The Oncoming Storm

Angel in the Whirlwind, Book 1

By: Christopher G. Nuttall

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

In the year 2420, war looms between the galaxy's two most powerful empires: the tyrannical Theocracy and the protectionist Commonwealth. Caught in the middle sits the occupied outpost system Cadiz, where young officer and aristocrat Katherine "Kat" Falcone finds herself prematurely promoted at the behest of her powerful father. Against her own wishes, Kat is sent to command the Commonwealth navy's newest warship, Lightning.

Determined to prove she has value beyond her family name, Kat struggles to earn her crew's respect and find her footing as the youngest captain in naval history. She soon discovers the situation on Cadiz is even worse than anyone in power anticipated. War isn't just a possibility - it is imminent. Yet the admiral in position to bolster defenses refuses to prepare for a fight. Can Kat find a way to investigate the enemy, alert the Commonwealth, and whip an entire fleet into fighting shape before the Theocracy's war machine destroys everything she holds dear?

©2015 Christopher G. Nuttall. (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Fun story and Great Series Start

First: Lauren Ezzo did a fantastic job. Her delivery strong and I felt she added to the overall experience. She has a tendency to pronounce everything exactly which I got used to very quickly.

Nuttall delivers with his novels, which is what originally drew me into his stories with Ark Royal. We've got a far future corporate aristocracy vs. a "theocracy" or religious oligarchy at a high state of tension and ideological conflict.

I liked the main character. She's intelligent, brave, dutiful, and humble. Nuttall didn't fall into the same trap as some other novels where he made here a tactical or strategic genius as well. She's resourceful and interesting to follow.

This is solid and entertaining military sci fi and I think it's worth a read. :)

Another good book from Christopher Nuttall great.

The presentation was great and the book flowed smoothly. Hopefully he does not deviate from the core story in future books of this series, and he does not get tired of writing this story line, leaving us hanging like he did with The Empires Corps series.

Worst narration ever

Lauren Ezzo has to be the worst narrator ever. In addition to her lackluster halting monotone voice, she constantly mispronounces words. Two of the most cringe-worthy for me were "corpsman", which she pronounced cores-man and "Cadiz", which she insisted on pronouncing as Kuh-DIHZ. This story would have been ever so much more enjoyable with someone like Barbara Rosenblat or Stefan Rudnicki. As it was, I had to stop listening and switch to the Kindle version. The narration was just that bad.

The story was engaging and I enjoyed it, despite it being reminiscent of Honor Harrington and Kris Longknife. I enjoy a female protagonist who knows how to take charge and win through despite the odds.

I will not buy any of the other audio books in this series because of the unbearable narration. I will stick to the Kindle versions.

Horrible narration!

It’s hard to enjoy this book with the horrendous narration. I don’t want to seem sexist, but the female narrator for this one can’t successfully perform other voices in the story. It’s more than annoying. She doesn’t even seem to try in most cases. When she does try it’s so very stilted it wrecks the storyline as she is adding in personality that isn’t there or that changes the character for what it was intended to be.

Up to Nuttall usual writing

Would you consider the audio edition of The Oncoming Storm to be better than the print version?

The story is fine, but the delivery is poor because the narrator is unable to do a believable male voice for any character

The in a new universe for the author

While firmly within mainstream military science fiction tropes, this first book in a four book series provides an engrossing story and engrossing narration by Lauren Ezzo. Aristocratic Kat Falcone rebels against her family and chooses a career in the navy of her native Tyre Commonwealth Navy. Send by her father to discover what is happening at a failed assimilation project she becomes a central figure as the ominous Theocracy,

I didn't want to stop listening

The universe that Mr. Nuttall created is very rich and engaging. I had a hard time pausing for food breaks and sleep. While the setting is completely fictional, the events that happen are familiar and grab one's attention. The narrator had a rather soothing and relaxing voice to listen to as well. It's definitely an interesting story. Had I been reading it instead of listening, I'd probably have read well into the night until I fell asleep. Listening to Kat, the main Protagonist meets obstacle after obstacle and grow as she learned was a definite pleasure.

I'm looking forward to the other books to see where it goes.

Terrific !

It is my hope that there are more books coming and that this will become a series

Good story

Good story but the voice acting of secondary characters is poor. Great start to what should be an interesting series.

Enjoyable

Even though I liked the storyline in this book I found the narrator not somewhat lacking. At the same time however I still recommend this book for the story content.