Vinium

The Silver Ships, Book 10

By: S. H. Jucha

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

After the passage of two decades, the Omnians discovered a second, critical clue about the Nua'll, humankind's enemy, while investigating Celus-4, the home world of the intelligent, canine-like aliens, the Dischnya.

This striking discovery, combined with the final broadcast of the Nua'll sphere at Libre, prior to its detonation, gave Alex Racine and company the means to narrow the search for the Nua'll home world.

Alex has a consuming desire to locate the point of origin of the Nua'll before another gigantic sphere arrives to destroy more colonies. The first sphere's incursion into the Confederation burned billions of humans to ash.

Six scout ships are constructed by the Omnians and crewed by SADEs, self-aware digital entities, to search the stars along a narrow path defined by the two clues.

During its search, a scout ship, the Vivian, is captured by an alien warship in a faraway system that the SADEs dub Vinium. The two ships, locked tightly together in a form of electronic warfare, achieve an impasse.

The scout ship calls for help, and Alex Racine receives the strange message. According to the SADEs, the aliens aboard the warship appear to be plant people.

Rescuing the scout ship presents Alex and his companions the opportunity to meet the plant people, the Vinians, on their home world. It leads the Omnians to one more incredible discovery about the Nua'll, which, unfortunately, proves Alex's worst fears.

©2017 Scott H. Jucha (P)2018 Hannon Books, Inc.

great book love to read it

the book was very exciting and I could hardly wait to finish it seems like I was reading it when I should have been working or when I should have been sleeping but it carried my interest to the entire book

Continued Treat for The Sci-Fi Unvierse

As good as the first ... anxiously waiting for the next ... Getting long .. time to conclude?

Amazing. Riveting. Brilliant.

This series kicks ass. I can't wait to listen to the next installment. Please let this be 15 words.

A rare miss for the series

Books 1-9 have been great and progressed the story and action very well. Strange, this tenth addition to the series seems to have been rushed and includes very little substance (which is surprising given we are introduced to a brand new alien species entirely developed from plants at the beginning of the story). Greater than 2/3 of this story is just mundane patter between the characters that has nothing to do with the story as a whole. Seriously, the talk is as inconsequential as "what did you have for breakfast? Are you going to have lunch? Have you gone shopping for dinner? and spread out that kind of conversation through 2/3 of the book! It felt like S.H Jucha only had 4 hours of story lined up and filled the remaining 10 hours with nothing patter between the characters.

Thankfully, book 11 looks lined up to provide all the missing action from book 10 and I'm looking forward to the listen!

Better

The books were starting to feel a little "cookie cutter" with how great and wonderful Alex is, doing the same thing over and over again. This one started out that way but then moved on to continue the actual storyline that got me interested in the series to begin with. Excited for the next book!

good storyline and well narrated

The characters are well fleshed out, the storyline is far from formulaic and narration above average. An enjoyable diversion.

Great Saga

S.H. Jucha consistently delivers with this saga. This is one of my favorite series and Vinium does well to build excitement. Keep it up.

Once again...

Once again S.H. Jucha has produced a deeply enjoyable novel. Each Silver Ships series novel takes its characters, which you can't help but care for deeply, in new & unexpected directions. With most extended series, I find myself needing a break from the story line. Reading 1 to 2 books from different authors before continuing with the series. In contrast, my appetite for the next book in this series only grows more ravenous as this solid & imaginative story continues to unfold. Also, Grover Gardner does a fantastic job adding life & depth to the story!

Vinium - the plant planet

Loved this book just as much as the ones before it. Great story, and characters, that Jucha continues to grow and evolve. Very happy how he sticks to his main cast and only brings new characters into it when they interact with that main cast, whether they become new cast or fade back out.

Performance was good I enjoyed it. Gardner did an awesome job as usual.

All stars in my book.

Tough to start

The begging was one of the most boring things I have ever listened to. Ok thats not true, but it was rough. This book gets really good from the middle on.