The Protector's War

I'm not done listening to this audiobook, but I have to leave this comment somewhere. This narrator needs to learn how to pronounce the names of towns in Oregon. As a native Oregonian, one of the reasons I enjoyed this series is because it's set in an area that I've been familiar with my whole life. In the first audiobook, there was only one frequently mispronounced word - Corvallis (he says the "a" with a rounded "aw" sound instead of an open "ah" sound) - but it was subtle enough that I just decided to deal with it and move on. In this second book, however, we're hearing more and more about smaller communities in the Willamette Valley, and he's butchered at least three more names that I can think of off the top of my head: McMinnville (he adds an extra syllable, making it "McMinniville"), Gervais (it's pronounced as two syllables, ger-vis, nor three, ger-vai-us), and Umatilla (he pronounces it a Spanish way, with the double l's making a y sound). If you're going to narrate an audiobook that's set in a real place with real names, LEARN TO PRONOUNCE THE DANG NAMES THE LOCAL WAY.

In the alt-history / near-future Emberverse, The Change has altered certain laws of physics, rendering useless most of the technology undergirding modern civilization. Those who survive the desperate aftermath rebuild as best they can; neo-feudal societies emerge from the rubble. To call this series......more

More interesting than the first book but plotwise not as good. Where this book excels is in seeing various proto goverments growing around The Change; organically and forced. The realization by one of the 'good' characters that he is inadvertently creating a landed gentry but can't really afford to......more

Second in the Emberverse science fiction dystopian series and revolving around three bands of good guys: the Bearkillers, the Mackenzies, and the English contingent. This story's locations encompass England and Oregon. It's been nine years since the EMP hit the world and took out all technological ad......more

This wasn’t badly written or anything.. as in the prose is fine. I feel like there’s a lot of racism and I was essentially reading some dude’s idyllic wet dream of a world after electricity. Couldn’t handle how many perfect characters there are in here. This book is definitely not a book for me anymo......more

I did not enjoy this book as much as the first one. The Protector's War is the second in the series and I highly recommend reading Dies the Fire before moving on to this book. A little background, the world has been through a Change. This Change meant the end of civilization as most know it. Guns, E......more