Swords of Waar

Jane Carver, Book 2

By: Nathan Long

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman

Audie Award Finalist, Fantasy, 2014

Jane Carver, a hell-raising, redheaded biker chick from Coral Gables, Florida, had found a new life and love on Waar, a savage planet of fearsome creatures and swashbuckling warriors. Until the planet’s high priests sent her back to Earth against her will. But nobody keeps Jane from her man, even if he happens to be a purple-skinned alien nobleman. Against all odds, she returns to Waar, only to find herself accused of kidnapping the Emperor’s beautiful daughter. Allying herself with a band of notorious sky-pirates, Jane sets out to clear her name and rescue the princess, but that means uncovering the secret origins of the Gods of Waar and picking a fight with the Wargod himself. Good thing Jane is always up for a scrap....

Swords of Waar is the wildly entertaining sequel to Jane Carver of Waar, and continues the raucous adventures of science fiction’s newest and most bad ass space heroine.

©2012 Nathan Long (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Dina Pearlman gives Jane a gravelly Midwestern accent as she spits out her curt, no-nonsense dialogue like machine-gun fire. In contrast, Pearlman gives Lahn, the purple-skinned nobleman Jane falls for, a deep, urbane voice, dramatizing the phenomenon that opposites attract. As Jane finds her way from Earth back to Waar (Mars) to save Lahn, Pearlman never falters in bringing forth the raunchy bite of this high adventure. Hitting the ground running from the opening sentence, it's perfect escapist listening for a summer road trip." (AudioFile)

A Great, Unique Listen

What made the experience of listening to Swords of Waar the most enjoyable?

Take a bad ass biker chick with a foolish sense of honor that gets her into trouble *way* too often, drop her on an alien planet where the gravity gives her super strength and narrate the whole thing with a little bit of southern flair. This might be the best thing I've "read" all year.

Any additional comments?

Disclaimer: I might have just a little bit of a crush on Jane. ;)

Good story

Loved both books in this series. Jane is clever and brassy and she does not disappoint. I can't wait for the third!

Better story/plot than book one.

I think this book was actually better than book one. There was much less sense of "Action A leading to Result A" and "Action B leading to Result B" formula, and more sense of plot and storyline.

The characters are the same, and maybe Jane wasn't quite as funny this time, or as rough-and-tumble... it is almost like the author tamed Jane down a bit. The romance that 'caused' this book to take place at all actually gets developed a bit throughout the story; so, while at the beginning you might wonder at Jane's choice to go back to Waar, by the end it makes more sense.

There is a bit more science fiction here (as oppposed to the fantasy novel feel of book one) and I think there might still be room to carry on this series (i.e. who created this world in the first place?). Anyway, I would read it.

There is no graphic anything, but there might have been the occasional swear word. The narration is very good.

She's Baaaaack!

Jane was determined to return to Waar and find her purple-skinned alien lover. She manages to find her way back (barely), but finding him isn't easy. Then when she does find him, she's not sure she wants him after all! This sequel to Jane of Waar is just as good. This tough babe isn't one to let aliens with purple skin push her around, so she sets out to change the world - by finding and freeing up all the water that was stolen by....oh wait, sorry, no spoilers, you'll have to read it to find out!

REGRET IS A VERY LARGE ROCK

IT WAS ABOUT F###ING TIME OR TIME FOR F###ING
I love the main character of this book. If you like the White Trash Zombie, you should like Ja'ane. Book one was like A BATH IN WARM WHISKEY, but I was not ASS OVER TITS, for this one. The plot sucked on this and the story was redundant. I just could not stay interested and could not finish it.

KEEP TALKING, I'M RELOADING
Pearlman is great, she is not at fault for this being a bit on the boring side.

WHAT THE F### IS WRONG WITH YOU F###S