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A Hymn Before Battle

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A Hymn Before Battle

By: John Ringo
Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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 With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the Galactic Federation offers help to the backward humans - for a price. You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies!©2001 John Ringo (P)2009 Audible, Inc. Adventure Military Science Fiction Space Opera Space Fiction

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Would you listen to A Hymn Before Battle again? Why?

YES a good store well told is always worth a second telling

Who was your favorite character and why?

Michal O'Neal plays the typical hero.

Which character – as performed by Marc Vietor – was your favourite?

To mant to name, both goodies and villians

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

It's to long for me to take in one hit.

Any additional comments?

If you like the Stat Force series, I feal sure you will like this.

Brilliant storie, grate naration, Highley recomend

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Really good story, a little slow for my liking but in general a damn good bit of space Sci-fi. very much enjoying and a really good performance. Thank you

Good scfi

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Where does A Hymn Before Battle rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It was interesting and I am glad it was included, as it made me laugh, and look forward to reading all of his books.

What did you like best about this story?

The story line, the characters and the way it was written

What about Marc Vietor’s performance did you like?

He is such an imaginative writer, and has a great way of expressing himself.

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

I laughed and cried, the characters are real

Any additional comments?

Read Chris Fieldwarer IRA Intrusion, not to the high standard of Victors writing, but enjoyable, also the Contagion books

Ten out of Five thats how good it was

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Classic ringo over the top military sci fi fun :-). Takes a while to get into the hard core fighting, but it's interesting anyway and worth the wait.

Epic battles!

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First book in a series so lots of detail that will be used in following books. A bit slow to start with but gets better in the final quarter of the book. Narrator was excellent.

Slow

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I really loved the Prince Roger series and liked Troy Rising.
Monster Hunter fell flat and this is in the same category.
In this case i really disliked the narrator but got to the end.
He also ruined Hyperion for me so it is getting personal...
The book itself is interesting but not groundbreaking. The story is more interesting for what it hints at and leaves for the next book presumably.
The clicks and accents are awful, the clicking is fun in the beginning but he tries too hard and too often.
I did not like the underlying stupidity of the commanders messing up everything but this may be a conspiracy of the aliens.
Not sure if i will get to it.

Bombastic narrator ruins the day... AGAIN!

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If you enjoy military sci-fi with lots of combat with dastardly aliens then this is definitely for you. I am not averse to some large scale terrestrial battles and details of weaponry and tactics - and this is well written - but I do like some other plot points to take up a reasonable fraction of The story overall, whereas this book is, after the initial build up, one skirmish after another. I enjoyed John Ringo's collaborations with David Weber ( the 'Empire of Man series) immensely, but this story does not pat sufficient attention to
other elements ,- characterisation and personal relationships for example- to go with the military details - at least for my liking. So I will not rush to the next in the series..But if battles and weapons and tactical detail in an imagined future is your bag, then this might well be for you.

Military sci fi

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