The Dark Between

By: Terry Maggert, J. N. Chaney

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's Summary

The Messenger must prepare for war.

With the Archetype damaged, Dash and his crew will need more than a quick fix to prepare for what's coming. 

A secret facility known only as the Forge lies in cold sleep, built by the Unseen for the greatest war in history. Dash has no idea what awaits him there, but he hopes to find some kind of advantage in the war that is to come. 

Meanwhile, on a distant world, an ancient order of monks protects a long-buried secret. They have guarded it for centuries, all in the hope that someday the Messenger might come and relieve them of their task. 

Dash has answered that call...and he will not be denied.

©2019 Variant Publications (P)2020 Podium Publishing

A Quality Drop

Quality drop off in this second book, a Mech that is not so much of a kick ass mech. Dash clearly still cannot see the waaay bigger picture and it not actively recruiting a army to help him or even letting the galactic police know something is up. Because other worlds would want to fking know some beings out there are hell bent on destroying the universe. Maybe some civilizations would want to help out. But hey, stick with your hand full of people and a a busted ass Mech that seems not to evade any god damn thing tossed at it and is nearly a busted ass robot after every little fight that is NOT the Golden.

great job again with the book. I love it

you feel like Dash is an Idoit by not using the weapons he has to fight because he thinks there useless for fighting mechs even though he's never fought one so he just punches it. then when that fails he uses the weapons he has and it kills it with 1 slice.

Conversations make this book drag

I had to skip over portions of this book because the conversations between the characters and with themselves in situations where they shouldn't be talking as much as they do made the action drag on to the point where the exciting parts of the book were pretty boring. The decisions that are made by some of the characters seem to only add to the book length instead of adding any sense of anticipation or progression. It was hard for me to care much about the characters. Overall I was more frustrated listening to this book than entertained. The story concept is great but the execution is lacking.

The sequel carries forward!

Like the previous book, this one is an exciting and action packed romp through space. The mecha storyline is fun and engaging, and it's refreshing to have an optimistic hero at the center of it. I look forward to the next!

Exceedingly Short

For the price I would expect much more. Was one book split into 5 books?

Book 2 declines into emotion based rants

The focus of the story becomes the Dash characters purely emotional response to every plot complication. Dash is defined as character unable to comprehend anything technical or relating to physics. His Cussing and yelling with imaginary macho bravado is used as filler wherever possible..

boring

most of this book is several people arguing about tools and technology. there is no real plot defined.

If there were another Narrator....

The story was great the plot just keeps getting better but the narrator turns the main character into a whiny grumpy unknown annoying to hear character

Love Jeffrey Kafer's narration, story disappoints

author spends way too much time in reminding the reader/listener of past actions, and character musings. I won't be downloading any more of this series.

Enjoyable but short

I listened to the first 2 books because they were included with my membership. I believe the series has potential but book 3 is only 6 and half hours long and I believe there are better places to spend my credit. The story and characters are interesting but the presentation seemed a bit amateurish at times. However, I suspect the series will get better as the authors develop both the story and the characters. At some point I expect they will group the books together for better value and at that time I will continue to listen.

Why use one chapter when you can use a dozen?

A middling story made ridiculous by the use of multiple quests in order to 'power up' a high tec alien machine.
I think the author has been playing far too many adventure games.
Regardless of the daft and forced plot lines, the author just waffles on and on about the most mundane of stuff in order to pad out the book.
I swear, the whole book could quite easily be reduced to a few chapters and wouldn't lose anything in the telling.

I got the first two books for free, and I'm not sure that it was good value. I won't be bothering with any more in this sequence and will avoid the author from now on.

great book

likable characters. good over all narrative with a little bit of humour and tension.

Good listen

I am really enjoying this series i have already downloaded book 3. The performance is excellent.