Fallen Empire Series v1-3 (2016) [-]
Mar 25 2024
Lindsay Buroker's Fallen Empire series spans eight novels and some short stories. I listened to the first three books on audio narrated by Kate Reading.
This is a universe where a star-spanning Empire has just fallen six months before and though still around is now confined to one world. The Alliance, which overthrew the Empire, has a core homeworld and a shaky hold on nearby worlds. But it seems like much of the inhabited planets are near or totally lawless.
Alisa Marchenko is a former alliance fighter pilot. In the first book she finds herself out of the hospital after six months -- having been shot down in one of the final battles of the war -- and stranded on a backwards and now unaligned world. She manages to repossess her mother's freighter Star Nomad and gets herself a misfit crew and passengers hoping for transport off world.
This is told in first person from Alisa's point of view though the other main character is Leonidas, former Colonel in the Empire's Cyborg Corps. Although he was an enemy now he's someone with his own mission which might conflict with Alisa's loyalties. But as the story goes on he turns out to be a taciturn but decent person and they have a definite attraction by the end of book three.
Book 1 is getting the people together, getting off planet, then exploring an abandoned science station and tangling with space pirates. Book 2 Alisa returns home to find her daughter has been kidnapped by Star Seers (a psionic faction that almost overthrew the Empire several generations ago). Book 3 they visit a Star Seer temple for information though the Star Seers are not that friendly to outsiders.
It's an ok series. Moves along in a slow way but always forward. It does seem like not much happens in each book so it's not surprising it took eight books to tell the whole epic. Don't think I'd recommend it though. Not that I regret listening to these novels but there must be better stories out there.
Just noticed that all the books seem to have been written over the course of less than a year so i guess that explains the lack of progress in each novel.
This is a universe where a star-spanning Empire has just fallen six months before and though still around is now confined to one world. The Alliance, which overthrew the Empire, has a core homeworld and a shaky hold on nearby worlds. But it seems like much of the inhabited planets are near or totally lawless.
Alisa Marchenko is a former alliance fighter pilot. In the first book she finds herself out of the hospital after six months -- having been shot down in one of the final battles of the war -- and stranded on a backwards and now unaligned world. She manages to repossess her mother's freighter Star Nomad and gets herself a misfit crew and passengers hoping for transport off world.
This is told in first person from Alisa's point of view though the other main character is Leonidas, former Colonel in the Empire's Cyborg Corps. Although he was an enemy now he's someone with his own mission which might conflict with Alisa's loyalties. But as the story goes on he turns out to be a taciturn but decent person and they have a definite attraction by the end of book three.
Book 1 is getting the people together, getting off planet, then exploring an abandoned science station and tangling with space pirates. Book 2 Alisa returns home to find her daughter has been kidnapped by Star Seers (a psionic faction that almost overthrew the Empire several generations ago). Book 3 they visit a Star Seer temple for information though the Star Seers are not that friendly to outsiders.
It's an ok series. Moves along in a slow way but always forward. It does seem like not much happens in each book so it's not surprising it took eight books to tell the whole epic. Don't think I'd recommend it though. Not that I regret listening to these novels but there must be better stories out there.
Just noticed that all the books seem to have been written over the course of less than a year so i guess that explains the lack of progress in each novel.