Rebel Galaxy

Rebel Galaxy, Book 1

De: J.N. Chaney, Jasper T. Scott

Narrado por: Mark Boyett

The first installment in J.N. Chaney and Jasper T. Scott's thrilling sci-fi adventure series!

An interstellar colony ship on Earth prepares for take-off. Before reaching their first stop—Proxima b Centauri—they are awoken from their cryo pods early, only to learn there's been an alien invasion on Earth. But it's too late. Can the crew find a safe refuge from the invaders and track down colonists from other ships?

©2025 J.N. Chaney (P)2025 Podium Audio

How did the dumbest man on Earth get command of a colony mission?

Gideon straight must be dumber than a sack of hammers given the choices he makes in this book, and his “love interest” is easily one of the worst written, most annoying women in modern fiction. She’s emotional, she’s irrational, she short tempered yet she’s supposed to be his second in command. I pity every single colonist on this mission because God help them with this group responsible for their safety.
The story picks up in the last 1/4 but you’ll spend most of the story being bored with occasional bouts of slapping your forehead at Gideon’s incredibly poor decision making ability, but just invested enough to keep listening. If you have a free credit and literally nothing else to spend it on, go for it, otherwise skip this nonsense entirely.

Story is meh

Only the narrator saves this book. Pretty boring otherwise. Plenty of Other great books available on audible.

Good start for a new series

The narrator did a great job with the voices but I wasn’t sure about the story itself. It started off great but I found the story itself a bit confusing.
It’s filled with some great action scenes and it’s worth listen.

Epic Twists and Turns

Great scifi with some really great twists. Just when you think you have it figured out, something comes along and shows you that you didn’t know as much as you thought! Really fun read!

Why the doomsday plots?

I really like the stories and plots bu it seems like Jasper Scott's books all turn into a doomsday scenario?

Not bad, just to many repeating "O my god where all gonna die" due to stupid stuff

RC Bray's telling isnt saving the to many "what and why this this just happen"
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the main though to swallow idea is that the enemy is staking out, using alot of resources and time to have a few more slaves.
AFTER taking over 8-10 Billion people when taking over earth.
the second one is the constant repeat of escaping one, faling in thrashe nest en the second there out its slashers.
it just starts to annoy

Childish

I’ve really enjoyed some of Chaney’s stories, but this was not one of them. It seemed like an attempt to force every possible monster, mishap, and meaningless plot twist possible into one book. I’m sorry I spent the time and money on it.

Narrator was good

Certainly not Cheney's best work. Story is meh, characters are dumb and naïve for the sake of the story. People don't act that way. It's disappointing since Cheney is usually better, but this one was a rare miss.

Characters Make Too Many Dumb Decisions...

Fair warning, some examples may be used from the story, so spoiler warning.

This is one of those stories where the plot(s) can only move forward due to the author making the Main cast dumb. Let me explain.

Let’s take the MC for example. He’s the Captain of his team and the overall expedition to colonize a planet in a relatively “nearby” star system. Him and his team have trained, what’s implied, their whole lives for this mission. They’re astronauts but also seemed trained in defense as well. MC had a dream to visit a particular planet since childhood, a dream born from when he saw the footage of the first probe sent to that planet and landing. So, he’s an explorer at heart and wants to… just see the stars and experience it all for himself.

Yet, he’s written as an impulsive idiot. This is often masked by him somewhat thinking things out and/or talking to his crew about decisions. But he never listens to their warnings and just does what he wants either way. When they show any signs of annoyance about it, he leans on the command hierarchy and thinks they’re being insubordinate. Even if his actions and decisions had a direct hand or indirect hand in robbing them of a loved one.

Let me give a more detailed example. MC and a handful of his crew land on a planet. He’s told by the ship’s sensors that the planet I rated a high-level danger planet EVEN TO THEIR ENEMIES. What does MC do? Decides to leave the ship and take a walk around and explore because he’s fascinated by these rock formations they saw. Not only that, but initially he was supposed to just be testing a ship they just captured and his Second-in-Command, the highest-ranking medical officer was left on their main ship and tasked by MC to develop a way to counter their enemy’s main biological weapon/advantage over humanity. Yet, she was told, MC was told, that she couldn’t achieve that without having the alien there to help her. Yet, MC took he alien with him to go test the ship and then impulsively decides to “hyper-jump” to another star system leaving her unable to do her job. Back to the planet. While on the planet EVEN AFTER FIGHTING THE DANGEROUS WILDLIFE AND ALMOST DYING, he has to be pretty much talked out of trying to explore further. And you get to hear his inner complaints about having to leave the exploration unfinished despite the dangers.

Back to the Second-in-Command Med Officer. Well MC and her are an on again, off again, couple. She tells him off initially, softly about the aforementioned inability to finish her job and MC decides to think she’s being insubordinate and not respecting rank. What? Of course he justifies his speeding off to another star system because he was looking for one of the other colony ships humanity had sent out. Yet, later on when she directly tells him off for his impulsive actions (I’ve left a lot of stuff out here that fully justifies her anger with him), he’s offended that she calls him a narcissistic impulsive leader who wants to live out his boyhood fantasies of exploration in the stars in spite of the fact they’re at war with an alien race that has enslaved 99% of humanity. It was one of the better moments in the story because I thought, finally, he will have to deal with the direct consequences of his stupidity and impulsivity since he’s entirely obsessed with her…err…in love with her. Yet, authors later on force her to apologize and take him back removing any accountability from MC outside of the other stuff that happened that he seems to not care that much about although he verbalizes that he does.

It’s stuff like this and let me be clear, MC is not the only one. The aforementioned second-in-command is far too emotional and makes questionable decisions as well that she has to be talked out of. Etc. Etc. Etc. For a highly trained group of people trusted with traversing space an pioneering a colony, they’re written like characters who’s training only comes into play when the authors want it to, but otherwise most of the time they’re doing dumb things to force plot points to be reached.

In the midst of all of that, there’s an interesting story there, but you might not get to see it play out if your tolerance levels for stupid characters is too low. I’m writing this during one of my long pauses to cool off after my frustration levels rising from mostly the MC doing dumb stuff and making silly decisions to move the plot.

One main positive, Boyett does a decent job at narration. As usually, I’d rather there was a female narrator to do the female voices, but Boyett is ok there.

But as I always say, your mileage may vary.

A whole lot of dumb packed in one story

I have to agree with some of the other reviews. The characters are dumb as rocks. Their mantra seems to be, "this idea is stupid but we will try it, maybe it will work." That didn't work but maybe this will. At one point the "heroes" decide to break into a secured city that nobody can escape from, because they "might learn something." Before breaking in, they realize their shoulder patches are different from what the inhabitants wear, so they smear mud on their patches so it "might disguise" the patches. Muddy uniforms for anonymity running around in an unfamiliar city? Really? Shockingly bad book from an author who usually does a lot better than this.