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K. Gorman
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Join this ragtag crew in their quest for justice in a rollicking science fiction adventure across the galaxy.
Some people need a little extra help out of an airlock. At gunpoint.
Reuben Shirano is the worst kind of criminal: smart, ruthless, and with no lines he won't cross. He runs a tight, sophisticated operation backed by the powerful Tsai-Shirano conglomerate, proving time and time again to be untouchable by the system’s governing bodies.
In other words, he’s precisely the type of person Captain Soo-jin Dokgo tries to avoid.
But sometimes, you only get one little chance to bring an asshole to justice. She and the crew of Huli Jing are determined to bring him down and kick him where it hurts.
And if they get some money for their trouble? All the better.
Tall Order is the first book in a new series by bestseller K Gorman, author of The Eurynome Code. It contains one snarky, foul-mouthed captain, her butt-kicking crew, plenty of scifi action, and some questionable decisions.
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Fresh out of the Academy, Ensign Cole Jackson’s first posting to Freedom couldn’t have come at a worse time. All over the Alliance, planets and colonies are suddenly under attack by the vicious Coven Empire. Freedom and her sister ship, Hood, are ambushed by alien warships, leaving Hood drifting dead in the void. Cole is ordered to salvage parts from the powerless Hood, but when he arrives on the unpowered hulk, Freedom is called away, marooning him and a group of malcontent techs in deep space.
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If you like Honor Harrington series read this
- By Dadbeh on 03-27-25
By: Michael Simon
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Blossoming Path: A Xianxia LitRPG
- Blossoming Path, Book 1
- By: Carlos Calma
- Narrated by: Matthew Bridges
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
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It is known as the Day of Awakening. Across the continent, the Heavenly Interface appears, presenting each being with a system to track their skills and quests in the name of achieving their goals. Bandits rise to power, forgotten masters come out of seclusion, and spirit beasts arise from their slumber, drawn to the promise of a new era. Little do any of them know, it is Kai, a young herbalist from a small village, who was the cause of the Heavenly Interface's introduction.
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it's good and i want the 2nd book, but....
- By Donovan Mullen on 03-28-25
By: Carlos Calma
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The Night Realm
- Spell Weaver, Book 1
- By: Annette Marie
- Narrated by: Melissa Moran, Tim Paige
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Clio isn't a thief. She isn't a spy, a soldier, or a diplomat. Aside from her rare ability to mimic spells, her only notable talent is gardening. But with a war threatening her homeland, and her half-brother—the nymph prince—pleading for her help, she agrees to attempt the impossible: stealing deadly magic from the best spell weavers in the three realms. Their stronghold is located deep in the Underworld, which is exactly the sort of place an Overworld nymph like her should never go. Getting in won't be that hard. Getting out alive is the impossible part.
By: Annette Marie
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Deus Ex Machina
- Broker, Book 1
- By: Derelict Presence
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
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The opening of Pandora's Box changed the world, giving rise to an age of superhumans and monsters. Yet mankind was not safe from its own hubris, and in the end, it destroyed itself. Sonya Chernovna returns to the past with a mysterious new ability that lets her absorb powers, combine them, and even bestow them onto others. It's a power with near limitless potential.
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Deathwind
- War of the Harbingers
- By: Brad Pawlowski
- Narrated by: Jake Bordeaux, Bridget Bordeaux
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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Freed from his captors by the Meraki Dominya, Nathan learns his sister was also taken and strikes a deal to rescue her. Joining their ranks, he meets Arista, a lethal alien commando trained to kill first and not ask questions later. Working together, he discovers that beneath her tough exterior, there is also a kindred spirit. But as the risks around them escalate, he must determine whether she is truly friend or foe.
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A great book introducing a fun new world
- By Trevor Sowers on 03-25-25
By: Brad Pawlowski
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Apocalypse Arena 1: Mortal Gauntlet
- A LitRPG Adventure
- By: J Pal
- Narrated by: Miles Meili
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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The stronger his opponent, the harder he hits. Saving an innocent from a drug-crazed superhuman should've left Nil broken. Instead, it wins him the Nexus' attention. Nil is done feeling small and watching his family scrape by. He now has the opportunity to make a difference. Apocalypse Arena holds the key; where the multiverse's champions battle and keep the Scourge at bay. Pain, death, and heartbreak await all who run the gauntlets, but Nil has what it takes to grapple his way to the top.
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Glad I took the chance!
- By Amazon Customer on 03-28-25
By: J Pal
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Way of the Immortals: The Complete 4-Book Series
- Isekai Cultivation Fantasy
- By: Harmon Cooper
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 31 hrs and 5 mins
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When Nick Barnette is pulled through a mysterious portal into the Kingdom of Lhasa, his life becomes a fight for survival. Separated from his friends and hunted by powerful forces, Nick discovers he’s been gifted a strange ability—the power to slow time. But mastering it is no simple task, and to stand a chance of reuniting with his friends and returning home, he must walk the ancient Way of the Immortals.
By: Harmon Cooper
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The Starship in the Stone
- By: M.R. Forbes
- Narrated by: Dave Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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When Thomas heard the cries for help, he didn’t hesitate to do the right thing. It was his chance for redemption. Until everything went wrong. The cave should have been deserted. The perfect place to hide. Instead, it’s crawling with soldiers and engineers working to unearth the impossible: Excalibur.
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Interesting take on King Arthur
- By Survivor T on 03-01-25
By: M.R. Forbes
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Privateer's Commission
- By: Randi Darren
- Narrated by: Rebecca Woods, Daniel Wisniewski
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Ralph could be described as a rogue on a good day. A bad day involved a lot of cursing, calling him a pirate, or sometimes even having a shoot-out. It wasn't really his fault of course, or so he would have you believe. It was the fault of those who wanted to get in his way of making as much money as possible as a smuggler. His family had been gifted with a letter of marque for the Terran Confed, one that is inherited and has been passed down to him. Essentially, it gives him a lot of loopholes and ways through regulations to be a fantastic smuggler. Or as a legal pirate, a Privateer.
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A great listen.
- By Gitchel on 03-29-25
By: Randi Darren
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Tales from the Starship Atlantis: A Collection of Science Fiction Stories
- Tales from the Starship, Book 2
- By: Bobby Adair, Chloe Cotter, Steven Konkoly, and others
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel, GM Hakim, Kate Reading, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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The Starship Atlantis takes you on an unforgettable journey through the extraordinary. From alien civilizations and rogue AI to desperate missions on the brink of collapse, these stories will transport you across the stars into the heart of the unknown. This anthology features six never-before-published novellas and short stories, plus two exclusive bonus tales.
By: Bobby Adair, and others
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A Bright Shore
- The Eden Chronicles, Book 1
- By: S.M. Anderson
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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The West's own governments are giving up, have already lost, or are leading the charge to something else. This doesn't sit well with those who believe in liberty. This is the story of a people who have lost the political fight, they've lost the culture wars, they haven't seen a level playing field in a generation, and they are about to be made serfs. None of that matters. They're leaving....
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Interesting Take on Dystopian (socialist) Future
- By VaDavid on 08-04-20
By: S.M. Anderson
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- Jas P
- 03-28-25
Soo-Jin is back in this gripping thriller!
Tall Order is the first in the Shadow Host series, following Captain Soo-Jin Dokgo. Tall Order takes place approximately 10yrs after the events from the Eurynome Code. The Alliance and Fallan Empire’s have come to a peace agreement after the events in this galaxy following on from the ‘Shadow War’. Soo-Jin is now the Captain of the Huli-Jing, with her friend and Co-Pilot, Zan. They are a former military specialist, who now just wants a bit of quiet life (supposedly!). Together the two of them work jobs in salvage, stripping old sites, and moving it around. Soo-Jin deals a lot in antiques, having studied archaeology, she can identify good deals. They also help out those in trouble, like rescuing people and taking them to the sanctuary that Soo-Jin herself grew up at.
At the start of Tall Order, the crew of the Hula-Jing find themselves caught up with a job that has gone sideways with a pirate-trader Lamar Jones that Soo-Jin knows. Meant to be a simple trade, it turns into something darker. When the crew find themselves in a bit of trouble, we are introduced to the Hula-Jing’s third crew member, Bob – a Shadow. The Shadows are trans-dimensional beings, they were trapped and used to attack others during the Shadow War, not only being used against their will, but then being killed, resulting in millions of their kind dying. Eventually Karin Makos freed them, and worked out that they were not the enemy.
Bob lives on the Hula-Jing, part time, the other part, he lives in his own dimension.
Once they deal with the pirate problem, Soo-Jin receives a call from an old friend, Commander Ji-Hun Baik. Baik was another veteran of the Shadow War, and not only saved Soo-Jin’s life, he was stabbed in the throat with her knife. She has had a crush on him from the first moment she saw him, as he is not just devastatingly good looking, but he has the charisma, charm and personality to back up the good looks.
Baik needs help though. He has discovered a human-trafficking ring operating out of the station he works from (Marduk Station). Reuben Shirano is very rich, rich enough to own his own space station that he has modified to look like his home planet (including smells and winds). But Shirano traffics in humans, his last shipment went wrong, and he left a container of people in space, to die slowly from thirst, hunger or eventually the elements, after he turned off everything. Now he has another 38 people in a container, and the race is on to save them.
However, there is no way into his organisation, except one. Soo-Jin Dokgo.
Her past, her current work, and her education all make her the perfect person to infiltrate his organisation, and get the information they need. There are two major problems, one of course is that she could be discovered and either killed or sold off as a slave. The other, far worse for Soo-Jin, is that they will discover that her Father, the head of a Korean purist cult that believes in keeping the bloodline pure, and is part of a generational legacy that has set up a planetary ‘cult’ to keep their ‘family line’ pure, wants her back as breeding stock to continue the family line. He has a bounty on her head.
Soo-Jin of course, takes the job – knowing that those people are either slaves or dead if she doesn’t help them.
And thus begins a very dangerous job. Baik has a select team of specialists to help her, with high tech equipment to infiltrate Shirano’s organisation. Zan initially joins Soo-Jin given their military background.
What follows is an intense, sometimes brutal, very realistic and gritty story as Soo-Jin falls down the rabbit hole. I don’t want to give away any spoilers as the remainder of the story is brilliant.
I will add a warning though. There are some triggers in this book, strong sexual violence, torture, abduction, strong language. I will add that it is done in the context of the book, Soo-Jin swears a lot, but it’s her character. They are going after a slaver sex-ring, there is going to be aspects of sexual violence etc. Gorman has done it tastefully and thoughtfully, the story has its moments in which it is brutal, graphic and realistic, but it is also an incredibly captivating and powerful story, one that once you pick up, you find you can’t put down either.
Tall Order is a clever and engaging character driven start to the Shadow Host series that is a thrill-ride from the opening sequence to the very end.
If you liked Eurynome Code, then you will love Tall Order, it’s an absolute must read!
Erin Bateman is a fantastic Narrator with a really great voice to listen to. She has a great range of both male and female voices, with a clear and concise voice, and distinct voices for each character. Bateman also provides the emotional state of each of the characters as she tells the story, so that you know how the characters are feeling as the story unfolds, whether that be happy or sad, angry, elated, or in Soo-Jin’s case, most likely about to do someone harm.
Bateman is really wonderful, and brings this story to life. It is absolutely worth the listen, not just for the exceptional story this is, but for the outstanding Narration that Bateman provides!
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