Qalea Drop

Spiral Wars, Book 7

De: Joel Shepherd

Narrado por: John Lee

The UFS Phoenix embarks on a dangerous quest for the AI Ceephay Queen who rules at the heart of the Reeh Empire. For cover, Phoenix will use the enormous war being launched by the new rulers of the croma, Croma'Dokran, into reeh space. This war is intended in part to evacuate the corbi homeworld of Rando, thus righting a great wrong of croma history by rescuing 200 million corbi from reeh tyranny.

While Lisbeth defies her parren seniors to use drysine and parren firepower in assisting the evacuation, Erik captains Phoenix, accompanied by Styx's four drysine warships, to the world of Eshir, where Styx insists the Ceephay Queen was once located. There, in the ancient, ruined city of Qalea, Trace and Styx must lead an away mission through buried layers of Reeh Empire history to uncover its long-forgotten secrets. Discovering the Ceephay Queen's present location could set them on the road to saving humanity. But Qalea's secrets have been hidden by the reeh for millennia, secrets that could rock their Empire, and they will stop at nothing to keep hidden.

©2020 Joel Shepherd (P)2020 Audible, Inc.

A Wonderful Addition

The Spiral Wars is my favorite Sci-fi series and this book is just as fantastic as the rest of the books in this series. I love the lore and deep history present in all these books, not to mention the intense political scheming on all sides. I eagerly the next installment and hope there are many more to come.

good listen

a bit more of the same but if you've made it this far that's probably OK with you, hopefully the next book move the story along more though

series continues in high end form

This is one of the best series in this genre. Story, chemistry, action, and dialog make it worth multiple listens.

Still fresh and exploring

Loving this series, it still feels fresh, and is developing the characters well. Passages with AI are consistently interesting

The Character Development & Hard Science 💪🔥👏

Never knew Joel's writing until this series, very lucky to have stumbled upon this! Strong writing, character development through the roof, plot lines that cascade, and very plausible future tech that makes the best Science fiction 🙌👏.

I'm all caught up in the series, ugggh 😫 I need the new books to drop!

Excellent as Always

Another great book in the series. Most of the spiral wars books read almost as a casual philosopher's tourist guide to the spiral, this is no exception and no decrying remark. The world building is world class and the characters are excellent and have development and depth rarely maintained over a long series. This book is mainly about the secrets, politics and intrigue of the species we met in the last few books. This keeps you hooked and needing to know more from the first to the last minute of the book.

The reader seems to change some pronunciations towards the end, but it's not extreme and he keeps up his quality of reading throughout the book. Hardly surprising as he is a talented reader, helps enhance a great book/series to an amazing book/series.

Slow start but Home Run ending

Enjoyed the Book, I have really enjoyed the Series just tough to wait a year plus between books.

The authors imaginary universe continues to expand

The author continues to exhibit great imagination. The performance continues to be good. The books could be a lot shorter but the author always adds new characters and settings where he goes into great detail to build the characters. In the end you always want to read the next book to see what happens to the main characters

Fun, but didn't progress the story much.

The narration is amazing, as has been the case with the rest of the series with John Lee.

But after finishing this book, I don't feel satisfied like I did with most of the other books in the series. I feel that it's only really the ending itself, the last one hour or so, that really gave the readers/listeners what we came for.

Our main crew goes to a Reeh-occupied planet with humans on it and three quarters of the way through of the book they are there really doing basically nothing. Fighting with random aliens on the planet and dealing with the divided human population and learning about the history on how they got there. Interesting, but almost completely irrelevant to the main story.

And then the book is split with us getting to see the Corbi evacuation. It was cool, seeing some of how they go about doing that. But I couldn't help but feel that the whole storyline was unnecessary. It very much seemed to serve the purpose of showing Liala and how she is handling things. I would have much rather that this corbi storyline have been cut down to a few chapters, leaving out the chapters with individual corbi, and instead having added to the storyline on Qalea.

Honestly, I really did enjoy the book and the action, dialogue, politics, space battles, etc. and seeing all that stuff and how it works in this universe is always a blast to listen to. I just ended up wishing that more would have happened to progress the main story. I expect pretty much all spiral wars fans to enjoy the book either way and important things really do get revealed near the end, so it's going to be a recommendation for that if anything, but for me, this felt almost like a side story to me, even though I understand it's absolutely not.

It’s definitely one of my favorite space military operas

Good be John Lee as narrator or the intricate story line but I always enjoy these books and the character building that goes with them! It’s an awesome mix of military and space opera scifi. The mix of Joel Shepherd and John Lee is a winning combo!