Shawshank

Superb writing and superb narration!

Reviewed: 06-19-25

This is my first book I’ve listened to by the author Slater. It was absolutely enjoyable and frankly I had a very hard time putting it down! When I got distracted and kind of gathered a general sense of what was said, I still went back to re-listen and get the details because it was that good. Now I’m off to book 2!

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Volume 1? Victory in my book

Reviewed: 04-26-25

Let’s see…
Morley crew? (Not the band)
Walking dead that are kinda not dead?
Protagonist who is also an asshat?
- Check
- Check
- and Check
Some decent gunslinging?
A shift to the only true slent round when suppressed?
Asshat officers who are way over the top in Douchbaggery?
- Check
- Check
- and definitely Check

It’s a fun listen people. Good guys who are pretty good guys and bad guys who are just bad. KISS

I think people will enjoy this. Especially my brothers who enjoy a laying of the murder-hate on some zombies? What’s not to like?

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A Hilarious Mil SF blast!

Reviewed: 03-22-25

I found nothing I did not enjoy about this book and am about to crank off book 2! Cain was a very relatable character I found, and his AI functioned as much as I would expect one with limited capabilities to perform and not be some wise cracking jokester so many in these types of books are.if your a fan of military space action, I think you’ll dig it.

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Yes it’s over the top SOF Run n Gun book, However comma

Reviewed: 03-08-25

It was still an enjoyable. Ok for the one-liners alone, new ones and also this old school military lines that make you chuckle. I cannot recall about the books after this one, but I’m rolling through “Listen #2” and I have unread books that I’m looking forward to listening to, but Senior Chief called out to me for one more run -thru.
I believe from a military weapons perspective the author nailed it quiets well, even on his ballistic data on subsonic 7.62x51 (my all time favorite sub. (Not the 300 BLK, although that has its place too, but his AO called for a little more distance while being damn close to Hollywood quiet. The few times he was inside he drew the ol’ benerable 1911 in guy punching .45 with a can. I’m no SEAL, but I can see the advantages with that caliber, but round limitations suck. But hey. He’s ABC XYZ AND all the other alphabet soup dudes.

I hope you enjoy.

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Absolutely Superb in every way a book can be superb!

Reviewed: 01-18-25

I enjoy DJ’s books. Rather, I have enjoyed every book by DJ Molles I have read. This is the first Mil / Sci-Fi book by DJ I’ve read and by the title of my review you can correctly assume I absolutely enjoyed it. Of course with every book 📕 Vincent action I do get impatient with the first internal dialogue, but I realized that’s like literally in every single action book I’ve read or listened to. I also thought that all those books would have been a little shorter had they not included it, which is not to say I’m a proponent of it, being a veteran, I am more in the camp of, “Just kill them.” But I’m not an author, I sit on the other side of that equation, so I stick to saying what I like and what I don’t like and try to not pretend that I actually know better when I don’t. There are a lot of reviewers in the land of Audible who - at least by the content of their reviews consider themselves the worlds greatest author or at least the worlds greatest critic. I am neither. I’m just a guy who enjoys a well-written and well narrated book and that’s exactly what this is.

My first reaction after finishing this book was to hit my browser and search for “the coming dark by DJ molles book 2?” Unfortunately, I didn’t find any results, but this book is prime for a series.

I truly hope you enjoy it as thoroughly as I did. The book reads like a great deal of effort was put into it. It’s pretty obvious to me that DJ didn’t sit down and just throw a bunch of words together. The characters have depth, the characters evolve (some anyway) and the action is pretty damn good.

I hope that someone who follows DJ on social media (I don’t really do social media) will ask Mr. Molles to get hot if he hasn’t already on the 2nd, 3rd, etc books because this one will be quite an adventure.

Thanks for reading.

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It was great. In spite of the protagonist being a D-Bag the first 2/3rds of the book

Reviewed: 01-11-25

I enjoyed it. I really did. The main character was an asshole throughout most of the book but hey!! The author turned that around too. Some tactics are absolutely unbelievable, some situations are like “are you kidding me??” But OVERALL it was fun. Yeah mostly fun. Hell I bought the 2nd book and I have other in-listened-to books I can listen to but I chose to spend a credit on book 2 and will listen to it now. Later!!

Hey seriously, you’ll probably enjoy this so just…..

Pull. That. Trigger.

Shawshank

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I Waited Months & Months Before Deciding to Purchase this Book…

Reviewed: 11-17-24

I had listened to the preview of this audiobook at least 5-7 times but didn’t feel the “pull” to purchase and listen to it. Then a couple of days ago it showed up again. This time was different. I looked at the title and reread the summary, and felt a smile crease my face. I KNEW it was time. Granted there were moments when I was listening to the preview where I thought, “yeah, I’ll probably listen to this book…some day.” But a few days ago I KNEW it was time. I had become a little disenchanted with the books in my favorite genre - generally Military Thrillers and being a veteran, those types of books have always been in my wheelhouse. I get the mindset, I understand the vernacular, and yeah I get frustrated when the narrator’s mispronounce military acronyms. But that’s what I like. What I didn’t like so much was the rampant cussing. Hey I’m not being a hypocrite, I invented cusswords in the Army, heck I was known as an NCO who could create cusswords on the fly all why smoking my maggots aka soldiers. I’ll admit it got very creative in those days, but things changed. My heart - as hard and black as it was - was changed, and then it was not longer acceptable to degrade my soldiers in such a manner. (That didn’t mean I didn’t smoke them still because I did, I just didn’t call their mama bad names or invent cusswords while “motivating” them, which I later realized was demoralizing them. So, I can’t explain why this book slapped me up side the head and I knew that I knew now was the time, but being your average knuckle dragger, I followed the orders of my “knower” and bought it. This is one of the very few books where if I thought I didn’t fully hear EVERY SINGLE WORD, I would go back to the beginning of of the chapter and I regret not one single time of doing that. This books does an amazing job at integrating some solid action, some “I got through that by the skin of my teeth” moments, while applying some sound spiritual - not just spiritual but Christian principles. I don’t know what book 2 holds, but this book was a true gem of authorship and narrating prowess. I’d give this book 10/10 I’d that were possible. I don’t doubt some listeners will rail on the spiritual aspects of this book, but let’s be honest - if they rail against the boo, they very likely have an amber if not red glow around their eyes. If you read a review like that, I’d suggest praying for those folks because they are probably just lost - unaware of Truth. Perhaps they have been suckered into the lie that “everyone has their own truth and there is no absolute truth, like the Truth of God’s Word. Do I recommend this book?

Hell to the yeah I do!!!

p.s. forgive my misspellings, I do need better glasses. Oh and more obedient thumbs. ;-)

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Love this story and series, but……..

Reviewed: 11-13-24

There are some holes. As an example, when the 5 dudes get to a certain town, 2 stay behind and 3 press forward, the command, was basically “call me if something goes south” instead of protocol which would have set periodic comm checks. Thats how it’s done especially in a non-permissive/asynchronous env. It’s what we do. But that would not facilitate the D-Bag situation which followed. So the average person who never has operated in such environments accepts that gross faux pas. Me? And my brothers?


A GROSS VIOLATION.

Square your shit away and get it right and right author.

p.s. other than that DAI (Dumb Ass Idea) and a few others, it has been enjoyable.

Just as an aside I truly searched for synonyms of the words I really thought as wrote this review. so if you’re wondering why ShawShank didn’t say it like this or that and where are the creatively inventive F-Bomb words - trust me Brother, they were in my head.

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Really good book and really good series.

Reviewed: 11-06-24

I enjoyed the whole book. I like the characters, lots of action, good heroes and evil bad guys and some solid twists here and there. I definitely recommend if if you aren’t a huge Chair Force fan!

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A Very Good Conclusion to a Fantastic Series

Reviewed: 11-02-24

I have this book 5/5 stars for several reason.
1. The Narrator absolutely killed it. Maybe I would rate it 5 stars with another narrator, but I highly doubt it.
2. The story itself was engaging, and the key characters were thought out and even consistent. The only issue I had was with Ragnanor - I didn’t know what he was. Human or what?
3. It was just a fun read. I like the author and he didn’t disappoint.
4. It was nice to actually finish a story in 3 books. There are a few series I’m reading where I am waiting for the next book in line. This guy popped out the worlds, the aliens, destruction and victory in 3 volumes. Well done.

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