To Valor's Bid

Monster Girls in Space, Book 1

By: M. Tress

Narrated by: Jack Smith, Anne Marie Lebeaur

Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

Desmond McLaughlin was just getting through his life and trying to survive. A 9-5 job and a hobby that cost more than it earned left him just enough money to afford a crappy apartment and time to dream of something better. He was expecting to spend most of his life like this.

He hadn’t expected to be greeted by a CIA agent waiting inside his house one evening. He wasn’t expecting that CIA agent to tell him that he was being drafted for a special mission. And he really wasn’t expecting to basically get kidnapped.

But most of all, he wasn’t expecting to be told two important things. One, aliens were out there. And two, they wanted to take him as the first of the locals drafted from his planet to go to one of the few super-dreadnought class starships in the Hegemony and learn magic.

Join Desmond as he learns to manipulate mana — a source of power that exists beyond the reach of most people in the universe — meets vastly different alien species, risks life and limb, all while trying to pass classes. If he’s lucky, he will find someone he can trust out here amongst the weird. If he's very lucky, maybe someone he can love.

©2024 M.Tress (P)2024 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Really really good.

This book sets up the story of an excellent world and with excellent characters. Its voiced excellently and the ending was especially spectacular. I wish your next audio release is swift.

Good story/pace/narration

There are sections in the narration that seem extremely challenging. Also some pronunciation issues with specific words that I had to rewind and re listen to just ensure I heard something right. Some of it is nit pic-key, I still give high marks. I guess I am so used to some of the British pronunciations it sort of was odd. Also, I think there are some audio quality issues , where it’s like the baritone of the male actor’s voice sort of winds up running into issues. I am not sure if it’s the audio quality or just the voice depth and my headphones.

Loved everything

I have read this before and was waiting for this to become an audible to relive the book. I will say this didn’t disappoint . I will say there was a couple audio issue I noticed some clipping and peaking at some points. But overall loved it and cannot wait for the next audible of book 2-4.

Excellent story and world building

I loved the relationship between the MC and his love interest. The narrators brought thr characters to life and it made for a great weekend listen. Can't wait to get the other books in the series!

Amazing Series Must Read

Love this series so much as the world building characters are rememberable and amusing! Only issue is the rest of the series is not out yet!

I like it.

the story is interesting.
MC seems ok bit of a dunce but that is the standard .
the characters are well written.
want to know the next parts

Very well done, can't wait for the other ones!

There were a few minor things to overlook, like how they pronounced certain words, but overall it was very well done and I never got dragged out of the story by the narrations. The story itself is very good and I truly can't wait for more of the books to be done in audio as that is how I prefer to experience books when on the go.

pretty friggin fantastic.

enjoyed this one all the way through. there were some hiccups and repeated lines, but the story is fun and the challenges presented are always solved in a creative manner. narration is great and narrators used effects for phone calls and the like which helped with immersion for the reader. very quality work. a credit well spent. I look forward to the sequel

Good Start to a new series

Absolutely loved it, unique style and ideas. MC is not the typical whiny type or the op who thinks he knows everything. He’s just your average guy thrown into a crazy situation. Best new series looking forward to more.

Awesome

this was so good and honestly I was hooked from the moment the mc didn't just go straight up with the government guy at the start Honestly that was refreshing because usually on this genre mc just goes with whoever shows up. and the rest of the story was just awesome and definitely a slow burn on both story and spicy bits also I really like the bit of info we get before the start of each chapter I feel like it add more to the story