Fleet of Knives: An Embers of War Novel

The Embers of War Series, Book 2

By: Gareth L. Powell

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Soneela Nankani, Natasha Soudek, Joe Hempel

From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series.

The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge aboard an abandoned, slower-than-light generation ship launched 10,000 years before by an alien race. However, the enormous ship contains deadly secrets of its own.

Recovered war criminal Ona Sudak faces a firing squad for her actions in the Archipelago War. But, at the last moment, she is smuggled out of her high-security prison. The Marble Armada has called for her to accompany its ships as observer and liaison as it spreads itself across the human Generality, enforcing the peace at all costs. The alien ships will not tolerate resistance, and all dissenters are met with overwhelming and implacable force. Then her vessel intercepts messages from the House of Reclamation and decides the Trouble Dog has a capacity for violence which cannot be allowed to endure.

As the Trouble Dog and her crew fight to save the crew of the Lucy's Ghost, the ship finds herself caught between chaotic alien monsters on one side and, on the other, destruction at the hands of the Marble Armada.

©2019 Gareth L. Powell (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

l love this book, this series!

A great story, and wonderful voice acting. I am looking for book 3! Thank You!

Good characters

Good story. It repeats points over and over. Great characters. The many voices and differences in characters makes it really a easy listening.

Second installment - already got boring

Very unfortunately, the seemingly clear plot line of the first volume is getting ever more blurry the longer the second volume continues. Because of that, in the end, my sympathy with and investment in the characters was approaching zero - I will not read the third part, sorry. I think the author lost the story and just wrote on for the submission/money’s sake...

The narration / voice acting is actually better with this volume - someone may have told the reader of The Poet about her misplaced emphases, and that annoyance went away, too...

The story & narration

This was an amazing book all the voice actors were amazing I have had to listen to it 4 times because it’s so enthralling !!

dog brain pc

loved seeing modern author explore the idea of something cool like human dog brain hybrid computer systems and I want to go to that six legged guys homeworld and pick up a pack of them !