Saxon Max 2: War Chief

De: JG Jerome

Narrado por: Jonathan Waters, Maeve York

In September 2019, Max Morgan boarded a vintage Beech Twin aircraft with the five ladies from his office and the three-person flight crew for a flight to Sheridan, Wyoming. Max’s boss had scheduled a team-building exercise for survival training, so they had bags packed with camping gear, firearms, and ammunition.

Then the aircraft hit a mysterious vortex in the air that pulled them inexorably toward the west at a dizzying speed. That vortex dumped their aircraft back in time in northern Germany 1,700 years earlier.

How are Max, the six remaining women from his flight, and the two orphans he rescued going to survive as they help their Saxon neighbors try to survive Frankish raids and the coming Roman army?

Warning: This book includes unusual relationships, descriptions of violence, slavery, and loose interpretations of historical events. If that’s not your thing, then please skip this book with the author’s blessing.

©2022 JG Jerome (P)2024 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

This is a GREAT story!

I've always like when someone mixes modern day military tactic in a medieval world. Max does this and crushes everyone in his path. However, he has to convince the other chiefs that his way of fighting is best and that he should be the one to train their combined forces. This brings now comes Basic Training to this new reality.

There are a lot of other things that are going on at the same time...like his relationships. There is someone waiting to join Max's harem, and he has a child on the way. Let's not forget the 2 kids he basically adopted in book 1. All-in-all this is an excellent sequel to the first book and I'm looking forward to the next one.

I was given a free code for this audiobook in exchange for an early and honest review.

Time-traveling team-building gone wild!

Saxon Max 2: War Chief by JG Jerome, narrated by Jonathan Waters and Maeve York is a time-traveling team-building gone wild adventure! Jerome's writing will transport you back in time to Northern Germany, where Max and his team are forced to survive in a dangerous world full of Frankish raids and the Roman army, all while adapting to a new way of life. Waters and York do a fantastic job narrating, bringing the characters and the story to life with their engaging performances. If you're a fan of time-traveling survival stories, "Saxon Max 2: War Chief" is a must-read (or listen)!

5 stars

Another great book by J G Jerome. You will not be disappointed. Also the dual narration really brings the story to life. I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Warchief Max

I received a free copy to give my honest opinion, trying to minimize spoilers. This book continues right where the last book left off. Max and his ladies adapt to their new environment. They earned the local's respect and use their future knowledge to survive and organize a resistance against the Roman empire and her allies. Overall a fun book you can enjoy.

HOT DAMN!!! need the next book

OMG what a great series! i know that the author has another job but i desperately wish the next book would come out soon. It is good to get a refresher from the first book but is not 100% necessary. lots of fun, and great story.

I liked the story line. it needs to progress.

You need to write a book 3 of Saxon Max and continue the story with the other wifes and grow the family.

Strong adventure & characters overcome story flaws

As required by U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations and Audible requirements, I am disclosing that I was given a free review copy of this audiobook at my request. I have listened to the audiobook, and I have voluntarily left an honest review. Receiving a review copy did not influence my rating nor my review.

“Saxon Max 2: War Chief” is enjoyable, but is not without its flaws. I’ll get the flaws out of the way and then address what I liked.

The author is proud (as he says in the afterword) of his research into history to make the trip back 1700 years as realistic as possible. Unfortunately, there are so many details of village names, tribes, changing weapons etc that my ears glazed over frequently. I don’t know that much about the history of the time, so I can’t speak to the accuracy of the details…with one exception. A league is three miles; not 1.5 (nautical miles are slightly more). It did sort of drive me crazy every time distance and time were presented as a league being 1.5 miles.

My bigger frustration with Book 2 was with a couple of the women. Jennifer is portrayed as a gold-star lesbian, but she can’t keep her hands off Max’s junk, names her favorite dildo “Big Bob”, and wants to sleep with Max over and over and over once she decides she wants a baby. I’ve never met a lesbian IRL or in literature who wants a man as much as does Jenn. The other woman who’s at odds with her presented back story is Siobhan. She’s reluctant to have relations with anyone after having been gang-assaulted years ago, yet loves and wants to have sex with Max. Okay, so far so good. But, at one point she says she wishes Max would just take her so that she would be free of having to take the initiative. Errr, no….hard no.

Finally, I was surprised that with all the violence and death everywhere, that Max would make it such as mission to free one particular a trader and the trader’s wife and daughter that he would place himself and others he loves and for whom he’s responsible at risk of injury or death. No spoiler, but yup….I called it.

I hope you’re still with me, because after my first few paragraphs you’re probably wondering whether this is a fake review with high stars given to a crap book. Let me be clear from here on: this is a very good book, despite the aforementioned flaws.

I don’t mind that Max is a bit of a superhero; I’ve grown tired of stories with overweight, unemployed kids living in their mom’s basement becoming the one true one once transported to another world. Max is ex-military and puts his knowledge of weaponry and strategy to great use throughout the book as he trains folks to resist the Franks and Romans. At one point, he considers whether he might be changing history, but decides that as long has he and his wives and friends are here, he’ll do what it takes to keep them alive. I don’t read lots of time travel stories, but this makes sense to me!

Max also brings some 21st century sensibilities to his 4th century life. When a local girl reaches marrying age for her time (16yo), Max insists she wait two years until she’s 18yo to marry him. Also, Max abhors slavery and taking women without their consent, and works to free slaves and help assaulters have a quicker conversation with their god about their deeds than they might have planned! BTW, I recently saw a conversation thread on Reddit where several folks blasted the author as having a r*pe fetish. I have no idea how they interpreted that! While there is plenty of 4th century violence and assaults, the author uses his MC to express revulsion.

With all of the battle action and deaths, it may sound odd, but this story is very much a slice-of-life story. The epilogue jars us out of the time period, once again, but the ongoing teaser with Wodan will supposedly become a bigger part of the overall story with the next episode.

The narration by both VA’s was wonderful; I encourage the audiobook over the Kindle version. They earn 5*, and the story earns 4*. Overall, I rate Saxon Max 2 with 4.5*, which I’m rounding to 5*.

Great continuation

Pacing is really good, story doesn’t lag or stall but doesn’t rush either. Very interesting location and time period. Character progression is sensible and nobody is too important to be a casualty. It’s a brutal era for everyone not just the Mobs or NPC villagers. (This isn’t game-lit, that’s just what I call non-central characters). I like how the afterword kind of puts things into perspective from the author’s standpoint.

Fantastic

This is the second book and it’s even better than the first a bit of a sad ending on this one but it’s an amazing story

what a sequel

when it comes to a sequel and basically looking for everything that made the last one worth it and then some. in my opinion this book reaches that bar. the narration team is quickly become one of my favorites definitely within my top 10. the writing is solid all around and ultimately the question always is whether or not I was entertained which I am happy to report that I was. I do recommend this story to anybody looking for a light story with a side of spice. lastly I'm simply going to say Well done to everybody who had a hand in bringing this story to us, the audiobook listeners.