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  • Rumors of War

  • Green Zone War, Book 1
  • By: Jake Elwood
  • Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
  • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (944 ratings)

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Rumors of War

By: Jake Elwood
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
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Publisher's summary

Tom Thrush thinks basic officer training is tough - until he joins the frigate Kestrel and finds out what tough really means. The crew resents him. The first officer is actively hostile. As the ship hunts pirates in deep space, Tom struggles to fit in and wonders if things can get any worse. They can.

A devastating attack leaves the ship crippled with half the crew dead or dying. The senior officers are wiped out, leaving a terrified sublieutenant in the last place he wants to be.

In command.

©2018 Jake Elwood (P)2018 Podium Publishing
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Enjoyable

Enjoyable, a little slow in beginning, but picks up and grips you to the characters.

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Great story !!

Really good story with great character development !! I really enjoyed book one and am looking forward to book two ! Only problem I had was with the narrator’s volume when the main character is thinking . It gets a little low where you need to turn the volume up or miss his “thoughts “. Overall though, it’s a great listen !!!

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Excellent second book.

You'll enjoy the book. Excellent story and performance. Glad to see these quality of books in the free catalog. Thanks

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decent story but a bit slow

fun interesting story good narration the only problem I had was its a bit slow but overall good read

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Love the writing, very relatable

Great listen or read. Highly Would recommend to anyone, especially to sci-fi fans. Great job, not too fast or too slow. Engaging.

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Overall good book

Basically a good story, but I have NEVER seen a published book with such overuse of a word. To manage using "Aft" twice just several words apart (though separate sentences), was not a complete surprise, but perhaps overachieving in the overuse category.
If it was not necessary to constantly adjust the volume because the narrator drops his voice so low when the main character is thinking, the book would have been far less frustrating with constantly needing to rewind, turn up volume, then be prepared to turn down quickly when voice was at normal level again.

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Why the whispering

The book is fine, the narrator has some weird thing of actually whispering and not stage whisper but drop to 1/4th or lower volume to say something like the narrator is worried the listener might hear it... It's just odd, whom is that for? Sometimes you can still make it out but you often have to stop rewind raise the volume hear it again, then stop reduce volume and start again. If you have it loud enough to hear the whispers everyone is screaming, and if you have it at normal talking volume the whispers are not audible.

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Great start

I have a new series to get into and enjoy. Love the main character and the voice actor

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4.33 stars

I downloaded this book while waiting for another on my wish list. I went in with expectations of mediocre story and was very pleasantly surprised. While this is the classic trope of rookie officer becomes hero it differs in many ways. He isn’t the all knowing boy genius that is meeting his destiny. He is a character in over his head trying to stay afloat. I hope that continues in the next book. It would be a shame to turn him into a trope type hero.
Overall the story was interesting. The narrator was solid and I am going to happily listen to the next installment while I put up Christmas lights. Well done

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Mostly backstory but very realistic

One of the more enjoyable part of this novel is the care that was taken in making the whole military indoctrination and training parts, from boot camp, to AIT, to noob half lieutenant (aka butter bar lieutenant) lack of command responsibilities, &c. The MC is also a realistic representation of a young man, forced into command of a frigate space craft on entry into war, who is overwhelmed with fear, uncertainty and doubt and the trials that end up making him a credible commander.

Also, another item I found interesting was the description of warp speed (aka slip space, slipstream space, &c.) Most SciFi explain it in terms of some, almost magical, spaceship device. Here, it was explained as entering into 7th dimensional space being the means in which they are capable to traverse the galaxy at superluminal speed. As one can imagine a wormhole allowing one to travel vast distances by traveling through folded 3D space, being able to do so via 7D space makes sense (in a nonsensical way, of course).

Jake Elwood is a good writer and Johnathan McClain makes even the tedious parts of training very listenable.

I have high hopes for Book 2.

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