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Salvage Marines
- Necrospace, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
To protect his young family from merciless corporate tyranny, Samuel Hyst signs up for the hazardous life of a salvage marine, the foot soldiers of a militarized deep space operation. Hazard pay is high for a reason, and Samuel must endure grueling tours of duty in the abandoned scrapyard quadrants of a war-torn universe.
Endless wars rage across every galaxy, leaving damaged starships, rusted factories, and broken planets in their wake, all ripe for plunder by the desperate and the daring.
Samuel must seize his destiny in frenzied combat against murderous scavengers, horrific monsters, and the elite mercenaries of rival corporations.
Left with no choice but to fight, he must win freedom with a combat rifle and his blowtorch.
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- miss s.l.m.r. hackman
- 05-04-22
A good read
I enjoyed this as a short novella - it was a bit choppy in places, bouncing across long periods of time between actions, but if you read it for what it is, it is a reasonable bit of military sci-fi. If it had been longer, there could have been more detail but enjoyable fr what it is.
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- James
- 07-11-18
enjoyed it a lot!
I've read the series and enjoyed it the audio book is great well worth getting.
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- Adam Cheung
- 08-07-22
Decent
Quite an interesting military sci-fi, though it is a bit choppy in places and I wish it was longer.
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- Serenity
- 17-01-23
Corporations rule
The corporations rule, you are born in debt and spend your life trying to pay it off, before it is passed to your children on death. Samuel Hyst wants to pay off his debt and save his unborn child from the burden. He signs up the the Reapers, high rewards but at high risk, can he stay alive and reunite with his wife and child, debt free
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- Missgotty
- 04-04-22
Rapid fire description's
This is a fast paced action book with rapid fire descriptions which seem to endlessly go on. There wasn't much character development so I wasn't very engaged with the book and kept loosing interest.
I was given this book for free of my own choosing and voluntarily left this review.
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- Layla
- 21-03-23
Salvage Marines.
I have to admit to not finishing it. I found it slow going to begin with but I kept on listening thinking it'll get better, then the main character Samuel slept with another female who was not his wife. I let it go first time but when he did it again and made excuses for it, I had no desire to read on. He decided to go and become a marine and he wanted his wife and yet he decided to throw it away because he was far away from his wife and child. If he was single this wouldn't have mattered, but I hated the fact that he only thought of himself and not his wife. I also hate the fact that they use drinking as an excuse to sleeping with someone. This is not the only author who has done this in their novels.
This is not for me.
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- Anselm
- 13-02-23
Good action, but not much story
Salvage Marine feels like a book written by a gamer who enjoys writing, rather than someone who's really honed the writing craft. Long sections of it are very info-dumpy, and there really is no overarching story or character development. The action sequences are done quite well, except for the lack of a consistent POV (for long segments, Samuel seems almost incidental) and extended moments of introspection and infodumps even right in the thick of combat. Some of the language used belongs more to the gaming world than anything else, and there was precious little here that didn't seem borrowed from franchises like 40k or Aliens. I didn't hate it, but was a little bored in places just because there wasn't much in the way of stakes or a character to be invested in. There was a sort of 'final thought' on Samuel's part, which I appreciated, but it also felt a little contrived since the idea had been obvious to me from early on, and I thought it was understood by Samuel from the outset.
A decent first try at a book, and the author obviously has the enthusiasm and drive to write, but needs to spend more time understanding what makes a good story.
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