
Governor
Ascent to Empire, Book 1
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Jonathan Davis
For more than fifty years, the Terran Republic and the Terran League have been killing one another.
The death toll has climbed ever higher, year after year, with no end in sight. But the members of the Five Hundred, the social elite of the Republic's Heart Worlds, don't care.
Rear Admiral Terrence Murphy is a Heart Worlder. His family is part of the Five Hundred. His wife is the daughter of one of the Five Hundred's wealthiest, most powerful industrialists. His sons and his daughter can easily avoid military service, and political power is his for the taking. There is no end to how high he can rise in the Republic's power structure.
All he has to do is successfully complete a risk-free military "governorship" in the backwater Fringe System of New Dublin without rocking the boat. But the people sending him to New Dublin have miscalculated because Terrence Murphy is a man who believes in honor. He believes in duty—in common decency and responsibility. He believes there are dark and dangerous secrets behind the façade of what "everyone knows."
Terrence Murphy intends to meet those responsibilities, to unearth those secrets, and he doesn't much care what the Five Hundred want. He intends to put a stop to the killing.
Terrence Murphy is coming for whoever has orchestrated fifty-six years of bloodshed and slaughter, and Hell itself is coming with him.
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Another great series
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Slow start but fun
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excellent story
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Excellent character development and descriptions.
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To further complicate matters, there is an intelligent and dangerous alien race in the picture whom the reader will immediately realize is trying to use the human civil strife to weaken both polities so that the aliens can emerge as dominant.
This is a great novel with a carefully balanced mix of politics and action. The most unsettling aspects for me was how the Republic's leadership viciously turns on the hero of the novel turning him into a traitor, because if they admitted he had saved the day they would have had to admit how badly they have administered the war. (This isn’t a spoiler. The next novel is titled Rebel.)
After spending a couple of decades in the Honorverse, It’s nice to see Weber developing a new, equally exciting, sf military series.
A Great New Series
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Could not get enough
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Exceptional world-building, and a compelling story
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Once the characters were introduced, the plot started developing and I got into the characters.
Started slow. Got interesting.onen the main characters when introduced
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addictive story
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The narrator is also one of those that whispers some character’s dialog which really hurts the listening experience for people who listen in a car with road noise. I feel like that’s something that shouldn’t still be happening in audiobooks.
Wordy
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