The Accidental War
A Novel of the Praxis
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David Drummond
About this listen
Blending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the first volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times best-selling author of The Praxis, set in the universe of his popular and critically acclaimed Dread Empire’s Fall series - a tale of blood, courage, adventure, and battle in which the fate of an empire rests in the hands of a cadre of desperate exiles.
It’s been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox tactics by a rigid, tradition-bound military establishment, Captain Gareth Martinez and Captain Lady Sula are stewing in exile, frustrated and impatient to exercise the effective and lethal skills they were born to use in fighting the enemy.
Yet after the ramshackle empire left by the Shaa conquerors is shaken by a series of hammer blows that threaten the foundations of the commonwealth, the result is a war no one planned, no one expected, and no one knows how to end.
Now, Martinez, Sula, and their confederate Nikki Severin must escape the clutches of their enemies, rally the disorganized elements of the fleet, and somehow restore the fragile peace - or face annihilation at the hands of a vastly superior force.
©2018 Walter Jon Williams (P)2018 HarperCollins PublishersWhat listeners say about The Accidental War
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- James
- 09-03-2022
Good continuation
Story is another great listen. The narration was a change that didn't agree with me at first, but I found that playing at 90% speed made it sound less like a computer generated train station announcer.
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- Krystof Tyl
- 03-05-2022
Change of narrator!!
I really struggled to convince myself to listen to this book due to the change of narrator! A really good book ruined by such a poor decision.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Wuilen
- 14-03-2023
Great story but spoiled by narrator
Great story although honestly no offense to the narrator the series started with one narrator and I was used to the voice and recognize the character by the way he was speaking and with the new narrator it’s just terrible. The rythme is like google translate voice.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Robert Williams
- 18-02-2022
Spoiled by mediocre narration. Why new narrator and not a good one at that
A reasonable continuation of a great story spoiled by mediocre narration by a new narrator. Why change narrator in the middle of a series and why not get a really good narrator to add to the story, this narrator sounded bored and the next narrator in the series is even worse l, wake up audio books depend on good narration.
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- DMC
- 11-03-2022
changing narrator has ruined it.
changing narrator in the middle of a series has just ruined the immersion and characters of the story.
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- Chiara Atwell
- 23-07-2022
Awesome new narrator, Great follow on
New Narrator is much better than the last by far! Brings more depth to the characters
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-02-2023
Poor reading
Not a patch on the previous 3 novels. Narration/reading terrible makes it difficult to feel the story and get into the rhythm of the previous books.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-02-2023
Walter Jon Williams should complain about narrator
I think they used some sort of Stephen Hawking style text to voice for the narration. Except for the parts containing speech, that was done by some over the top performing arts students. Very strange. Ruined it.
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- Nic Gibbens
- 25-11-2022
Couldn’t stand the narrator!
This is the worst narration I’ve ever tried to listen to. It is so wooden it completely removes you from the narrative. Story only gets three stars as I had to give up lest I pull my own ears off or die of boredom from the narrator’s voice. A shame as I was enjoying the novel on my kindle but this has just ruined it for me.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-09-2022
worst in the series so far.
The frustrating inactivity of the story makes this entire book come off as a total stall tactic. There is no evidence of of continuity in this entire instalment barring the fact the characters have the same names. not only does the narrator compete depict a different atmosphere the writing itself feels like the author was either completely lazy, forgetful or edited into the ground.
My major issue is the lack of urgency, stakes, and mainly satisfaction. Almost every opportunity for a character to move a story line forward they would conveniently forget their character traits of competence.
At best this book was lazy but I think it was more of an attempt to pad the book count up for a longer series.
I mean they can't even read the chapter numbers accurately.
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