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Libre
- A Silver Ships Novel
- Letto da: Grover Gardner
- Durata: 10 ore e 36 min
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The saga of the Rêveur continues in this second novel in the Silver Ships series.
The surviving Méridiens have returned to Confederation space, aided by their recently discovered cousins, the New Terrans. They expect a celebration after their 71-year absence. Instead, they're shocked to find the silver ships have destroyed half the Confederation.
The Méridiens are fleeing in advance of the horde of alien ships. But Alex Racine and his crew didn't come this far to run away from humanity's enemy. They intend to hunt the silver ships. But, to succeed, they need help. Renée de Guirnon, the leader of the Rêveur's Méridiens, reveals a sordid secret of Méridien society: Citizens who defy their House, for any reason, are stripped of their rights, declared "Independents", and imprisoned on the planet Libre. But the Independents aren't everyone's pariahs, especially if you're Alex Racine and you're looking for allies against the silver ships. An entire colony of independent, free-thinking radicals offers just the sort of people Alex wants on his side, so an alliance is struck. Soon the enemy ships will swarm off the planet Bellamonde, and the race begins for Alex and the Librans. The planet must be evacuated and the military force readied before the silver ships attack. Alex knows a battle is coming, but will they have enough time to prepare?
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Generale2 out of 5 stars
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- Gunnermike53
- 04/04/2016
I'm done.
What was most disappointing about S. H. Jucha’s story?
I only made it about a quarter into this book and had enough. No action. All they do is plan and share their feelings and hug. It was so freaking cheesy, even more so than the first.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
The socialist agenda was right there on top in this book too. The implied theme was freedom. Yet he held up his socialist utopia as the way to achieve this freedom. You cannot be free and socialist. Liberty is anathema to socialism.
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You have a bunch of sissies and pansies from two different cultures trying to fight a war. And they suck at it. This book is even more boring than the first. It is a book about people planning to build stuff to make fighters (which is just freaking stupid). The military aspects were written by someone who obviously has never served in a military and has no freaking clue regarding tactics and strategy.Did I mention there is no action. Lots of feelings. Don't waste you credits or time.
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- Amazon Customer
- 31/08/2016
An entire book about logistics!
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Really only a worth a chapter or a short story not an entire book. Endless about the logistics of evacuating a planet. Some interesting elements but not enough to redeem this installment. Some characters are beginning to deteriorate in to cringe worthy stereotypes.
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 02/08/2016
House Alexander saves the day
Libre is S H Jucha 's 2nd Silver Ships installment. The bulk of the action takes place in and around the planet Libre, a Meridien colony world which happens to also include the majority of Meridien independents, individuals who don't want to belong to any specific house. While Alex regroups, replenishes and builds up his forces, he also collects intelligence on the silver ships. Analysis suggests Libre is the next target which sets the main Meridien battle strategy in motion which is to flee. Losing the planet is inevitable, but the fledgling military achieves some of its objectives in straight up fighting
The sci-fi elements are in line with the 1st installment with more creative use of improvised weaponry. The artificial intelligence theme is extended with more players as well as a propensity for art and music. Alex manages to productively engaged these entities which contrasts with standard Meridien interactions that are shallow and of limited productivity. Also, Meridien society is revealed as an unfortunate result of long term complacency such that even death is preferred over minor protocol or safety deviations. Surrounded by Meridien timidity, Terran isolationism, and the Silver Ships inscrutableness, Alex has his work cut out for him, with more implants as the next step. Julian has grown with him and is now probably his best cerebral friend.
Grover Gardner is one of the grand masters of narration which a superb range of characters and a unique talent for accenting his voice to convey thoughts versus spoken words. He also deftly handles the artificial intelligences extremely well and avoids "robotizing" them, while also steering clear of simple anthropomorphism.
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5 persone l'hanno trovata utile
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- D.White
- 04/02/2016
Too Short
I am enjoying the Silver Ship Series, they are both entertaining, and captivating. my only complaint is that the books aren't longer.
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- Hiruu
- 29/04/2016
Great 2nd book
Wow, what an ending! Great book, and I can't wait to listen to the 3rd book.
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- Andrew Pollack
- 07/12/2016
If you liked the first one, you'll like this one
There's a simplicity and an innocence to the books in this series that reminds me of "Golden Age" science fiction. If you're looking for highly complex plotting, deep and intriguing character flaws, or science based explanations for things you're going to be disappointed. This a series for fun. The good guys are very very good. The bad guys are clearly defined. The technology is interestingly imaginative and entirely unexplained. It's a fun, predictable, good guys win kind of story.
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- Jean
- 06/07/2017
A planet of free Meridiens
The Meridiens and New Terrans aboard the ship Reveur have arrived at the planet Libre. Alex Racine is now the Admiral in charge instead of the Captain of Reveur. Renee de Guirnon is the leader of the Meridien’s aboard Reveur. She has defied the de Guirnon House and declared themselves the House of Alexander. They are joining forces with the Independents on the planet Libre. Those people who defied their House were exiled to Libre. Soon they will be in battle with the Silver Ships.
The book is well written. The characters are well developed and interesting. I am enjoying the ship’s AI, Julian, along with the newly added AI’s to the story. There is lots of action along with the creation of a new culture and world building. I am looking forward to book three of the series.
The book is ten and a half hours long. Grover Gardner does an excellent job narrating the book. Gardner is an actor and award-winning audiobook narrator.
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- Bob H.
- 29/03/2016
The saga continues
Great second book. The action and adventure continues. You meet new players and the plot thickens. This is another fun book.
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- Dan E.
- 11/03/2016
Great follow up to Silver Ships
This is a great follow-up to Silver Ships. Once again S.H. Jucha provides a story that engages the listener. I especially appreciate Jucha's decision not to use coarse language or contemporary expletives. These books are about the most family friendly contemporary sci-fi that I have found...and yet they lack nothing. Well done and keep it up Mr. Jucha! Can't wait for the next installment to hit Audible.
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- Amy Cippon
- 04/08/2020
Don't get this book
This book is just a bad fanfic of Alex. He always knows what needs to be done. He knows when someone needs to overcome it themselves. He is God, and because of this, his story is boring. I couldn't finish it so maybe it gets better but I was some 8 hours in and if you haven't made a good impression by then it's not worth anything better that might come later. preformance isn't bad it's really just the material
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- Del
- 20/06/2017
Ripping Yarns in space (part deux)
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I loved this book as much as the first. Having just finished book 2 (and now purchased book 3) it is clear to me that this is not so much a book series as an adventure SERIAL. Each book is one complete episode of an extended story.This episode carries us to the next staging post for the Meridien survivors as they try to survive the invasion of the silver ships and our hero, Alex Racine, leads them with skill, judgement, commitment and, of course, good luck in the nick of time!I found the Meridien's salute to the fallen quite moving and my eyes misted over - soft, old fool that I am.There is more exploration of the developing relationship between the two species of humans and the added flavour of additional SADE's (Self Aware Digital Entities) as they collect more ships.A neat surprise at the end of episode 2 sets us up for episode 3 .... Holy space opera, Batman .... I am loving it !!!!
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- jade
- 19/06/2017
Disappointing book
I was from the last book looking forward to an engaging performance of a good story....this book did not delivery in any way. The book basically talks through a planet getting ready to flee the aliens, that's it
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- Amazon Customer
- 02/05/2023
Lots of interesting ideas but devolves into drab
This book is super cool in it's overal concepts and story. The performance is also excellent, but that won't save the bad writing.
So much potential in this book and the author does nothing with all the cool stuff. An entire planet full of interesting people, cool tech, space battles with aliens and a desperate struggle for survival. Instead the author focuses on the main character God uhm I mean Alex.
In the first book he was a big man due to a higher gravity, big for a human but not giant. I pictured him as a body builder about the size of a large basketball player, definitely huge, but still basically human. In this book he is portrayed as a literal giant, somehow the tonnage of food he consumes is mentioned a lot, he shakes the ship as he pounds the deck in a run, is somehow still fast and nimble etc. At one point he shakes the hand of a teenager using his thumb and finger, has the author ever seen a teenager? They do not have baby hands and why would Alex have huge hands anyways?
The reason for him being large was explained due to his people living on a planet with higher gravity. This would make sense, as this would lead to increased bone mass and muscles. But this would also make them less tall, not taller than the regular humans. Think more of dwarves, not giants.
Not only is Alex somehow the biggest man whom ever lived, he is also the smartest man ever, has basically no flaws and went from loner tug owner to leader of hundreds of thousands of people over the course of months. Of course he is also the admiral, leader of the military, lead strategist, a space engineer, friend to all, philosophist, house founder and leader etc. The man does it all. The rules don't apply to them and he has a magic way with man and machine alike. And throughout all this he can do no wrong, his only vice is caring too much.
Then there is the women in the book, oof, I wonder if the author has ever met a woman in person. The author goes out of his way to make all traditional male roles female, but then also makes them basically giggling teenage girls, who can do little but swoon over men and especially Alex. The characters are flat beyond belief and some of the lines made me cringe.
Renee, a proud independent woman, who has had her whole life turned upside down and was looking forward to making her own decisions at the end of the last book, is a shadow of that interesting character in this book. She's become nothing but a token wife, a moral support and does things like clean Alex, dress Alex, feed Alex etc. She went from being a leader to "Let's make babies"
The introduction of a strong German theme is fine, if it actually served a purpose or at least is explained in any way. It's not and it serves no purpose, it's even somewhat forgotten at some points and is just distracting at best.
It really sucks, because this book has so much going for it, but the execution is terrible. I'm going to give the next book a chance, but if the main character doesn't improve I will abandon the series.
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- Frankie tea
- 22/04/2023
Above mid
i've seen a mixed batch of reviews and empathise with both good and bad.
The lionisation of our 'admiral' mirrors problems the second dune had, we'd manifested the powers to defeat our enemy and elevated the prime character above the surrounding characters. The messiah complex is plain despite his obvious charms and influence. The final sequence gives me hope for book 3, and while i recognise the german references are jarring I am sure there will be an explanation about this later in the way the colonies were formed. The kindness and humour are a tonic given the volume of very ugly stories available at present. I also felt this episode was patchy and struggled a quarter of the way through, i feel more sophisticated exposition of libre and the independent culture would have been worthwhile to gain better traction at that time.
Edit 12.05.23
I have listened far beyond and even purchased the audible volume for book 7 and am glad I took the further journey.
Having fully understood the less positive reviews I know the future direction and the seeds are here, there is explanation of how the German aspect which absolutely does jar the listening experience of this book and the cast certainly expands beyond Alex and his friend Julian. The heart and interactions develop to such poetic heights that without spoilers brought me to tears, particularly at Allora which despite the size is already my favourite... I am looking forward to revisting this book with my future knowledge of outcomes as this universe expands. The grounding around Alex and Julian is key to the flourishes that begin here.
Definitely a valuable step and worth the friction if any is found.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17/10/2022
The worst book ive ever bought!
Wow where to start.
I bought the audible version. Probably the only way I managed to get through it.
Silver Ships 1 is quite a good book of its genre and an interesting idea. Space tug captain, rescues an alien ship and surviving crew and on its goes. Good pace held my interest.
However, the second book Libre is a truly dreadful book, so badly written. Tug boat captain has now morphed into a 4 star Admiral and god like saviour of humanity, a superb military tactician. All of the female characters have become fluff, demure 2 dimensional characters.
The author is obviously obsessed by how much he can eat in comparison to other humans in the story. He has also grown in stature becoming an Intellectual and physically powerful GOD like GIANT of a man that everyone fawns over in comparison to every other character. Saviour of humanity. Nonsense!
There are attempts at humour that fall flat. Introducing a German theme half way through that is so jarring.
The book is not only sexist and condescending but boring and repetitive.
Just awful awful awful.
There is no way this should have a 4.4 Rating it should be binned and trashed as pile. Please don't waste the paper, your money, your time. Utterly disappointing and several other words I cant use
Shockingly bad
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- Tony
- 18/05/2022
lost interest
First book was OK
2nd.book, lots of hero worship, repetition, young adult type. just found it felt very padded. I see there are a lot, I've seen 19 in this series so best bail now as I think it's not for me....
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Generale3 out of 5 stars
- Cross.Smith
- 21/03/2022
Mustn't grumble
These are a long read. The books are more about how it all happened rather than what happened and boy does the author go into detail. The characters are uncomplicated and there is no intrigue or suspence to the story. As such you can wile away time and not worry what you might have missed if you fall asleep. Fair enough, and the books were included in the plus catalogue so mustn't grumble too much. I'm stopping here at the third book having had my fill.
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- CJSILV
- 27/05/2020
Great book 👍
Great book can't wait to listen to the next one great story love the narration i highly recommend listening to this book series 👍👍
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- Mr. William J. Moody
- 19/10/2019
A continuation
After the first book of the silver ships I was expecting a continuation of the same or similar kind of action, I was disappointed. I have to admit that had I been reading the book myself I would probably have ended my adventure with the silver ships before the end of the second chapter. Perseverance and a wish not to waste the buying of a book made me complete the volume and I’m glad I did. The whole adventure on Libre is one of familiarity with a new people and a new way of life. One great difficulty for me was trying to remember all the different names and individuals that became part of the story, as the departure of Libre grew closer though I was happy to have just a broad sense of who the characters were and the individual positions they held. Having taken note of how many Silver Ships sequels there are I am happy to have had the introduction to a growing family of a remarkable race. The final chapters brought back the excitement of battle and gave me back the ability to become engrossed in the story once more, of course by doing this should anyone be as emotionally reactive as myself you would not be able to hold back the tears of sadness during the recognition ceremony for the people that had been lost in the efforts to escape the silver ships. So now I’m just glad I persevered with the adventure and look forward to the continuation of a story I have now committed myself to finishing.
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- Eamon Fitzpatrick
- 19/03/2019
Enjoyable
This book and series so far is enjoyable. It is very light and easy also predictable which is not always a bad thing. It reminds me in some ways of E.E. Doc Smith's Lensmen Series, relaxing but wanting to get to the end.
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