Amazing story, amazing delivery.

Loved it, Stephen Lang was on point. Hope to hear more from the savages prospective in future books from Jason Anspach and Nick cole

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another great one in the series

loved it, the story from the savage point of view was interesting. will be getting the next one

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Outstanding - My new favourite GE book

No words, ( ok maybe just a few) I'm just going to listen to the whole damn thing again. Just WOW !

Two incredible tales, Cole and Anspach smash it out of the park again. Stephen Lang is amazing, Ray Porter and he are by far the best GE Narrators.

Do I get to leave another review on second and third listen... ?

Gob smacked and in love!

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Best book in the galaxy edge serives

If you are after the tried and true formula of action action action, KTF send in the legion, then i can understand this book being a bit of a let down. but....
This is a diamond in the rough, a blend of traditional sci-fi - taking some alien concept and seeing how far an author can roll with it, and the galaxy's edge desperate military heroism. Which it blends magnificently.
The book largely exists inside the head of a savage marine, which comes with a heavy dose of introspection.
The real beauty of this book is that at the end your left thinking that, despite these people being cannibals, despite them being slavers, despite them having a class based hierarchie that encourages them to kill their friends to get head in life. Despite all that, maybe these people aren't that bad..

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A fever dream followed by the forging of The Legio

This chapter in The Savage Wars isn't your typical Galaxy's Edge book.

For starters you finally get to see things from the Savage perspective. Which is a manic, hamburger fuelled, video game, celebrity existential crisis.
Almost as if Dr Disrespect went to space and went insane over the course of 500 years.

It did take a bit of adjustment to get into the first half but worth it as it does open your eyes to the madness of the Savages.

Lang stands out once again and performed amazingly.

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Bit of a slog

First 35 chapters are just filler as the delve into a single savage with all his hang ups feel that this could of been done with half the amount for what I wanted was to read the forming of the legions which seem far to rushed

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Excellent

This is not the “filler” book some are saying it is. It’s just different.
What it brings to Galaxy’s edge is very relevant. It’s well written and shows the flexibility of the authors. I highly recommend it to all fans of the series.

Bad note is the production of the narration. As with the first book the audio is a combination of 2-3 seperate readings pieced together, seemingly by a 40y/o, 50y/o and 60y/o the way the voice varies in places. Not as bad as the first book of the Savages series but offensive to the ears when it happens.

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don't listen if you are trying to stay awake.

this book is so over the place if you stop listening for 10 seconds you have no idea what's happening. it's also so dull that daydreaming while it is playing is very likely. I've loved the other books by these authors but this book was just not the same standard it felt like they crammed so much useless garbage in just to pad it.

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Exhausting

First book in this whole series that I haven’t been able to listen to all of it. Exhaustive introspective existential ramblings for 34 chapters (9 of which I trudged through). Skipped to chapter 32 and the rest of the book was great.

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Spoiler Ale.. oh no wait there's nothing to Spoil

This is the literary equivalent of a filler episode in the middle of an awesome season of an even better series. This book is like a dumpster-fire where the fire never caught on cause the fire was so bored and uninterested it died.

Do yourself a favour save your money/credit and wait for the next book, which I hope .... HOPE will be like the first.if you wanna know a brief 'good, bad and ugly' review that may contain plot points read below. If you want to read/listen to this book... I warned you.

Stephen Lang... I take my hat off to you sir for reading this book.

The Good:

It's hanging on by a thread in an awesome series in an awesome fictional universe, with great potential. It contains characters we came to admire, cherish and, if I be so bold, care about through their journey in the last book. Rex - old hat and staple character, loose cannon, wants to blow stuff up. Casper - nice bloke cares about people, doesn't want to blow stuff up, the Wildman, Davies, McAphie etc etc the people that fought together and almost died on New Vega... and that's literally it.

The Bad:

The first 34 yes you read that right THIRTY friggen FOUR chapters of this book are dedicated to the savages ... no wait one Savage Marine... who after endless philosophical and existential ranting and ravings (the likes of which would have probably sent all those on the 'Lighthuggers' mad in the first place if they were ever read it in this fictional universe) kills a bunch of humans.

The next 16 chapters really make up for... oh no wait its basically a really long drawn out over the top boot camp to become legionnaires, where Rex is an utter, unequivocal turd and possibly even bordering on the sadistic side with his "TRAINING" which includes physical conditioning random marches, swims and includes with a recruit drowning in a sand pit because of exhaustion. where he is then buried right next to the sand pit by Rex as a lesson to the recruits to not drown. WHAT?

I get it Rex has to condition these recruits into being the toughest in the galaxy and what not but even Casper starts questioning Rex about his mental condition and the purpose of it all.

These people that you've been through Hell with on new Vega, brothers and sisters baptised in Fire means Rex knows what they are capable of and allows them to... NOPE he treats em like rubbish, won't even use their names and pretty much denies knowing any of them or what they've gone through. and when they get into a fight Rex pretty much treats em as cannon fodder, something Rex was so annoyed about in the first book..Huh?

The Ugly:

The total, utter, complete lack of character development.
And the introspection of the Savage Marine. I appreciate the need for a bit of back story about the Savages ... all up for that.
But the whole thrill of this universe is that we don't know everything, there are mysteries, the histories of things are unknown. Intrigue and mystery lead to great plots that keep your audiences wanting to come back for more. When you try to humanise the savages, when you try to explain the rational of something that has been explained as a post human, psychotic crazy and completely nuts, then it just becomes a fight between two opposing sides. Not a struggle between humanity and something else.

The way Rex is developed in this book makes me want to root for the savages in certain chapters.

And just ... JUST AS it starts to get good in the last 3 chapters... well that it folks wait for the next book.

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