Sea of Red

By: James Bultema

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Major Awards:
Award Winner - Independent Press Awards
Award Winner - Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Award Winner - Military Writers Society of America
Award Finalist - American Fiction Awards
Award Finalist - BestThrillers.com
Distinguished Favorite - New York City Big Book Award

From multi-award-winning author James Bultema comes Sea of Red, an action-packed Military Thriller involving a war between China and the U.S. in their fight over Taiwan.

With Chinese hypersonic cruise missiles thundering toward the aircraft carrier USS Reagan, the captain has only minutes to decide how to save his crew of 5,000 before they end up at the bottom of the South China Sea.

As the battle rages, under the sea, U.S. fast attack submarines silently maneuver against the PLA Navy while jet fighters battle for air superiority. On the ground, Marines fight for control of Chinese-held Woody Island. A Taiwanese tank squadron confronts a superior attacking force on Kinmen Island in a courageous attempt to halt Chinese forces.

In the White House, the president strategizes with his National Security Council on overcoming China's advantage in ballistic missiles and ships. His counterpart, the president of China, develops a daring plan to destroy America's fleet of aircraft carriers.

Sea of Red is a must-read, powerful Techno-Thriller with warriors you won't soon forget.
Book 1 of 4 in the Sea of Red Series.

Great story, Ai narration is painful

Great story, Ai narration is absolutely painful. But I also think the story is worth the pain.

The reader has a way of making the story irritating.

I just had to stop listening half way through. The reader was so bad that when the story spoke about 9/11. The reader stated it as “9 to 11,” like it was a shift at work versus a tragic date in American history.

Solid book!

Obviously, not a huge fan of the virtual voice, but story was very entertaining. Will be looking up this author’s other work.

Horrible AI narration

Remind me never to download a book that used AI narration. Every character, man, woman, different accent, nationality, sound exactly the same. That’s bad enough, but the pronunciation of words and the inflection points in sentences is horrid. Don’t even get me started on how it handled acronyms. Every time the book referred to the “conn” of a submarine, it called the damn thing a “Connecticut”. When the troops were “dug in”, the AI said the “Dugan Marines”. Took me a minute to get that one. I was thinking “what are Dugan Marines”, until that lightbulb in my head went off, for the 400th time, and I haven’t even finished the book yet. If this AI were a real human narrator I urge their termination, or at least find them and strangle them to death.

Overall the story is really good

The reading of it is horrible. There are soooooooo many errors. Having a computer read a book that uses a lot of military acronyms and abbreviations is a bad idea. There are Hundreds and hundreds of mispronunciations.

I stick with it. Cause the story itself is really good though.