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Crusade

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By: David Weber, Steve White
Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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Spacers call the warp point Charon's Ferry. No star ship has ever entered it and returned since a vengeful Orion task force pursued a doomed Terran colonization fleet into it in 2206. Almost a century has passed. The fiery hatreds of a quarter-century of warfare between the Terran Federation and the Zheeerlikou'valkhannaieeee, the cat-like species humans called the "Orions", have eased at least a little. The "Grand Alliance" forged by the need to fight side-by-side against the genocidal Rigelians remains, but there are those on either side who continue to hate, continue to distrust. Now the strength of that war-forged alliance is about to be tested. For Charon's Ferry is about to give up the secret of its dead. A ship has emerged from the deadly warp point at last. A ship which responds to the challenge of an Orion star ship using ancient human communications codes...then opens fire. The holocaust of interstellar warfare has been ignited anew, in a bloody crusade to free Holy Mother Terra.

©1992 David Weber & Steve White (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Space Opera Science Fiction War Fiction Fantasy
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

No I would not, Although the general story was interesting, as were some of the Characters, The overall writing was not very good. During the story it moved along and it was passably enjoyable, however that was more due to the narrator than the writing. He did a fantastic job. The writing itself was devoid of any real description. Ships were described by a class, no visual cues as to the shape, design, or function of any of the items, ships, or characters is present. Its all a vague notion to the story, which jumps over time randomly.

Has Crusade turned you off from other books in this genre?

No, I enjoy Sci-Fi and Space Operas, but this book left me very disappointed. It has similar characters, and the same idea as most other David Weber novels, a religion based on a lie violently oppressing other groups, one of the members voices concerns and abdandons it for the rationality of modern man, on and on, the same formula as the third part of "Empire from the Ashes", same as the Foundation series, and others of his books. Boring rehash of the same ideology.

What does Marc Vietor bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

A wide range of Accents and Voices that help to cover for the unoriginal writing and bland descriptions.

Did Crusade inspire you to do anything?

To be more careful of what books I purchase, to avoid wasting my time. I tried to give it a fair shot but ended up very disappointed.

Interesting concept, poor execution!

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The action is great however the direction in which story line goes from one character to another and one story line the to a completely different character and another story line was VERY confusing. Sometimes I was lost and confused by the sudden different directions. Overall a good story

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Awesome! I have read all of David Weber's books. He is a master story teller.

Epic story!!

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it feels as if you're watching a movie with your ears. I've read the Shiva Option many years ago and for some reason I thought it was the first in the series and I was wrong but boy was I happy I was because now I get to enjoy all of them. this was an amazing experience and my introduction to Audible books and I'm going to stay with this from now on.You will not regret this so just do it already.

Just AWESOME

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Have you listened to any of Marc Vietor’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

The reader didn't give any indication of when the scene changed from one to the next, and there were a lot of these in this book, so many parts of the book were very confusing until I cross checked with my paper version.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The heroism in this book brought tear to my eyes!

It's confusing if you didn't read the paper book

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