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Revenant Gun

Machineries of Empire, Book 3

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Revenant Gun

By: Yoon Ha Lee
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
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Machineries of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion!

When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he's a 17-year-old cadet - but his body belongs to a man decades older. Hexarch Nirai Kujen orders Jedao to reconquer the fractured hexarchate on his behalf, even though Jedao has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general. Surely a knack for video games doesn't qualify you to take charge of an army?

Soon Jedao learns the situation is even worse. The Kel soldiers under his command may be compelled to obey him, but they hate him thanks to a massacre he can't remember committing. Kujen's friendliness can't hide the fact that he's a tyrant. And what's worse, Jedao and Kujen are being hunted by an enemy who knows more about Jedao and his crimes than he does himself....

©2018 Yoon Ha Lee (P)2018 Recorded Books Military Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Solider
Genre Bending Originality • Solid Story • Clear Narration • Complex Hero • Interesting Worldbuilding • Effective Pacing
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Good world-building, bad character motivations and development, heavy usage of ex machina to progress the plot. The new Jedao character is boring as hell. Heavily eye-rolled most of the book.

Mixed bag

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A beautiful and epic capstone to a soul destroying series. These books are so good. The author is a tiny bit allergic to purely happy endings which is so hard because by now you're devastatingly attached to every single person in the series. It's a beautiful book.

Very rarely does something come along this utterly genre-bending and genuinely hardcore original, and in the Revenant Gun YHL totally sticks his landing.

devastatingly good hard scifi

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Revenant Gun is the 3rd installment in Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire trilogy. The Cheris/Jedao combo has been out of the picture for a while two forces initially vie for control of the new calendar, while a remaining Hexarc with the assistance of a new Jedao clone is attempting to reinstate the old calendar. Ironically, even though Cheris and the Jedao clone are ostensibly in opposition, they are aligned with regards to the barbaric customs that had maintained the original order, which can be traced to a Hexarc that is essentially immortal.

The sci-fi elements are in line with earlier installments with further exploration of both servitors which display rather advanced AI as well as a penchant for soap operas and the moth spaceships which turn out to grown, rather than made and display consciousness.

The narration is first rate with good character distinction with pacing and tone well suited to the pace of the plot.

Calendrical closure

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I was expecting more revelations and pyrotechnics after the build up in the previous volumes

Slightly low-key ending to an amazing trilogy

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this is a great book and the voice acting was well done, but there were so many parts where the volume of the voice actor changed so much from line the line that I constantly found myself either unable to hear the quiet parts or blowing out my eardrums for the loud parts

voice actor is great, but volume changes are not

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This series was recommended to me. I was not impressed with book 1. It was confusing and messy. About half way through book 2, I started liking the series. By the end of book 3, I was hoping for more books in this universe. Overall, I'm very glad to have read these books.

This series started rough but just kept getting better

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very enjoyable series. last installments are always tough. but this is great. very few areas i dont like. too much sex in this one. makes it hard to reccomend to a broader group of my friends. otherwise it would be a 10 out of 10 series across the board.

i absolutely love Emily woo zeller.

best reader besides william hurt

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The main female narrator voice was so soft I missed much of the story. What I could decipher was fun.

Fun story marred by poor narration

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I really liked the story, despite the kinda wishywashy calendrical magic stuff. The characters and worldbuildibg was solid.

Though I liked the narator in general, the sound volume was all over the place. Annoying when one second I’m barely able to hear anything and the next, my ears are falling of!

Good story, so-so production

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Nuff said stupid computer program designer! The requirement of reviews having at least words is dumb.

Complicated, Too long, Interesting to decipher.

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