Rando Splicer

Spiral Wars, Book 6

De: Joel Shepherd

Narrado por: John Lee

Separated from her ship, Major Trace Thakur is stranded on the reeh-occupied world of Rando. The native corbi have suffered beneath reeh tyranny for 800 years, and many have given up hope. But Trace needs the data stored in the reeh’s genetic technology and command center - the Rando Splicer - if she’s to learn how to save humanity from impending disaster, and is planning an assault against overwhelming odds. She’ll need help from the UFS Phoenix, though, which is caught in a ritual medieval battle to change the croma leadership that sees her crew embarking on a perilous journey across a warring desert continent. Should they fail, humanity could be just one of many species to die.

©2019 Joel Shepherd (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

A Tale of Two Planets

Sublime narration once again. Typically the chapters are either set on RANDO with Trace and Giddy or on a Croma planet with Erik, Styx, etc. However, one chapter is set in human space with the Fleet triumvirate, and another chapter is set in Parren space with Lisbeth. Chapters on Rando are grim and desperate with nary a smile in sight, but chapters on Croma are lighter, adventuresome, and sometimes funny in a snarky way.

Funniest scenes go to Peanut. Snarkiest lines go to Styx.

As far as character development, it’s all about young Skah losing his baby teeth, Trace becoming a stone, and Tiga (the female Corbi rebel) becoming nuanced and much wiser.

The plot chugs along nicely, like a train, and ends with a few nice surprises and a good idea of what’s to come in the next book.

Quibbles: The author tends to interrupt the flow of action sequences with expository or reflective statements. The dark government secret trope is getting repetitive across books.

Excellent!!

Great story line and voice acting, with solid progression of the series. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Brilliant

Such a good series and of course the amazing John Lee… how can one not love it?

excellent saga

The story continues and grows in a cohesive way to the series. Top tier performances from writer and narrator.

Love this Series!

Joel and John are great together. What a great book this was, talk about a storyline with legs. Keep it coming!

Amazing

Great world building, interesting alien politics, thoughts about life and death and excellent combat. At times very emotional which brings subtance to struggle for survival of all species. I really enjoyed this book. Sum of its parts make a greater whole. I've listened for +100 scifi books and I think this might be the best so far. Narrator is really growing on me. Top 3 in the business for sure.

Better and better

Joel ups the ante even more in this epic tail of honor, betrayal, stupendous battles, human and non human frailties. On the edge of my seat throughout. John Lee delivers a beautiful narration giving each character a distinctive voice. Even the female voices are rich with no to high falsettos.

Series still going strong

Kept me enthralled and wanting to move on to the next book asap. A lot of times series tend to run out of steam by now and start to feel either too short, like a book split into multiple books just to make money, or weighted down with filler (same reason), or just boring “been there done that drivel” heard told in a million other books, but NOT this one.
The characters are growing & changing based on that growth & events, circumstances, etc. in ways that seem plausible. I’m still getting surprises where I can say, I didn’t see that coming. I find myself getting really caught up in the different character’s stories. It’s not just about the 1 MC, but a number of characters in the book are followed, each having their own chapters, or portions of chapters, switching back and forth between the group of them & what they’re doing, as the format to move the story along & I find myself getting so engrossed in what 1is doing that when it switches to another, I’m frustrated because I wanted to keep going with that one, but only a few minutes later I’m feeling the same way about the current character & this keeps happening. Basically all the characters are done with such fullness I can’t help but get sold hook line and sinker on all of them.

This is 1 of the better series I’ve read lately. I’m enjoying it as much as I have reading Galaxies Edge, Paradigm 2045, The Lost Stars/Lost Fleet (Jack Campbell), Koban/Koban Universe & Dunes to name a couple current & past favorites.
I just bought the next2 books in Spiral Wars series & it’s time to dive into the “Ceephay Queen.”

PS - The Narrator, John Lee, is easy to listen to & does a great job bringing these books to life. I’ve come to enjoy him in this series as much as RC Bray in others. I’d be extremely disappointed if another narrator showed up so I hope Mr. Lee continues to narrate the rest of The Spiral Wars.

Yep another good one

Another great booked. Joe seems to know exactly where he’s taking us. And I am on board for the ride. Although it could be, the narrator is so good, I could listen to him read me an engineering book!

Great, very moving

Very exciting, thrilling; in places very moving descriptions of Trace among the Korbi. As usual,the author puts you right in the action. Amazing creation of all the different alien species; their descriptions and cultures are fascinating. I hope book 7 comes out soon.