East of the Sun, West of the Moon

By: John Ringo

Narrated by: Tim Fannon

Swords, Sex, and Rockets!

Paradise falls. Humanity is thrown back to an age of steel and blood. Now the fuel that powers the "changed" world is up for grabs in an orbiting spacecraft. With only days to plan, rough and ready paladin Herzer Herrick must assemble a team of expert warriors capable of both seat-of-the-pants engineering and hand-to-hand combat in space. In the meantime, Herzer must face his own demons as he waits for his emotionally-scarred fiancé to recover and finally bed him. And if that's not enough, there's a horde of "changed" orcs and goblins who are intent on delivering the power above to their totalitarian masters below. This is one space race free humanity cannot afford to lose!

Multiple New York Times and USA Today best seller John Ringo delivers another rousing entry in his Council Wars saga!

©2006 John Ringo (P)2021 Recorded Books

Sci-fi & historcsl fiction do it for me

Thoroughly enjoy seeing the complex. The continues to occur in these stories were a futuristic society is knocked back into the times of the second millennium.

poor editing

I like the story. I have enjoyed all of John Ringo's books.
This book the editing sucks, poor voice match on insertions. It is jarring to listen to Tim Fannon and find that in the middle of the text he is reading someone has inserted some minor text using perhaps a different person to read those few words or someone used a different recording studio.
I hope that this book is renarrated / rerecorded.

Quite good

The first two books of this series had several annoying/irritating elements, as I've expressed in those specific reviews. Book 3 was basically an excellent balance of "wow, that's cool" and "oh ffs really, again with this nonsense?".

Book four now, well, I've got to admit I've *really* been enjoying it. About 4/5ths of the way through, and hoping it doesn't go south on me, as I'm really enjoying the further developments of several main characters.

One thing I found *truly* fucking irritatingly was the "goblin" voiced. The actor spoke with such a high pitch, odd accent, and ridiculously high speed. After listening to the dialog at normal speed 5 times, I had to reduce it to .50% speed, and even then! I was barely able to understand what the fuck he was saying. That's really fucking irritating. I mean, God damn, why should I have to go through that much effort just to hear what the fuck is going on?

I really enjoyed this 1

great series I have really enjoyed listening to this. the narration is very well done.

very enjoyable production

I really enjoyed this series . the supply of fuel is due for resupply and must be controlled to prevent the other side from taking it all.

Entertaining

Continued good storytelling by John Ringo. Really good narration by Tim. Looking forward to next in series!

Definitely a sequel

Do you remember when you first saw Return of the Jedi and you were like "Wow that looked really cool" but in your heart you knew that Empire Strikes Back was a better movie?

This book is like that.

To make it worse, Megan went from a powerful hero overcoming exceptional obstacles in the last book to a whiny, fearful girl here. What happened?

That said I am sad the series is over. I don't think John Ringo expects to write a fifth book, so I will take my sad Return of the Jedi self and look for a new book series--which will probably be another series by John Ringo. LOL

I'm tired of too much S&M and rape fantasies

I like John Ringo's book very much but towards the end of the series all the sexual innuendos and foreshadowing cum out in full force. This includes S&M, rape fantasies and so much more. When saving the world is the most important story line possible there is always time for the hero thinking about how he hopes he don't lose control of your secret bondage urgings and...it goes on and on. It feels like it was written for the 12 year old with a flashlight and a towel under the covers at night.

One more thing, if you want to use f**ck as your primary expletive just use it. It just sound ridiculous to keep saying "fisk this or fisk that.

Good story - socially backward

The plot is fine, if sometimes a bit obvious, but entertaining. The outdated somewhat misogynistic dismissal of women does not age well. Also some of the concepts don't make sense in that basic caveman level intelligence is dismissed as lost.