The Black Sheep

A Learning Experience, Book 3

De: Christopher G. Nuttall

Narrado por: Christian Rummel

In the wake of Earth's collapse into chaos, Captain Hoshiko Stuart made the mistake of speaking her mind - and was exiled six months from Sol to a naval base in an unexplored and uncontacted sector. Placed in command of a single squadron of starships, she expected nothing but boredom.

But when she discovers an alien race threatening to exterminate all other races within the sector, Hoshiko and her squadron are drawn into a war to stop them, even if it means forging an alliance with aliens who may themselves become a threat to humanity and building an empire that may alienate her from her family once and for all.

The Black Sheep is the third stand-alone book in A Learning Experience.

©2015 Christopher G. Nuttall (P)2016 Podium Publishing

need more story less morals

I the us and the world are screwed, quit telling me every three sentences. boring.

a good science fiction book I listened to it about

this book helped me at the edge of my seat I love all the characters that was a description of Science Fiction and talk about spaceships

Love these books great writer and great narrator.

They leave you wanting more. I really hope this universe is expanded into a full series that it has the potential for the big screen.

I miss Steve!

I am not a fan of all these side stories. All the chapter Intel's talk about Earth and the Solar Union but the book itself barely talks about it. Bring back STEVE!

Great

Great story, Great author. It is absolutely worth the purchase and read. It has adventure, humor, drama, all that you want in a book. You wont be disappointed.

Riveting

This is book three in the Learning Experience series. Our protagonist, Captain Hoshiko Stuart, spoke her mind and is now exiled for six months from Sol to a naval base far away in the unexplored sector. She is in command of a single squadron of Starships. They discover an alien race threating to exterminate all other races. She joins some other alien races to defeat them. Of course, she makes commitments and agreements beyond her authority but they are a long way from Sol and the seat of government.

Our hero is a likable character with courage and honor. She is sort of like David Weber’s character Honor Harrington. The book is well written and the pace is fairly fast. Nuttall creates some interesting and extremely likeable characters. Most often he has strong women in his stories and in this book as the lead character. I like that Nuttall did not do a lot of rehashing background from prior books in the series. He did just enough to trigger recall of the history of a situation or person. This is a good action packed get- away- from- it- all space opera.

The book is almost 12 hours long. Christian Rummel does an excellent job narrating the story. Rummel is an award-winning audiobook narrator.

Skip to Chapter 15

listen to the prelude and then skip to Chapter 15ish. Nothing happens really until then.

The mini romance was also worthless and I think took away from the book.

Star battles were good. Reminded me of the suspense during my days of playing Eve Online.

a gross simplification of current social issues

The author puts forth a simple understanding and solution to current social issues. While entertaining, his view point was loss in right wing rigidity cloaked in "good ole American self-reliance." I.E. BS.

The mixed marrige, multi racial families/societies clash with the very real issue of ethnic distrust and disdain.

As far as Sci-fi goes, not bad. As a war tale, mediocre. As a social criticism, dismal.

The reader was excellent, maybe the only reason that I listened to all 3 books.

Amazing!

This series of books is simply amazing. A great reflection on existing policies and what could happen. Simply amazing book series!

Fun Book

An imaginative and fun series that cleaves closely to standard military sci-fi tropes. Could have done without the political narrative. Don't agree with the point of view and hear enough about politics on a daily basis without wanting to dive back into them in my recreational reading.