Baldwin’s Legacy Boxed Set

Baldwin's Legacy Series, Books 1-6

By: Nathan Hystad

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 53 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

The complete Baldwin's Legacy series.

Confrontation: Thomas Baldwin has been appointed captain of the state-of-the-art cruise ship Constantine, named after his heroic grandfather. When their first diplomatic mission turns deadly, all signs point to the return of a former adversary, one the Concord claims to have defeated five decades earlier.

Unification: The Concord is in shambles after the return of the Statu, but under the guidance of the Zilph'i, trust is slowly being rebuilt.

Culmination: Captain Thomas Baldwin and the crew of Constantine have saved the Concord from the Assembly and are tasked with bringing them to prison.

Hierarchy: Captain Thomas Baldwin has made a name for himself in a short period of time. The Statu have finally been defeated, and the Concord has Tom and his crew to thank for the victory.

Lineage: Thomas Baldwin transfers to Ridele, the capital of Nolix, and the center of the Concord political arena. He must navigate the new role, while his former crew sets off on an important mission without him.

Legacy: Admiral Thomas Baldwin has more to live for after the recent news. All eyes are on him as the biggest war in Concord Space history begins in earnest.

©2019, 2020 Nathan Hystad (P)2021 Tantor

Ok

Some parts seemed to repeat other sci-fi shows, but was pretty much a good thing

Great Storytelling

Keep me posted on other stories . Yes this one was the best,, I have read my n
Book but this one was awesome

Good in general, but just good, nothing great.

Starts as a Space Sci-Fi, a bit dull at the beginning, then changes to the Republic fighting the drugged-out Siths by the end. It's ok. Probably would've not finished it if it weren't 6 books in 1. Very little character development and a lot of things are glossed over.

Amazing series!

I love it when I stumble on these collections of a whole series. It’s like when I show drops all episodes at once instead of weekly. This series was great and had me hooked from the start. The characters were well written, the story had some twists and turns, and the narration was pretty good as well. I didn’t know this author when I started, but am definitely willing to read some of their other work after this!

A VERY Enjoyable Series

So, at the outset just to nip in the bud any hasty remarks by any editor of these reviews or easily-offended Karens given to trying to post their hysterical responses to reviews (and we all know who you are)—everything that follows A. goes directly to the purpose of evaluating this series, B. is not gratuitous, and C. provides the needed context of the greater world of recorded books and those who read them. Besides, I’m a paying customer, have been so for years, buy significantly more product than my monthly credit, and have well over four decades listening to recorded books, so what I have to say really is important for those who produce such books to hear.

There are three important things to note about anyone telling a story:

1. There are some authors whose ability with the English language is excellent but whose ability in creating a really satisfying story completely sucks.

2. There are a number of authors whose ability with the English language is excellent and whose storytelling ability is commensurate with that.

3. There are some authors whose storytelling ability is excellent, who can create entirely believable worlds and easily suspend the eff out of my disbelief, who can create characters with distinct personalities, and who can create characters the reader genuinely cares about, whether deeply loving or thoroughly detesting them, but whose abilities with certain basics of the English language leave room for improvement. There are two remedies for this; they are overlapping and both indispensable: A. Continued experience with the English language and B. A good editor.

The author of this series belongs to the third category and the publishing company has let him down by failing to provide a good editor.

The level of clunkiness was not extreme, diminished over the course of the series, and mostly consisted of things like this: “…he took a deep inhale…he released his exhale…” or “…he hovered a finger over…” or the use of “ground” to refer to the floor of a building or vehicle, and other things of this nature. The actual sentence structure was generally very good and seldom any problems with disparity between subject and verb with respect to number other than the typical use of “they” to refer to a single individual and probably done out of habit arising from absurd fear of using “he” or “she” and related pronouns, too often seen nowadays among either the pronoun paranoid or the pronoun pathological who have been working like busy little beavers to instill in the former the aversion to the realities of languages with pronouns that refer to both gender and number. There are other ways around most of them and a good editor could have suggested them. As for the rest, take a stand. If a character is female, use “she” and “her” and if male, have the balls or at least respect for the English language to use “he,” “his,” and “him” and strike a blow against the abuse of literature by these political linguistic terrorists.

That said, I will gladly spend more money on other books by this author because his storytelling ability is strong and will only continue to grow at the same time the number of verbal clunkers will decrease.

The narrator is always important and either enhances (such as Frank Muller, Oliver Wyman, or Barbara Rosenblat, to mention a few of the greats) or ruins a story (such Stephen King or Balki. I refer to an actor from Beverly Hills Cop by a character name from his TV series. His narration (sometimes extremely good—basic qualities of voice and characterization are always good, other times extremely bad—the narration equivalent of purple prose; for example, the phrase “he heard the claws scraping across the floor” adequately conveys what’s going on; no one needs to hear the slow, exaggerated pronunciation of the word “scraaaaaping”) is so inconsistent that I will never risk another credit on it—and I buy a LARGE number of extra credits every month). This narrator does a very good job, with no over-acting, and will only get better; and he has many years to go before he reaches the age of George Guidall.

I recommended the audio recording of this series and look forward to others by this author and narrator. I will purchase the next in the series as soon as I hit submit (but, please, anybody at Audible that can get the word to Balki to knock it the hell off so I can purchase books he narrates and enjoy rather than endure them, I’d appreciate it.

nice story

having the whole set was the best choice. i get to hear the whole story rather than pieces. very well written and produced. the story has so many unexpected twists and turns which kept me excited to know what happened next... all in all a very good story line.

Great Read

Fun journey with twists and turns. Very good pace, very good character development, and great story line. Great read!

The Boxed Set was a great deal! Really Enjoyed.

I took a chance on this and got the whole box set. It was a great value as I really enjoyed the whole series. Very few flaws in the story logic. Can't say that about most TV shows and movies.
Of course if it were not for some amazing luck and timing, most of the main characters would be dead. But I kinda think that is the point in many books. That luck is somewhat predictable sometimes, but not an issue for me.

The books have very good wrap ups and breaks between them and when you get to last one...really has a nice wrap up to the series. Not so sure how well they would stand on their own in any other order....I think it would for sure be best to start from the beginning.

I likes how the AI was handled with some nice thought provoking tie ins with the android body technology that was a seperate part of story and different technology. However that does remind me of one technology issue I had with the story. There seemed to be a secret(?) technology that allowed the communication between the brain and android body that even worked through wormholes when no other communication technology worked???? Why could they not utilize that technology more if they really had that? That was a flaw to the story that I do not think was ever explained unless I missed it. One other thing that I noticed is that sometimes the fuel for jumping was hard to get and other times it seemed plentifull. Not really explained. Guess you can assume there were supply chain issues??

Really liked the character of the Dr that had to wear gloves. Liked many of the characters actually. The reader did a good job with character voices with only some of the time I was not sure who was talking right away. Most of the time I could tell.

Seemed much shorter

Enjoyed every bit of the boxed set, well done all around. Good plot with many twists along the way. Great narration also.

Great story

I enjoyed the story and it was also nice having the complete series in one.