Lords of War

Star Crusades: Mercenaries, Book 1

By: Michael G. Thomas

Narrated by: Steven Morgan

Lords of War is the first novel in the best-selling Star Crusades: Mercenaries series that follows the violent struggles of the Alliance, mankind's first interstellar empire.

Spartan is a living legend, a veteran of the Alliance Marine Corps, victor of a multitude of military campaigns including the horrific Biomech War. He is both loved and reviled by friend and foe alike, and now lives out on the fringes of the Alliance. He has fought for money, for his people and for the very survival of his species, and lost everything in the process. But when two of his closest friends are captured supplying weapons to the desperate Byotai settlers of Karnak, the fight becomes personal.

The Great Biomech War left millions dead, colonies burned, and cities turned to ash. Millions more continue to endure in the harshest of conditions. The Alliance attempts to restore order, yet already new enemies have begun to strike at will, encouraged by their weakness. Border planets succumb to the raids of warlords, and many doubt how long the peace will last, after it was won at such cost.

Since the end of this war, Spartan and his friends have worked to create an elite fighting force based at Taxxu, for use by the Alliance. Using the latest high-energy weapons, armored fighting suits and a prototype Confederate-class warship, it will be a force unlike any the Alliance has seen before. Spartan will use this and every other asset at his disposal to save his friends. Nothing, not even the entire might of the invading Anicinàbe clans and their fearsome clan leaders, can stop him, even if it means starting his own private war.

Star Crusades: Mercenaries is the third Star Crusades series, and is set in the aftermath of the apocalyptic Biomech War. The war may have been won, but after nine long years the future still looks bleak. Entire planets remain devastated, and millions of citizens are homeless.

©2014 Michael G. Thomas (P)2015 Swordworks Books

Painful

I typically can get into rhythm with any narrator bit not this one. I give up

Talk's to fast

What would have made Lords of War better?

I was unable to follow the book due the how fast it was going. Even at 0.75 it was unfollowable.

play at .5 speed

story isn't bad...but the reader is so bad. I turned down playback to .5 and could follow. although sounds like a drunk read it then.

Not a bad book but bad narration

What didn’t you like about Steven Morgan’s performance?

The pacing was too fast and nothing was accentuated. Also the word is e·pit·o·me not e·pit·ome.

Who picked this guy to read the book?

The guy ready the book nearly ruined the whole story. This series is great but the ready mispronounced over a dozen common words and the multiple sections that repeat. Also, why would you pick a nasally weenie sounding guy to read a book about hardened warriors? If I hadn't paid $13 for this book I would have stopped listening. Does anybody at Audible proof listen?

Worst Voice-over I have EVER heard.

This guy is beyond monotonous in his delivery using the same rises and falls in tone no matter what the story calls for. Characters are betrayed as whispering their lines in the heat of battle even when clearly more emotional, or any, is required. Honestly I couldn't get all the way through the book becuase the voice "acting" is so bad.

do not buy

naration was crap, couldn't tell you if the story was any good because of Steven Morgan's life ruining performan. I almost want to give up audible because they would put that out there

Fire that narrator!!!

worst narrator ever...could only take in short doses...might have rated story highef if it had bdgtef narrator

Lords of War stunk up the place more than the neighborhood skunk!

By the time "Audible hopes you've enjoyed this......." Gave us the friendly notice that the book was over, I was a drooling, dazed, walking dead that felt like I had been run over by a Mack truck. I have never listened to such a terrible narrator! From the opening syllables to the ending ringing in my ears, it was one long sentence done at breakneck speed with a monotone Extrodinare! I was so disappointed because the little intro laid out all the essentials for my kind of Sci Fi. Isn't there an editor who looks the books over before he turns them out?

sigh, voices

the narrator just straight up need to understand that this is not speak and spell. I could not even finish a third of the book. But I do hear every worf crystal-clear, there is just nothing alive about the constant stream of words being said.

the book? dont know, will buy them in paper form instead.