Ascendant: The Genesis Fleet, Book 2

De: Jack Campbell

Narrado por: Christian Rummel

A young fleet officer and a marine stand together to defend their colony in the continuation of the powerful and action-packed Genesis Fleet saga from New York Times best-selling author Jack Campbell.

In the three years since former fleet officer Rob Geary and former marine Mele Darcy led improvised forces to repel attacks on the newly settled world of Glenlyon, tensions have only gotten worse.

When one of Glenlyon's warships is blown apart trying to break the blockade that has isolated the world from the rest of human-colonized space, only the destroyer Saber remains to defend it from another attack. Geary's decision to take Saber to the nearby star Kosatka to safeguard a diplomatic mission is a risky interpretation of his orders, to say the least.

Kosatka has been fighting a growing threat from so-called rebels - who are actually soldiers from aggressive colonies. When a "peacekeeping force" carrying thousands of enemy soldiers arrives in Kosatka's star system, the people of that world, including Lochan Nakamura and former "Red" Carmen Ochoa, face an apparently hopeless battle to retain their freedom. It's said that the best defense is a good offense. But even if a bold and risky move succeeds, Geary and Darcy may not survive it....

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Genesis Fleet, Book 2

Jack Campbell and Christian Rummel, the team that did the Lost Fleet and Beyond the Frontier are back with another gripping series. What happens when humans colonize the stars and bring some of their darker nature with them? Ambition, piracy and preditatation have not gone out of style and it takes men and women of courage to stand against it.

Really enjoying the new series

I love the story, plus Christian Rummel is one of my top five performers. There are few performers who make you forget that it isn’t a full-cast recording.

This book was a bit challenging to follow at times as it wove the stories of multiple simultaneous events that the participants didn’t realize were interacting. It was very well done, as we get to see it weave toward building the universe of Dauntless.

powerful story

Great story . Had me on the edge of my chair and did not want to stop until the end. I am going for book 3 if it's out.

Great Prequel

I have loved all of the Jack Campbell books that I have listened to. This one is no exception. Can't wait for the next installment.

Too short!

I wait a year and finish it in a day! Thank you once again for taking us into the distant future.

Another Terrific Space combat novel from Jack Campbell

Jack Campbell continues to provide great science fiction with his second book in the Genesis Fleet series.

great book and a great listen.

this is a great series beginning to the Genesis of black jack Geary. I look forward to the next installment

Great book with 2 somewhat-minor flaws

Like all the other Lost Fleet-related books I really enjoyed Ascendant. It does however continue the same two flaws as the first book in the sub-series.

1: Either the narrator is reading just a little too fast or the audio was sped up in post-production. This isn't an issue I've had with any of the other books by this narrator outside of the Genesis Fleet series. Slowing the audio down to 0.9 of normal greatly improved things. (But did confuse me briefly when I started another book afterwards and wondered why the reader of that book was speaking so slowly, before remembering the settings change.) I'm hoping that this issue will be corrected in future books, but if not there's always the adjust playback speed option.

2: Like almost all prequel books the author couldn't resist the urge to connect _everything_ to the future books. It's fine that it's covering the foundation of the Alliance, that's what we signed up for. But it seems like every important named character in the other Lost Fleet books has a same-named ancestor who played a key role in that struggle. Unfortunately there's no real way out of the issue at this point now that the characters have been established. I can mostly push my annoyance to the back of my brain, but every so often it just rears up and I find myself thinking "If someone named 'Washington' became a famous US general today there's no way that people wouldn't be constantly asking them 'are you related to _that_ George Washington'?"

Excellent

great book and still one of the best authors out there. Campbell gets you involved and feeling the story

Need more of this series.

Great series and universe. He needs to be cranking these out more. Can't wait for the next one