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The Longest Day

By: Christopher G. Nuttall
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
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Publisher's summary

A stand-alone novel set in the Ark Royal Universe!

The first major alien offensive against Earth has been blunted, winning humanity time to deploy new weapons and prepare new tactics as Earth's space navies prepare to take the offensive. But the enigmatic aliens have plans of their own - a full-scale attack on Earth that will either win the war in a single stroke or lose it.

The stakes have never been so high. The fate of humanity itself is in the balance. And, as battle rages across the solar system, as humanity finds its back pushed firmly against the wall, millions of people - military and civilian - struggle for survival, knowing that victory will come with a very high price....

And defeat will be the end of everything humanity holds dear.

©2017 Christopher G. Nuttall (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

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not chronological book 10

more like 2.5, story goes back to the bombing of earth by the tadpoles and the stories of some of the people caught in the attack

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skip this one,

bad and not part of the main story arc. seems like a needless cash grab by the author.

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this one is a miss!

good background on the character Molly however the overall story didn't connect enough dots disappointed

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Meh book in otherwise decent series.

If you delete mentions of:

Gritting teeth
Shit hitting the fan
Society breaking down
Unnecessarily nude women

Then this book would be about half its length.

I enjoy the “ark royal” series though I don’t enjoy his other stuff. His nutty libertarianism is too rampant in the rest of his work. I hope he’s not going to ruin this series with more mediocre books like this.

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yes it was the longest day and book

I absolutely love the ark Royal story, but Christ I do not like the side characters whom in my opinion, take up way too much of the story. unfortunately this continues on in the following books, where politics and less interesting side characters are the barbone of the storyline. please go back to the thrilling days off the first ark royal books, and not this political semi sci-fi.

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Book out of sequence

I must say that I generally love Christopher Nuttall’s books. However, I find his habit of doubling back on the timeline and doing side stories to be quite annoying. If I am listening to a series I want a chronological progression. Not stories way out of the timeline or with stories very weakly connected to the series. Mr. Nuttall would be better served to do spin off series, than to include them in the main Series. I forgot to read the summary on this one before purchasing. It’s not what I was expecting and I was very disappointed. I like the author enough that I would probably buy everything he wrote, if it was segregated. Instead I find myself looking for new authors.

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Molly....hmmm

The "Molly" sequences were overdone. It seemed as though you were trying to write for the sake of sensationalizing. This type of writing only serves to make your book what we used to refer to as a "dime" novel. I did not like this book in the collection.

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Great job telling the story

I just wish this book would have came earlier in the series. Filled in a lot of unanswered questions. Tells the good and bad of people when in bad situations. Also a lot of the side details that you might have been wondering about.

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Glad they told this story

If you haven’t read this series, read book1 and 2, then boom 10 and then 3. Don’t bother with 4-9.

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Uninspired, a creation made from previous leftovers

While I enjoyed this book, it was not as engaging as the author’s previous works. It had the feel of bits that had been cut out of previous books, that had made them unwieldy, in streamlining their plots. Then these cuttings were stitched together, to create something of a “Franken-novel.” It definitely fills out the previous chronology of the series’ plot, but it comes as an almost as an afterthought to those previous works.

If this feels like damning with faint praise, it is. This book would have held together much better as alternate plot lines in previous works, but seems forced and a bit disconnected here. Still enjoyable, just not as good as the rest of the series.

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