Resolute

Very interesting book series

The continuing story of John (Blackjack) Geary he's returned from the dead to save the Alliance, he's made new friends, made new enemies and discovered new intelligent species. I've thoroughly enjoyed Resolute as I've enjoyed all the previous books. Christian Rummel is a talented reader you can imagine all the different characters and recognise thier voices as he reads a very talented man indeed, however I noticed a very very annoying change after each person has spoken he's says 'John said' or 'Tanya said' it stops the flow of the dialogue and you know who is talking not only because you've been advised John asked Tanya or you know there voices I can not for the life of me understand why you would ruin the narration of this book by doing that. I still highly recommend the book

This review was originally posted on Books of My Heart   Review copy was received from Publisher. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. If you have enjoyed Jack Campbell's other series, Lost Fleet and Beyond the Frontier, and Lost Stars,  Genesis Fleet series, you will love this too.  I started reading Jack Campbell in 2015 when I was sent an ARC of one of the Leviathon, which was the final book in the Beyond the Frontier series.   Of course with my OCD,  I had to read the previous NINE books before I could read it.  I was in the middle of moving from Minnesota to North Carolina, so I got the audio CDs from the library.  And thus, my love affair with this world began. I LOVE this world and these characters so much.  They have survived a lot and struggled and lost close friends and family.   There have been traitors and devious politicians and those who just want power for themselves.  Throughout it all, they have worked hard and with intelligence and compassion.   They have character strength to look closely at the situation with trying to help others and improve relationships. The smart strategy of the battles always thrills me.  The situations are life and death but Geary and his team remain calm and controlled.  Geary's dislike of politics provides comic relief.  I also have the advantage of having read all the books in all these series so with the history just a mention of a character brings to mind their humorous antics or strength or troubles from past books.  So I would read these in order even though there are many books now. Resolute is the second in the new Outlands series which is the farthest into the future of the Lost Fleet world.  I am thrilled to have the story continue and see my many beloved characters.   Geary's fleet is out on a diplomatic mission to form relations with the Dancers.   The politicians want Geary out of the way as he is too popular with the people and there are assassination attempts as well.  The Midway system wants in on the negotiation and sends a team along. There are battles with the Enigmas on the way there and a gamble on forming better relationships with them.  The Dancers seem surprised to see them unannounced and take time to come up with a "plan".  While they are waiting for the Dancers to progress communication with them, another alien species comes into the star system.  The Fleet sends a friendly message but gets no response.  Eventually, they learn the new people are the Taon. The rest of the story is the incredible development of relations with the Taon, the Dancers and a political conspiracy. It's exciting and fun.  I also admire these people so highly for their skills at dealing with life and death, and developing these relations.  I highly recommend all these series in this world. Narration: I'm so comfortable with Christian Rummel.  Since this is one of the first series I listened to on audio, he was one of the first narrators.  He is a favorite.   The voices are differentiated enough I recognize the different people.  The narration adds greatly to my enjoyment; I don't have to figure out how to pronounce anything!  I listened at my normal 1.5x speed.   Listen to a clip: HERE