To Valor's Bid

Monster Girls in Space, Book 1

De: M. Tress

Narrado por: Jack Smith, Anne Marie Lebeaur

Desmond McLaughlin was just getting through his life and trying to survive. A 9-5 job and a hobby that cost more than it earned left him just enough money to afford a crappy apartment and time to dream of something better. He was expecting to spend most of his life like this.

He hadn’t expected to be greeted by a CIA agent waiting inside his house one evening. He wasn’t expecting that CIA agent to tell him that he was being drafted for a special mission. And he really wasn’t expecting to basically get kidnapped.

But most of all, he wasn’t expecting to be told two important things. One, aliens were out there. And two, they wanted to take him as the first of the locals drafted from his planet to go to one of the few super-dreadnought class starships in the Hegemony and learn magic.

Join Desmond as he learns to manipulate mana — a source of power that exists beyond the reach of most people in the universe — meets vastly different alien species, risks life and limb, all while trying to pass classes. If he’s lucky, he will find someone he can trust out here amongst the weird. If he's very lucky, maybe someone he can love.

©2024 M.Tress (P)2024 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

good book

if you like Daniel Schinhofen, William D. Arand and Randi Darren
you will love M. Tress

i love book 1 i read book 2 and 3 it is good and need more

the Performance was good it repeated a word or but that were good would love to hear more from them with this series

M. Tress keep doing a good job

Really really good.

This book sets up the story of an excellent world and with excellent characters. Its voiced excellently and the ending was especially spectacular. I wish your next audio release is swift.

Good story/pace/narration

There are sections in the narration that seem extremely challenging. Also some pronunciation issues with specific words that I had to rewind and re listen to just ensure I heard something right. Some of it is nit pic-key, I still give high marks. I guess I am so used to some of the British pronunciations it sort of was odd. Also, I think there are some audio quality issues , where it’s like the baritone of the male actor’s voice sort of winds up running into issues. I am not sure if it’s the audio quality or just the voice depth and my headphones.

pretty friggin fantastic.

enjoyed this one all the way through. there were some hiccups and repeated lines, but the story is fun and the challenges presented are always solved in a creative manner. narration is great and narrators used effects for phone calls and the like which helped with immersion for the reader. very quality work. a credit well spent. I look forward to the sequel

Very well done, can't wait for the other ones!

There were a few minor things to overlook, like how they pronounced certain words, but overall it was very well done and I never got dragged out of the story by the narrations. The story itself is very good and I truly can't wait for more of the books to be done in audio as that is how I prefer to experience books when on the go.

Loved everything

I have read this before and was waiting for this to become an audible to relive the book. I will say this didn’t disappoint . I will say there was a couple audio issue I noticed some clipping and peaking at some points. But overall loved it and cannot wait for the next audible of book 2-4.

Excellent story and world building

I loved the relationship between the MC and his love interest. The narrators brought thr characters to life and it made for a great weekend listen. Can't wait to get the other books in the series!

Great start

The beginning of the book is slow and has lots of information, that is on the line of excessive. But once you get threw that the story really starts to get going. I highly recommend you give this book a listen/read It has a lot of potential, I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next book in the series. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. Thank you

I like it.

the story is interesting.
MC seems ok bit of a dunce but that is the standard .
the characters are well written.
want to know the next parts

Amazing Series Must Read

Love this series so much as the world building characters are rememberable and amusing! Only issue is the rest of the series is not out yet!