A Little Rebellion

Crimson Worlds

By: Jay Allan

Narrated by: Jeff Bower

A Little Rebellion

Crimson Worlds Book III

The Third Frontier War is over, and the Western Alliance is triumphant. All across human-occupied space, colony worlds celebrate the coming of peace.

But peace is an elusive dream, and more trouble is brewing. The war was expensive, and the economies of the Superpowers, always fragile, are on the verge of total collapse.

The Directorate, the shadowy intelligence organization that has become the true power behind the Alliance government, plans to strip the colonies bare to pay the costs of war. Already, they are tightening their control over the freewheeling colonial governments. And the Marine Corps faces total destruction at the hands of the worst traitor in its history.

But the colonists are a different breed than the passive mob on Earth, and they have no intention of meekly surrendering their hard-won freedoms. On worlds all across the frontier, plans are hatched and weapons hoarded. And in taverns and meeting halls the words of an ancient text are uttered in hushed tones. A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing.

©2013 Jay Allan Books (P)2013 Jay Allan Books

Once again the narrator butchers a good story

The story development was good altho it could have used a little more storyline development. The story progresses a little too rapidly. However.....once again the narrator really takes away from what would be a good book. His range of character voices is absolutely terrible. He makes male battle hardened troopers sound like timid gals (nothing against our hardened women in our armed forces) and vice versa. At times it is was very difficult to distinguish which character was actually talking. The narrator has a very poor range of voices and almost shouldn't even try. Anyway, it is a good story. You just have to bear the narrator.

Good story, awfull narrator.

I love the story but listening to this bad narration is realy anoying.
His voices are not in context to what is happening. His reading is weak and slow. Even in places where it should be strong and fast.
It bothers me the most in combat scenes. He reads officers giving soldiers orders in battle like they are asking politely for something in their country club brids game. It sounds pathetic and weak while the characters are anything but. Get a new reader and do it all over again.

Great Series So Far

So far this series is very good, the characters are developed satisfactorily, a little cliche but it works because the dialogue is great between characters. In terms of Sci-Fi there is ground based military, space combat, ship to ship combat, 'future talk', & funny talk about history. I def. would suggest this 3rd book & think its getting better as the series went on... 3rd better then 2nd then 1st etc...

The alien presence is interesting but I don't think its enough considering how everything in the books focuses on a disinformation campaign to further the artifact goals... there are also some unique battles & forms of battle, bringing the saying 'improvise, adapt, & overcome' come true to form. Only complaint is I think the book could have been a couple hours less... overall I'll keep reading Allan. The narration & story came together for a well put together book

Not as good as books 1+ 2

Not as good as books one and two but still good. A necessary book linking the series together.

I'll just read the next one.

The women's voices were absurdly falsetto, some of the most powerful characters sounded like effeminate teenagers, and using reverb to try and make up for variety just didn't work. I am really surprised Jeff Bower was invited to narrate the second, let alone the third.