Full of pulpy Space Opera Goodness

While I like the 3-for-1 credit omnibus, I do not recommend listening to the 3 in immediate sequence. The pulpy nature of the story and the melodrama associated with each crisis coming after the other can become a bit tedious. I think a good pallet cleanser in between. Perhaps a Disc World or Dresden volume would work well.

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Totally engrossing saga

Wonderful writing and narration, the story is riveting, literally couldn’t put it down.
Special treat are the prologues and recaps between novels, he had me laughing through something I usually skip

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A fascinating story, but.......

A good concept torn asunder by the narrator. Sorry, but that guy needs to go back to flipping burgers. He tried hard but..... yeah, no. As for the story, it's good, but I'd rather read it though. Just a bit stilted at times but overall well done with an entirely possible concept.
Thank you, Chris Fox, for the tale but please get a different narrator!

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AMAZING

this book is amazing I live the characters and it hurt to lose them but it pulls you in this is a amazing author I think anyone should get this it is amazing the story is deep but not boring deep the characters are relatable and it has everything it needs I give it a solid 10

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Flawed, but fun

This is a fun, action-packed sci-fi series. The overall story is a great idea, very similar to Mass Effect. But, for those of you who understand the underlying science behind some of the concepts the author is using, this book is going to be infuriating. He displays a lack of basic understanding of how some of the concepts he's using work, and from a standpoint of someone who understands the theory it's painfully obvious at times. This doesn't really stop the book from being fun, but it doesn stop me from giving it another star. Another star is lost because, while the story is great, characters are pretty flat and one-dimensional. They're still somewhat believable, and it's not the worst characterization in the world, but the author has some work to do in this regard.

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Good sci-fi listen

I've gone through the void wraith trilogy twice and really enjoyed it both times. It is fast-paced and is quite the epic story.

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Highly reccomended

Great price, great trilogy! Worth a re-listen after I get done with The Ember Wars (by another author). Some of the characters and came to mind weeks after reading. It's a nice change up and different story line / reader than most of the SciFi that I've listened to and I am so glad that everyone gave honest reviews for me to make the choice to purchase.

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it's not bad not great either

it's a good story line and worlding building for me the TV like recap is really worth it

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Aliens are not very helpful

Chris Fox's Void Wraith Trilogy offers a galaxy with stereotypical aliens each with their own annoying peccadilloes and one big menace that everyone refuses to recognize or even acknowledge. While the plot is well crafted and the story unfolds in an engaging way, the overall simplicity is more in line with children's Saturday morning TV than a sophisticated, complex, and nuanced novel. Basically, a long forgotten alien menace that returns infrequently with the galactic rotation has come around again. There is an infiltration of all the local sentient species, including humans with the intention of both fomenting interspecies war and at the same time "harvesting" biological entities for unknown purposes. Only a few humans are able to figure this out and with the aid of a select group of aliens, must battle their own forces as well the overwhelming alien menace.

The sci-fi elements are many, but largely limited to aliens; FTL drives are extant along with high energy plasma weapons, but without explanation. Cyborg technology is available. There is also an alien lifeform that can "takeover" a person, but only "sorta-of." The aliens are overly anthropomorphized with a "feline" like species and a bunch of aloof eggheads. The feline species is so hyper-aggressive and obsessed with honor that it's hard to envision how they ever managed to get off-world in the first place, since anyone appears to be able to challenge for leadership by death-match. In addition, apparently anyone annoyed with an order can simply break the neck of the order giver and take over. The eggheads are presented as being technologically superior to everyone, but their disdain for the "lesser races" simply becomes tiresome as they clearly demonstrate total incompetence to even take care of themselves.

Other deficiencies concern too many plot conveniences that create inconsistencies, such as a quantum communications network that allows for instantaneous communications which only the good guys seems to use (and no one hacks it either), while the eggheads are clueless that one of their libraries (which are sacred, but at the same time placed in the middle of nowhere) was completely destroyed. While the alien greens stuff that can take over someone is available, in one case, murder is committed instead, creating suspicions. Loyalties shift quickly and individuals ready to kill to take command, readily acquiesce to subservient roles, while one species hands total war control over to another race. There is also the superweapon that has been hiding since the last go around, but it was never clear what they were waiting for or why they were kept secret at all. Finally, the alien uber-menace is never adequately described in terms of intent or motivation. Lastly, there is almost no attempt to describe anything about the various civilizations. This universe appears to be largely populated by military units with almost no connection to the worlds they claim allegiance.

The narration is reasonable, although alien voices are rendered without much discrimination among the various characters. Gender distinction is absent, especially for the aliens which can make speaker identification difficult. Finally, the uber-alien menace is portrayed in a whispered old man death bed rendition that contrasted negatively with the all powerful evil,

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good story and audio

Audio book was pretty good. I couldnt stop listening to it and the voices were distinct with a nice storyline. Would certainly recommend it

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