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War of the Spheres

By: James Millington, B. V. Larson
Narrated by: Mark Boyett
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Publisher's summary

When humanity reaches for the stars, our probes are destroyed. They crash into an incredibly advanced piece of technology: a massive force-field. Unknown beings have placed a barrier around our star and planets, enclosing us within. We’re locked inside a Great Sphere.

Was this invisible obstacle built to imprison us - or to protect us? No one knows the truth, but it soon becomes clear the barrier has leaks. Aliens infiltrate and try to sabotage our efforts to escape our cage.

A warship crewed by military people and scientists beta-test an engine designed to pass through the barrier. Chief Gray, a security officer from Control, is assigned to help. His mission is critical: Earth must escape her bonds at all costs, even if it means war with our hostile neighbors.

War of the Spheres is a new novel by James Millington and B. V. Larson, a best-selling SF author with over three million copies sold.

©2019 Iron Tower Press (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

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misleading summary...

Bland and unrealistic characters with nonsensical attitudes, weird pacing, and very boring fight scenes. Most of the dialog is bitching arguments, places where tension could be drawn out deliciously are swept aside as the plot bulldozes past them. Time passes apparently but what feels like a couple days is apparently weeks worth of time, at least if the dialog is accurate.

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  • 06-18-19

even Mark Boyett's talent cant save this

Very disappointing, poorly written, with characters that are confusing and unrelatable. The main character and narrator is opaque and leaves you scratching your head about his motivations and actions. Sadly, I was looking forward to this book as I loved Larson's Starforce and Undying Mercenaries series, but this book is just painful to listen to - I only have an hour left and I may not ever finish.

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Not a Larson book?

It was like a different person wrote it. The characters and plot were very shallow. Not much was there to enjoy compared to his other series.

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Just ok

Mark Boyett did well. The story was just not that good. Not the worst I have read, but not what I expect from BV Larson.

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Just not good

I listen to B.V. Larson a lot, and enjoy the books. But this one was just not good at all. The part where the main character learns the aliens name and can’t help but laugh and make crude jokes. For the first time you are talking to a different species from who knows where and the aliens name cracks you up like a child? That was just one of the many things that turned me off to this book. The audio narrative is good like always, story.... bad.

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Odd

BV Larson should be ashamed of this garbage. I own every book he writes and this seemed to be writtten by someone else. Story doesn’t match the description. .

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Didn’t leave me wanting more

Mr Boyett’s performance is the high point of this book, as always he was great. Unfortunately, the story is not up to par with Mr Larson’s works, which I’ve previously given high marks. While I liked the stories main character the mechanism for his adventures seemed unsatisfied.

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challenging.... for a 3rd grade dropout

Imagine listening to a 5 hour conversation detailing the process of fitting a square peg into a square hole.

Yes, the narration is excellent and there are moments of relief from the typically inane scenarios and dialogues, but it's obvious that someone other than Larson scribbled out the bulk of the text (probably with a crayon on wide rule paper.)


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Utterly Pathetic.

Beyond dull. Larson is so predictable. He has a new Marvin called Toby. He's exactly the same.

The story is about a soldier with his past erased, conditioned to single-minded compliance with orders and a drive to complete missions - until we get to the sleezy bits where Larson thinks readers want to hear about how women find his protagonists irrestible. I got to 4:40 when the turbo focused soldier randomly jogs off to bang some rondomer woman right in the middle of his mission. That was when I quit.

Boyett does the exact same voice for the main chararter that he did for Kyle Riggs - which he also did for Cody Riggs. If you get different narrators, it'd be less obvious that all your characters are exactly the same.

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Low brow sci fi action story

In my opinion, the plot was a little lazy. Main character would go to illogical locations to move along the plot. Basically, the main character was always at the action, and most other characters seemed one diminishional. Pretty much no world building, or setup of the general time, place.

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