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  • Vanguard

  • Codename: Freedom, Book 4
  • By: Apollos Thorne
  • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
  • Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (258 ratings)

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Vanguard

By: Apollos Thorne
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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Publisher's summary

After surviving the trials of Freedom, Lucius enters the next stage of the military's super soldier creation scheme.

Medieval weaponry and gritty fantasy combat are a thing of the past. He must bring what he's learned to the modern battlefield.

Fighting futuristic tech isn't his only challenge. He'll go head-to-head against Genesis participants—enlisted military personnel who unlocked their psionics a year before Freedom began.

Will his emerging psionic abilities and hard-earned experience be enough?

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My favorite author!!

The hardest thing for me was the wait between books because I love this series (and his others as well). The story picks back up seamlessly from the previous book. The narrator continues to do a fantastic job.

Highly recommend!

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Amazing

I love the series and can't wait for the next book. Keeps me wanting more!

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great as ever!

vanguard continues in the same Vein of excellence established in the other vixens freedom books and the underworld series!

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Highly Recommended

This series keeps getting better. The conceit of using a virtual RPG to prepare for an actual existential threat increases my emotional involvement in the story and provides an excellent canvas with which to examine and develop the protagonist's character.

Most of the progression fantasy I read is essentially popcorn fiction, fun for what it is, but with little lasting impact. This is becoming more than that, which is elevating the series to at or near the top of this subgenre for me.

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I love this book!

This book was incredible.

The story telling and narration were just amazing. I was in tears multiple times. And as a manly man, I'm willing to own those tears. It was such good story telling!

The progression was absolutely awesome! I love the character drive of the main character.

I also like that the main character strives for perfection and though he doesn't always achieve it, never falters from his unflinching determination.

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Amazing

Once again I’m stuck waiting for the next book, literally could not put the book down. Really just did it all in one shot no sleep at all ha ha ha

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It's not bad but definitely fell short

I actually like the series and hope it gets better, so don't think im just hating on the book. Does it seem to anyone else that Lucius is becoming more whiney and less tactically sound in the head?
I mean he trains like crap then wonders why he can't fight as well. I'm not going to get into the back and forth with the girl

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3 year wait...

I love this series. I really hope it doesn’t take another 3 years to get 12 hours of book with 4 hours of good combat. I’m cool with the forbidden love story. I’m cool with the ladies loving the MC. I’m cool with basically all of it, except if it’s going to take another 3 years, either ramp up the action, or give us twice the content. Macleod is awesome (he’s also real good in the Cowboy Necromancer series by Harmon Cooper, highly recommend). Thanks for another addition Apollos!

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Very enjoyable

I always enjoy underdog stories, mix that with some forbidden love, unbeatable enemy and the fate of the world and you get this book. Great story, cant wait for next book.

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Continuing from last

Oh, also I don’t know if you ever read these comments but when is the next underworld book coming out. I’ve been waiting a longggg time for it and I need to listen to the next even if it’s the conclusion.

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