the insanity of our real world incredibly well in this alternative universe. Spooks you, but also makes you think.

Cartoon stereotype voices detract

The story is a great continuation from the first three books of the series.

But buy it and read it yourself.

I often try to support authors by purchasing hard copies, ebooks and audio versions - and love the flexibility that gives me.

The voice "acting" in this series has always been meh. The caricatures are vocally stereotyped and walk the line between annoying and laughable, but the mispronunciations that have always been there are increased exponentially in this fourth book.

Always mispronouncing "coup d'état" in a four book storyline that basically originates and centers around one is comical at best, but something I've tolerated. However, some examples of simple words like "decadent" and "origin" being horrendously mutilated and pop culture references around since the 80's like "Mandalorian" also being audibly destroyed make this particular listen far less enjoyable. Mispronunciations abound. It's become a distraction much akin to counting the "ums and ahs" of that teacher or presenter we have all had.

Support the author and enjoy this continuation of the story in the tradition of "old" America and buy the book.

Great story but the audio had a few cutoffs

Great story but there where several points where the recording has sound issues that cutoff what was being said. However I’m not a 100% sure if it was the audible apps fault or the recording it’s self.