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Living Starship 1

The Last Symbiotes, Book 1

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Living Starship 1

By: Dante King
Narrated by: Heather Stonewell, Wayne Kelly
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Captain James Decker has lived a life of hunting, killing, and earning credits.

To some, it hasn’t amounted to much, but to him, it’s led to him captaining the SC Fortune, a space cruiser with a competent crew that he’s grown fond of.

After accepting a bounty hunting mission with a beautiful blonde woman as the mark, Decker finds himself soon without a ship and a crew. But as luck would have it, this same mission gives him back what he lost: a new ship and a new crew.

This ship is composed of what seems like organic material, and the sole crew member he finds on board is the same beautiful blonde whose bounty he took.

Turns out that this woman is what is known to very few as a symbiote, and she’s one of the last ones left. She has a mission for Decker: seek out her sisters and bring them all together. While not a typical mission for Decker, the symbiote’s request, should he honor it, will lead to more credits than any planet president, let alone bounty hunter, has laid eyes on.

It’ll mean becoming captain of a new ship, a living starship, and seeking out the last symbiotes all the way to the cosmic horizon.

This book contains unconventional relationships.

©2022 Dante King (P)2023 Podium Audio Adventure Military Science Fiction Space Opera
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Well, this is a small case of "Don't have expectations."
Not that this book isn't great... It's just that I expected something a bit less serious and more playful.
After I got over the initial disappointment, I got into the story and love it.
Can't wait to get into book 2.
Captain of a ship of bounty hunters, our MC, Decker, is going to save the species of symbiotes.
Of course he needs to connect with them, in order to "connect" with them, if you catch my drift. 😉
I'm giving this book 7.5 out of 5 stars.

Looks like I'm going to be loving this series.

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I have written many books by Dante King. This is definitely one of the better ones. I enjoyed the strip description for each of the characters the action was good, but not overwhelming, and you could easily route for MC
The narrator’s were also excellent, and brought real emotion to the characters

One of the authors better books

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Love love love the narrators, both of them. as the title says, I loved the story. A great space-opera with harem elements and spicy scenes... What more can a guy ask for?

Brilliant Story with Steamy Elements

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I love a good spicey sci fi novel. This was not it, and I might say that the male voice talent perhaps was a big part of it. His attempts at the gravelly, grizzled voice fell flat to me. To the point I was making an effort to tune him out.

ok but not running for book 2

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I can tell that the story would be great, but this audiobook has a major drawback that is preventing it from having its greatness. The MMCs voice. The VA is trying his best to have a gravelly world weary tone to the main character's voice but it comes out in such a way that it is mentally exhausting to listen to. I had to stop listening to this at work because I was falling asleep listening to him talk.

Even the spicy scenes were lackluster because of his voice. I actually believe that this would have benefited from not having them and having a different form of "Bonding" with the symbiotes. The intimacy would have been better as a byproduct of the bond forming an emotional attachment through the books progression

A possibly good story

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the MC voice is crap! who said, "Oh yeah, this voice is good"? he should have just used his regular narrator voice. it's obvious that he is struggling to maintain a deep, raspy tone. which, by the way, makes the MC sound old man passed his prime. the inner monolog is excessive to the point I skip past it. probably could have cut 2 hours out of the story. the intimate scenes are short, not very creative, and the MC is a one & done kinda guy.

Narration and internal monolog !!

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This is a unique take on the idea of a living ship. Not sure where the author came up with the concept but it works in the story arc

Unique take

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love the story only thing is probally add 2 more voice actors to give it better range but otherwise impressive

Impressive

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The male narrator is monotone through the entire book and has a lot of mispronunciations. Female narrator did a good job though.

The story builds intensity then stops it all when the mc veers off into bombastic bloviating statements.

Not really worth a credit

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Story had potential. But the writing was a bit weak and predictable, and I found the characters saying things that didn't make sense. And, unfortunately, the narrator of the main character made him sound mad and pissed off, even when he was supposed to be happy. Usually I try to stick it out to see where the series will go, but not this time. They tried to make a cliff hanger at the end, but didn't build any of that till the last chapter. Too little, too late.

Meh.

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