Rebellion
Galaxy's Edge: Dark Operator, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Dexter
About this listen
There’s only one distraction from the stress of combat for a legionnaire - the next mission. For Sergeant Kel Turner and Kill Team Three, the wait is never long. Whether it’s on a core world snatching a delusional genius who knows too much or on the edge forging allies among a complex alien culture, Dark Ops are the foot soldiers of the House of Reason’s galactic game for dominance.
Danger looms over Kel and his teammates like taxes over a Republic citizen. The promise is written in blood. Now they face a crisis that makes their worst firefight tame in comparison. Kel learns that sometimes there are no clear answers, manuals, or templates to follow. Isolated from Republic help, when the lives of thousands hang in the balance, a planet looks for a savior.
Fortunately, when there’s a dark operator on hand, the odds favor the Legion.
Galaxy’s Edge: Dark Operator follows the earliest days of Legion Dark Ops following the Savage Wars. Written by US Army veteran Doc Spears with Galaxy’s Edge cocreators Jason Anspach and Nick Cole, Dark Operator: Rebellion is a thrilling military action epic!
©2020 Galaxy’s Edge, LLC (P)2020 Audible, Inc.What listeners say about Rebellion
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Dallas
- 23-01-2021
The good guys win but why do i care?
I struggled to finish, the plot did not grab my attention in any way. Sorry but i feel like the authors phoned it in.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Scott Cassin
- 09-05-2023
Narrator makes it sound like a fairytale
The tone, tempo makes this sound more like a fairytale… story was good enough this
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 29-10-2020
Just as Bland as the First
So, I guess this is on me. Long review inbound.
Book 1 was disappointing (to say the least), but I thought maybe it was used as a slow starter to get the character setup for more development in subsequent books. I gave book 2 the benefit of the doubt and threw an Audible credit at it. Oh boy was I wrong.
I write this review with the full knowledge that any kind of story I'd write would probably come out similar to this nothing sandwich of a book, but I guess that's the cause for my disappointment - Ive come to expect so much more from GE books that these two entries have thrown me so much I felt the need to review them.
To start with, the main character is presented as Gods gift to the universe. He can solve every problem, defeat every enemy, and resolve every 'crisis' - although I'm using that term lightly as a genuine crisis would require some sense of serious consequence for failing to resolve it - we'll get to that later.
His plans suffer no set backs, his ideas are genius, and he never experiences any form of struggle or difficulty - he is the manifestation of "meh." I feel like he's someone's (somewhere?) idea of what a "cool operator dude" is like, but instead he came out as a half baked high functioning psychopath who's clock is ticking down to "murder time" rather than "save the galaxy and look cool doing it."
The story, similar to the first book, can best be described as "a series of events that happen." Probably due more to the infallibility of the main character, there is no weight to the situations as they occur, no sense of what if, no sense of consequence.
Bad things only happen to other people, not our main guy - he'll be fine; and I mean, even when bad things happen to others our guy does a token "oh no" and runs the 'emotion_simulation.exe' for a few minutes before returning to normal run time procedures and resolving all the current issues with one master stroke that has no negative or unforeseen consequences. And there's that word again by the way, consequences. That thing that this guy never has to deal with.
As a nice change of pace to the first book, the 'crisis' for this builds up and flows logically. There's no "oh maybe this will happen" subplots which are forgotten about 5 seconds after they're initiated, but it again suffers from the feeling of "oh, that was it?" You blink and you'd miss the final resolution, but again, this is more a reflection of the way the crisis was dealt with - yep, you guessed it, our master genius sociopath walked into the room and winked while giving the finger guns, and everyone just decided to share their toys and play nice.
I could go on, but everything I take issue with in this 2 part series (so far) seems to be traced back to old mate protagonist. I'd like to say future books could be saved by having him suffer (oh how I'd love to see this emotionally detached little piece of dry white toast suffer), or at least have some sort of serious "oh damn" challenge thrown his way, but I feel we're now so deep down the rabbit hole on this guy that the only logical pathway for him to show emotion or growth at this stage is a full emotional breakdown from the pressure, trauma, and survivors guilt of seeing bad things happen to everyone but him.
Please, for the love of God, make this character suffer. He has the emotional depth of a dry puddle on concrete. He solves everything without difficulty or struggle. Make him work for it, make him grow, and stop having everyone around him stare at him with doe eyes and whisper sweet nothings about his ever increasing levels of awesome. The dude is boring, and so are the books.
(I'll be back for book 3 because I genuinely want to see what your end game is for this fictional equivalent of a lazy river ride.)
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