Retreat Hell

The Empire's Corps, Book 8

By: Christopher G. Nuttall

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

After the disastrous mission to Lakshmibai, the very existence of the commonwealth is called into question by politicians on Avalon. But as the political firestorm mounts, a call for help arrives from Thule, a highly developed world facing a major insurgency in the wake of the empire's collapse. Reluctantly the commonwealth deploys the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force to Thule. But all is not as it seems. The insurgents are receiving support from off-world powers while, bare light years across the border, Wolfbane - another successor state to the vanished empire - is preparing for war - and an old enemy plots her revenge. As the countdown to war begins, the CEF finds itself sinking in a quagmire of bitter hatred. And nothing more than pawns in a very deadly game.

©2014 Christopher G. Nuttall (P)2015 Podium Publishing

Awesome, a superior and wide series...

What about Jeffrey Kafer’s performance did you like?

Between this series and Frontiers Saga I can't help but feel contented whenever I hear Kafer's voice start up.

Great continued saga

I enjoy the characters and the story. Keep it coming the story is compelling and highly entertaining.

Another fine entry...

Excellent entry above par in the series. Strong compelling story with well developed characters makes you enjoy this chapter in the series. As always the author Brings his best to the story. A great performance by the narrator rounds out this great audio book. Bottom line you will not be surprised or disappointed.

Becoming repetitive.

It's a bummer. I like the series so far but it seems that by now he's just recycling scenes and descriptions. I haven't counted how often we get yet another description of pain and suffering and how powerless the current story teller feels about it. But it seems almost a constant thing.

We get it. Society is falling apart and everybody suffers and the brave Marine Corps soldiers feel powerless.

Can we stop repeating that every five minutes?

It should have been named Listening Hell

Any additional comments?

It took me months of listening on and off to finally drudge through this book. I really enjoyed all of the previous books, but this one was like listening to paint dry.

Starting to be all the same....freshen it up

Would you try another book from Christopher G. Nuttall and/or Jeffrey Kafer?

I stopped listening to the series after this book. The story line just needs an injection of new plot lines. I really like the narration and is why I stuck with it this long. I will give the series a rest for a long while then maybe come back.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Really good narration

Did Retreat Hell inspire you to do anything?

Well.....yes. Put the series down for a while. I like some of the characters a lot but its just as a old paratrooper....marines ain't all that and neither is the story line.

Really Jasmine can't be that stupid

There were just to many unbelievable military mistakes and supposedly Jasmine would just keep repeating them. come on. I'll try the next one but I hope to read an adult book not something contrived for little kids and teenagers.

A good read not as good as other books

I liked the continuation of the Terean marine story. The book the pace was very slow and got tedious at times. All in all this book was not my favorite by a long shot.

Not worth the credit!

What disappointed you about Retreat Hell?

The story could be made in three paragraphs. Nutall's worst book. Extremely Boring lots of politics and little action.

What could Christopher G. Nuttall have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Maybe include it in Book 9, alone it is worthless.

Have you listened to any of Jeffrey Kafer’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Kafer does a good job, this time he just had a very poor story!

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Absolutely NONE.

Any additional comments?

Pass this one up.

This series isn't a series

The individual books in this series are well-enough written, with good world building, interesting characters, and a strong plot. But the "series" so far has at least four only tangentially related storylines, and the books do not seem to be chronological.

This book, in the Avalon storyline (the most interesting, IMO) ends on a bit of a cliff-hanger, and it looks as though the next book is in a different storyline.

While, as I noted, the stories are well-done, this is more than slightly annoying. If you want to write books that are only related by their placement in the same world timeline, it's rude to call them a series.

If this series were actually being written as a coherent story rather than novel-length, vaguely related vignettes, I would rate it higher. As is, I can't say that I could recommend it wholeheartedly.