• Aurora: CV-01

  • Frontiers Saga, Book 1
  • By: Ryk Brown
  • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
  • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,273 ratings)

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Aurora: CV-01

By: Ryk Brown
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
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A world recovering from a devastating plague. A brutal enemy threatening invasion. A young man seeking to escape the shadow of his father. A ship manned by a crew of fresh academy graduates. A top-secret experimental propulsion system. A questionable alliance with a mysterious green-eyed woman.

What destiny has in store for the crew of the UES Aurora is far greater than any of them could ever imagine. And this is only the beginning....

©2012 Ryk Brown (P)2013 Tantor

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Great first story!!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Ryk Brown's first book into the Frontiers Saga is a winner. The story introduces us to the young crew of the Aurora as they are forced to take control of the ship after an experiment with a new faster than light propulsion system leaves the experienced officers dead or injured. The story is fast moving with just enough back story to give you some feeling for the characters. I can't wait to listen to next chapters in this saga.

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Nice Surprise

Sounded like it could be a fun story and I was pleasantly surprised it was. Nice action and good story. Characters are fun it will be interesting to see who they can trust or who they shouldnt trust.

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Fantastic Book

Frontier's Saga was one of the few SciFi books that captivated my attention and imagination. I originally torrented the ebooks and fell in love with the series. I ended up buying them and they are amazing and now I have them all.

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Great story, awesome Narrator

I have read all of Mr Brown’s books to date and have enjoyed every part of the journey. He includes a lot of details about space travel, the mechanics, and physics that add to mentally experiencing the action and drama. I have truly enjoyed hearing Jeffrey Kafer narrate the actions, the scenes, and characters with true inflections to capture your attention at key moments. He does this well in these books and other works I’ve heard by him.

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Ok Story, weak dialogue and poor use of science

It’s an entertaining story, but it’s shallow, the dialogue is pretty weak and the actual science is pretty weak.

Debating if the next story in the series is worth it.

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Nasal

I haven’t figured out If the narrator is holding his nose or reading through Stephen Hawking’s voice synthesizer. This may be a great book, but I’ll never know. 15 minutes in and I gave up because of the robotic rambling of Jeffrey Kafer. Absolutely terrible.

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Not worth the credit

A mediocre space opera at best this series has been broken up into mini novels being sold at novel prices. WARNING do not waste your money. If you really want to judge t his series honestly, wait for audible to combine 3 novels at a time in an omnibus release

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It desperately needs a good editor...

What would have made Aurora: CV-01 better?

An author who can put a sentence together and a real editor to help him.

Any additional comments?

A friend of mine recommended the series to me. He was very excited about it. I wanted to like it. My buddy generally has decent taste.

I really tried to see past it's flaws, but It's just too poorly written. The faux formal, circuitous over-written "passive voice" sentence structure just became intolerable after a while. The characters and plot are cliche' and unremarkable.

I think this is probably an object lesson in how not to self publish. It desperately needs a good editor and more that a few re-writes.

I could barely finish it, and I won't be picking up the rest of the series.

Too bad.

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This series: TV episodes, 10 chapters each

I read / heard the entire series. It's entertaining enough, and a bit addictive. However, when I got to the end, after 15 books of 10 chapters each, I realized it wasn't over. The author left several important threads unfinished so he could write a spin-off series (Rogue Castes) and thus take more of my money and time. And he's also writing another series, which goes back in time to show what happened to Earth so long ago, when the mother-of-all-plagues struck, and humans took to the stars in colony ships.

As I read book after book, it began to feel like each book was a TV episode. Where one book ends, the next one picks up, often on the very same day or week.

Told in 3rd person, and set on earth, in space, and on various far-flung planets in the Milky Way Galaxy, this is the story of a handful of fleet academy graduates who find themselves far from home, on the Aurora starship, the only ship of her kind, engineered with advanced technology.

When the recurring heroes Nathan, Vlad, Cameron, and Jessica get caught up in someone else's war, they have to decide whether to play Good Samaritan or look away. Given that the bad guys are bombing entire planets to rubble, it's not really a hard call. (But all that bombing got very old across this series, as did all the detailed battle scenes).

The author has a strange way with words. Sometimes I wonder if he gets the nuance of meaning in "mumbled" verses "muttered" (his heroes mumble all the time). And they "sneer" at each other. I think he means it to be playful, but for me, that word connotes mean-spirited malice. Maybe he means something more like "smirk" or "rib" or "gibe" or possibly "leer" or "jeer" (but not sneer). Just my opinion.

The bad guys in this series are really evil. Planet killers, traitors, and their ilk. I wish the author would write a more vivid, detailed, and satisfying death or imprisonment scene for them.

Bottom line, this series is not great, but not bad either. I like some of the characters, especially Vlad and Cameron. Some plot twists are pretty obvious, but sometimes I'm surprised.

Decent narration. It is good. However, sometimes the dialogue sounds too crisp and monotone, like reading from a textbook.

Contents across series: I'd say PG 13. One quickie sex scene, lots of religious swearing (which felt out of place for this futuristic, distant setting), lots of F-bombs (which did feel right) and lots of death.

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Slow start to a new series

This first book jump started off like wild fire but the slowed quickly. I hope the next book picks up the pace.

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