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Ballistic
- The Palladium Wars, Book 2
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
"I gulped down Ballistic in one long read, staying awake half the night, and now I want the next one!" (George R. R. Martin)
There is a personal price to pay for having aligned with the wrong side in a reckless war. For Aden Jansen it's the need to adopt a new identity while keeping his past hidden. Now he's integrated himself aboard the Zephyr, a merchant ship smuggling critical goods through dangerous space. But danger is imminent on planet Gretia, as well. Under occupation, torn between postwar reformers and loyalists, it's a polestar for civil unrest.
Meanwhile an occupation forces officer is pulled right back into the fray when the battle alarm is raised, an ambitious heiress is entangled in a subversive political conspiracy, and an Allied captain is about to meet the enemy head-on.
As Aden discovers, the insurgents on Gretia - and in space - are connected, organized, and ready to break into full-scale rebellion. History is threatening to repeat itself. It's time that Aden rediscovers who he is, whom he can trust, and what he must fight for now.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-07-20
Step down in narration
Marko delivers his usual high quality here and it leaves you salivating for more. But the change in narrator completely guts the audio book experience. It's simply not a Marko Kloos story without Luke Daniels behind the mic. Di Loreto does a decent job of it for sure, but it just doesn't deliver the same feeling. Changing narrators in the middle of a series is off-putting at the best of times, but even more so when a narrator has such a strong connection to a specific author as is the case with with Kloos's work.
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- STARGAZER
- 28-10-20
High Action SF Thriller
Marko Kloos just gets better. This is the second book in the series so far.
The story is about the struggle to realise social and economic stability five years after an interplanetary war. The four main characters all seem to be linked in some tenuous way and as the book closes all of them are drawn closer by a cataclysm not of their own making.
Every page is sensitively written with a deep tension that keeps you turning the pages. I can't wait for the next in the series forecast for a June 2021_release. Its worth noting that the audio accompaniment is worth paying a little bit extra for.
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- Sean O'Reilly
- 01-06-20
Good but
This is a good book, I really enjoyed the first book and had eagerly awaited this one however, I could it slow moving and just lacking the same grip as the first book.
Would I recommend it yes.
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- Laura Henman
- 22-10-21
Second time not so good
I never understand why an author daines it necessary to change narrator's!! Well I do if the prior narrator did a horrendous job, but then why not scrub him and bring in a new one then!! Now don't get me wrong, Angelo didn't do a bad job of narrating the book, but I went straight from book one to book two, so Luke's rendition of the characters is VERY fresh in my mind. Angelo kept roughly with the prior accents to about maybe 85% of the characters but there was the odd one he changed, but I still kept wanting to hear Luke's voice coming on shouting "fooled you" and then restart the narration from the beginning. Like i said Angelo didn't do a bad job at all, he's got plenty of range and....well I just don't like narrators being swopped and changed like this and it muddies the water for any other following narrators as everyone is going to be used to the way the prior narrator does things making it harder for that second narrator to step into. I've never been a fan of changing narrators ever and this has just compounded that feeling all the more because of it
Sorry Angelo not your fault at all and you did a great job while starting a race that's already ended, with this book. I have listened to others by Angelo that are excellent, but not by reading the second book, of one that was already established by Book One
I'm leaving now as I'm already running on repeat ;) plus it's time to buy and then read and listen to Citadel rubs hands in anticipation yayyy!!!
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