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Valley of the Dead

By: Christopher Hopper, J.N. Chaney
Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant
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There's no going back to Earth. The only way forward is through hell.

After the explosive events surrounding MPF6's destruction on Karkin Four, Wic and his team of daredevil operators join forces with the rebel force known as the Blood Guard. While the Phantoms desire to help relocate human refugees to safer worlds, they're forced to confront a more pressing objective: cut off the head of the beast and keep the Androchidan Empire from enslaving another world.

Wic is immediately flung into the heat of battle, driven by retaliation, a need for justice, and the need to send a message to all other deviant species who'd wish to take advantage of the innocent: don't even think about it.

However, when a convert mission goes sideways, and key Blood Guard operatives turn up missing, Phantom Team must decide just how far they're willing to go to stop an alien species from wreaking havoc in the galaxy.

Tensions mount as the empire's high command closes in for the kill. Lies spread, secrets abound, and betrayal runs like blood in the streets. Will Sir Chuck provide critical intel in time to save the team? Can Wic pull one more hat trick against a world-conquering foe?

Find out in Valley of the Dead, the fifth nail-biting, white-knuckle episode of the acclaimed Ruins of the Earth series by Christopher Hopper and J.N. Chaney.

©2021 Variant Publications, LLC / Hopper Creative Group, LLC (P)2024 Podium Audio

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new and extremely lacking narrator bring back r.c. brey

Disliked the new narrator immensely. voices were horrible especially for the talking gun chuck who was supposed to sound like John Cleese.not even close. took so much longer to get through this episode because it just wasn't as exciting, or entertaining. very very disappointing. probably will end buying any more from this once really good saga. unless they find a better narrator.

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Great addition to story arc, Bad narrator.

The story itself sets off right where the last left, and continued on. It continues the narrative and compliments the other three.

Of it wasn't for having spent the time listening to the first ones, I wouldn't have continued due to the narrator. the voices were not good at all, and very hard to distinguish from one another. The entire performance was monotoned and lacked any real emotion for what's supposed to be a riveting Space Military Opera.

obviously, I'll continue with theast book in the series, but I will be doing my best to stay away from this narrator.

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new narrator takes some getting used to

it's jarring to go from rc bray to the new guy, but it's understandable how the best narrators can have booked schedules. it took about two chapters for the new narrator to get into the groove, but afterwards it was a decent listen

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Adjusted to new narrator and was happy I did

Yet another enjoyable installment in the fight to rescue humanity! I initially missed RC Bray, but after about 1/4 of the book adjusting my ears, I found the new narrator did an excellent job. Full marks, keep em coming!

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Great story and action sequenes

I loved all the books in the series. This adds to the story and offers the hope for more adventures!

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changing narrators

wish you would have kept rc bray, it's hard to follow characters when the voice changes

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R.C. Bray Please come back!

The story as always is amazing. But after listening to R.C. Bray’s narration, no offense new narrator but he’s hard to beat. The narration while WIC is speaking, with RC didn’t seem like someone was reading words. It sounded like a true conversation. With new narrator I lost that effect. Hopefully it will grow on me in next book.

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New voices same spirit

Changing a narrator is difficult, especially with the previous having given such life to the characters. Despite this change the spirit of the characters and adventure of the story was delivered.

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Skeptical about the new narrator

At first, I was a bit skeptical to go about the new narrator. He did a very good job. Most of the characters voices were pretty close to the previous books. I believe the only one I had trouble with was Aaron and Hollywood. Pretty much everyone else sounded as close to the previous versions as, he could make it sound. Overall, good story good narration so I was happy.

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Great story. Can’t wait for the next one!

Great story. Can’t wait for the next one. Characters, plot and potential storylines going forward look promising. Keep it up.

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