The Techborn

Rift Warrior, Book 1

By: B.V. Larson

Narrated by: Mark Boyett

The colony on Haven-7 has gone rogue.

The colonists have split into two factions: the Techborn and the Dusters. The Techborn have always ruled the planet. They control the remnants of the crashed starship that brought humanity to this new world. The Dusters… they eat Techborn dust.

Now, the Techborn strength is waning. Their weapons are getting old, and radiation leaks from the aging reactors have created mutations. Some of these, like their brutish troops known as Tuskers, have proven useful—but others are abominations.

When the Dusters rebel, civil war breaks out. Special Forces operative Dane Tanner is transmitted to Haven-7 to stabilize the colony… by any means necessary.

The Techborn is the thrilling first book of the Rift Warrior series. With millions of copies sold, USA Today bestselling author B. V. Larson is the king of modern military science fiction.

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struggled with it

it's a bit derivative. feels a lot like the Undying Mercenary series just with different names in a different agenda. Tanner just as an as much of his dog as McGill.

New world to follow, given to us from BV Larson.

Enjoyed this book very much. The main character Dane Tanner was quite the tough guy and loved it.

Capture much?

Special Forces operative Dane Tanner. He is only special at getting captured by chapter 10 he's been beat up by aliens and captured twice.

Inconsistencies

Let me preface this with saying that I'm a big BV Larson fan. I've literally read every book and some I've read twice. This one has been really disappointing. I don't know if it's Covid, overwork, ghost writing or the use of some really bad AI, but there are 2 big issues with this book:
1) way to many inconsistencies. As in logical flows that don't make sense. Just now at the end of the book in the last few chapters there were 3 GLARING ones.
- Tina already came alone to his place, but suddenly it's too dangerous?
- The XCU entrance has two completely different descriptions in book 1 vs book 2
- Tanner has ONE week off, and they start dating then, but you make it sound like it's been months

This needs some better proofreading. I am sure you could find a few fans willing to help point these out. Get in touch with us!

2) the rambling, holy shit how often do you want to re-explain or re-describe a person? Felt like a school essay that wasn't long enough. Don't take your reader for complete imbeciles.

Other than that it was okay, I like the plot, the sci-fi western feel and even the characters.

Exciting

This story was Well written! I could not put the story down once I started to read it,

a weaker version of dust world

everything felt like a budget version of Dust World, another one of the authors books. maybe it's fine if you haven't already read that one.

another great new idea and epic story!

as a huge fan of the undying mercenaries series, I can say our favorite author has done another epic idea, with all the great attributes that we love about the undying mercenaries series. I can't wait for the next book on audible.

teenage fantasy

melodramatic and over acted. it's okay if you're into this kind of story, but I won't be back for the next story.

Good for background noise

I didn't hate it. I didn't love it. It's the type of book and story that's good for when you're doing projects or chores without needing to pay attention to every word. I just never felt invested in the groups.

really bad

sloppy bad writing. not worth the liaten. The story line has potential, if another author got their hand on it. John Scalzi could make it a masterpiece.