Salvage Title

The Salvage Title Trilogy, Book 1

De: Kevin Steverson

Narrado por: KC Johnston

The Salvage Title journey begins!

They couldn’t afford a ship, much less the cost of registering one. But there is always a loophole....

Harmon Tomeral wanted nothing more than to go to space. Sent to an orphanage when his parents were killed in a sandstorm, the odds were stacked against him. Despite that, he made it to the academy and graduated in the top 10 percent of his class...only to find out the fleet did what it wanted, regardless of regulations, and he came from the wrong planet.

He didn’t give up his dream, though, because where there’s a will, there’s a loophole, and Harmon and his friends found their loophole in the Top Fleet Marine competition - the winner would get 100,000 credits, which would just be enough to start their own salvage company. If they could build a mech and win the competition, they would be set.

But the fleet had already shown they didn’t want him in space, so it would be an uphill fight. Good thing his friends and crew were very much against fleet regulations.

©2018 Kevin Steverson (P)2018 Kevin Steverson

The book was great- the audio is simply awesome

The story comes alive with this presentation. Even though I'd read the book when it first came out, this audio reading made the characters come alive in a whole new way. It was as if I was rereading an old story and rediscovering the wonder of its creation. I recommend this one to any and all who crave a good well told story.

Clever

I love protagonists who achieve their goals in clever ways. This book has that, plus humor.

All a bit too easy...

Main character was a bit of a Mary Sue, there was almost no character development. I enjoyed all of the tech and weapons and all the continuity. Buy in the end when every problem had a back pocket answer, it just killed the vibe of the story.

Good base and good potential

So this story has a great start. All possible, and the story starts out strong.

Now near the end is where the story fell for a. Four to a three. Some character growth was just so after school specialish. Overall the story is a good fun shorter listen. Given it a chance if you need a new space opera.

This is a good first book for the author and his mistakes should be easy fix as he gets more experience.

This was an unbiased review left in return for a free copy of the book.

Great Book

Ordinarily i do not select books under 8hrs in length. I took a chance on this one, because it had great reviews while in print. I think the Narrator is new to Audibles. Anyway, i'm glad i did.

Story line is unique, Characters are colorful, and the narrator paints a good visual picture for the listener to follow.
Everyone who likes a good under-dog story (like i do), this one is for you.

Constructive Criticism:
I hope books 2 & 3 are a little longer and come out real soon.
I would like to see more background info on the Planets

good performance

I enjoyed the book. I reccomend buying it.

fix , or find it. some stuff needs salvaging.

Space Opposums and Fantastic Narration!

This was a fun book. If you like military Sci-Fi with a twist, you'll love this book! You'll find the main character discriminated against, where he's only allowed to be a military reserve, even when he's more talented than anyone in the military. This book has it all, a fantastic crew, mechs, and an awesome AI. And don't forget about the Space Opossums!

Lot's of great action and humor, and the narrator does a fantastic job with the narration, giving each character a distinct voice that makes you eager to listen throughout!

I liked it, but...

I read the first 3 books, and enjoyed them.
I am an absolute junkie for scifi, ship scifi, and have a special place in my heart for salvage/privateer stories.
Ships, mechs, ect are cool and all.
That being said... had the vibe of a 80s military fiction or fantasy book in some ways. Not the corny kind, more the Things Work Out and the mc, who makes the right choices + is lucky wins, and because other people try to do bad to mc, mc wins and gets better and better advantages.
However, the beginning, which should have probably been spread over its own book, was literally - in this chapter the mc randomly gets this big bonus. Now, because of this, mc wins at life. Mc fortuitous snowball to avalanche, activate!
lot of telling, not showing summaries and wierd characters become lifelong bffs with other characters after a week type stuff. There is also a very sudden and then repeated ideology bomb, where two groups are compared and basically, it felt like an odd, light Christian republican rub and tug where they bashed things like free housing, gun control, ect, and made all people from that planet corrupt baddies while making the cowboyesque nitty gritty gun toting people from mc, who believe in a creator, (as seemingly all good guys do) the good people.
I dunno, if it wasn't for the setting and particularly the salvage/privateer stuff, idk if I would have kept reading, its a little much at times but still lots of good.

Definitely Worth It!

I got this book as an experiment to see if I would like it, and boy was it worth it! The entire Salvage Title Universe is highly recommended. This is a GREAT series with action, adventure, a touch of comedy and romance, and no foul language. It's great for the whole family!

Pleasantly Suprised

I know I really shouldn't decide what a book's about by the cover, but it's a good cover! I like space ships and I'm a niche fan of stories about deep space salvagers making their livelihoods from the refuse of space. Maybe they hit it big on a battlefield, maybe the find ancient alien civilizations, maybe they just methodically build an empire of rubbish.

Well, I wasn't super wrong or anything. You get all that and a few bonuses. In no particular order: Mech Combat, Space Georgia (You might mistake it for Space Texas, but there are subtle differences for the connoisseur), demure space hotties, lots of alien snacking (not a euphemism) and Space Possums in lipstick (presumably Space Lipstick). You also get some great voice acting. Only Southerners can do Southern accents, so KC Johnston brings much needed twang and drawl to those characters what need it, but still elocutes worthily in very important "funny alien" and "hungry alien" roles as well as the critical "clear narrator" role.

What you're not getting is a very arduous, po-faced milsf full of grim and graphic. Things aren't all laughs, it's got some bloody bleak moments that would seriously scar a person experiencing them firsthand, but the effect on the reader is limited to understanding what the characters are going through without needing to finish the book feeling like Lev Tolstoy has been hitting them with it for 7 hours. I really wanted to just say it's all light and air and irreverence because that's impression I'm left with.

I'm writing as I've just gotten the third book in the trilogy and I'm going to relisten to the first two before I start it. Not because I might have forgotten some critical plot details, but because I just want to. It's a fun way to spend ~7 hours while playing vidya.