Ember of War

My New Year resolution: Write shorter goddamn reviews. It's not NY yet, but let's try one :-) Rare are the books where I rate the author more than the narrator. Whatever the writing, usually the narrator gives their best to work with what they've given. Well... Ben Tyler didn't. Truth be told, Stephan......more

This is a short audio it is filled with a lot of good writing. Lee’s rehab isn’t going so well, he doesn’t like to listen to orders that he doesn’t agree with. He has a problem with standing down and wants to take control shooting as many aliens as he can which gets him more than he bargains for. Mr......more

( Format : audiobook ) "The sh*t kicker" For a short story, this certainly packs a punch. Staring full blast with a retired soldier reduced to herding beef clomps on a far flung territory colony, angry at the useless equipment and anxious to put paid to the creatures stealing from the herd. Lee is noi......more

Lee's a former soldier, banished to an outpost planet to ranch the hilariously named beef clops. Everything in the colony is breaking down, and the raids on his herd by the local predators aren't helping Lee's temper. When two of the colony's residents go missing, Lee has the chance to relive his fo......more

Can't say I was enamored by this book. It felt a bit rushed in plot cadence, and there were a couple of areas that made me think that the author was unfamiliar with basic astronomy/cosmology/astrophysics. Thought the world building explanations lacked some cohesiveness. The one element I truly, trul......more