Carrion Duty

Necrospace, Book 5

By: Sean-Michael Argo

Narrated by: Persephone Rose

Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Hostile salvage confirmed.

Rhett Calibos is a bounty scrapper, his life as an indentured soldier a welcome alternative to imprisonment on a penal colony. A man haunted by his past, Rhett throws himself into the work, his only sanctuary. Sokol Targe is the leader of a mech warrior squad stationed aboard an ancient and deadly warship and conducts violent raids on behalf of a Red List commune. Cast away from corporate society, they have embraced the ravager way of life.

As these troubled men endure furious combat across the ragged edges of civilization, neither of them realize they've become entangled in the deeper mysteries of necrospace.

It's a hard universe, and nobody gets away clean.

©2017 Sean-Michael Argo (P)2018 Sean-Michael Argo

Good for what it is

I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

This is a lot like the previous book, in that there is little plot but tons of great action. A lot like a sci fi version of The Expendibles. Persephone Rose did a great job on the narration and the action was good. All in all, it was definitely entertaining, just nothing to write home about.

Space Combat

This book had a lot of action, and a good story. There were times I had to go back and forth to figure out where I was, but overall I really enjoyed listening to this book and will definitely be buying the previous books in the series as well. The narrator was good and represented the characters well. This is worth a credit.
I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Great Sci-fi!

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. When I first got the book I didn't realize it was the 5th book in a series, but surprisingly it was perfectly fine as a standalone. The story is engaging and the world(universe) seems well built. The narration was very good and the narrator brought all characters to life.

Rough, Gritty, Sci-fi,

Carrion Duty
Necrospace, Book 5
By: Sean-Michael Argo
Narrated by: Persephone Rose
This is an audible book I requested and the review is voluntary.
I have not listened to the previous books but that didn't seem to bother how I understood this book.
This was a gritty, rough, mech sci-fi, that told a story of men on the edge of necrospace, fighting with limited resources and limited knowledge of what is really happening.
It is an intriguing book, hard core, and that isn't for everyone. Lots of combat.
The book jumped around a bit and it was hard to focus at times. I love sci-fi but sometimes it was just too much combat all at one time.
The narrator was excellent!!!! I think the narration helped the book tremendously. I can't imagine trying to read this and stay focused! Too much!

Great story!

Now I wish I had listened to/read the first four books in the series. Top shelf in gender with very good character development, and a strong, driven story. I highly recommend this series, and I will be acquiring the rest of the series! Now for the obligatory: "I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review."

Just didn't work for me.

Carrion Duty is the 5th book Necrospace saga and since I hadn't read the previous books I expected to perhaps be a little lost at first. I had a lot of problems with the book, but being lost wasn't one of them. While there are a decent amount of fairly well done action scenes the book suffers in from numerous problems. First and foremost there is way too much exposition and info dumps. Now I don't know if some of the stuff is rehashing of the previous books or not, but I definitely felt it was unnecessary. Giving detailed backstories of characters that play on bit parts seems ... well as I said unnecessary. There are also huge sections where we are given massive info dumps on the politics of the universe, and while interesting the information does little to nothing to advance the story, if anything it merely slows the story down. It's clear Mr. Argo has spent a lot of time world building and I don't know if he wants to justify the time he spent by adding all of it into his books, but as I said it doesn't advance the story at all, only slows it down. Speaking of the story, it doesn't really feel like the actual story of the book gets going until almost 2 hours in. Judging by the reviews on audible and amazon there are definitely people who have enjoyed the series, but it just didn't click with me.

The book is narrated by Persephone Rose and I have to say he did an excellent job. He does a fantastic job of bringing the action scenes to life.

I received a copy of this audio title for free in exchange for an unbiased review.

Carrion Duty

I love SciFi so I thought this would be up my street and it was to begin with but I found it had to much combat, I would have liked a bit more to it then just fighting. It is not a bad read and it had suspence. I haven't read the books previously to this one but I did not feel that I was missing anything.

Not for me

The story was way to busy for me. Here one minute, new place the next. Too many characters to really get to know one. I enjoyed the narrator's voice and when I could figure out who was what he did great in voicing characters but a little fast in the descriptive parts. .

This book was given to me for free at my request and that I provide this honest voluntary review, Thank you, for the opportunity to do so.

only downside, too short

the only downside to this is that it's too short. I really enjoy this series that shows more than a little influence from the 40k universe but with a different spin. I hope he keeps writing these, there's a big universe out there and a lot of potential. Great book, great series, great author.

Good gritty Sci-Fi

This Blade Runner like book is a entertaining mix of a tough gritty future dominated by dark and immoral Corporations.It is not original but is a enjoyable read for those who enjoy this type of story.

The narrator did his best with the material to keep the interest of the listener.



This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.