Wraith

The Convergence War, Book 1

By: M.R. Forbes

Narrated by: Daniel Wisniewski

A retired captain. An experimental starship. A war like no other.

When the research starship Galileo vanishes without a trace, the powers-that-be are quick to bury the incident, eager to prevent escalating tensions that could lead to war. As a former POW, Soren refuses to give the ship up for lost.

His daughter is one of the missing.

Taking matters into his own hands, Soren starts pulling strings and calling in favors, determined to launch a clandestine mission to bring Galileo home. When an old friend offers him a ship for the operation, he expects a rusty relic headed for the scrapyard.

Instead, he's given the Wraith—an unfinished, experimental starship with plenty of potential and just as many problems. A marvel of engineering…if his crew can keep her running.

They’d better.

Because Galileo’s disappearance is just the beginning. War is coming to the Federation from the most unlikely of places.

And Soren may be the only one who can stop it.

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Overly dramatic

Performance was too dramatic and story just ok. Like I’ve heard this one before. Wishing I had that credit back.

Best of MR Forbes!!

I love this author and this new series is the best of his work! I hope it’s a long series!

Melodrama

This book has its moments - interesting developments, but what stands out is the drama, lots of trite melodrama. The narrator seems to relish it too, lots of shouting.

If silent movie over acting had a voice…

Spoiler alert: the plot of this book is largely based on the Star Trek original series “Mirror Mirror” episode. Unfortunately it’s not as good as. Add to that the melodramatic writing with the over-acted narration and you’ve got a good description of this book. I won’t be going past book one.

Good enough plot to look past some elements

Daniels performance is a Daniel performance and voice. It is good and voices are well done. Every time I get upset at the Captain not acting calm the writing actually indicates with panic in his voice.

The plot of the book is interesting and I will continue but the details are all over the place. I mostly have a hard time putting myself in the moment and imagining the action because of temporal, spacial elements. Missiles arrive in space battles instantly, sometimes there is time for dialog, other times a moment delay causes impact, are these ships 10 feet from each other or are they separated. I mostly have to stop trying to imagine it and just listen. Ground combat is similar.