BattleTech: The Damocles Sanction

TO REFORGE A NATION…

The once-mighty Federated Suns has been weakened by years of conflict on both sides of its border. Its proud capitol, New Avalon, has been held by its mortal enemies, the Draconis Combine, for years, forcing First Prince Julian Davion to rule his fractious nation on the run.

But at long last, the time to liberate New Avalon from the Dragon is at hand. And despite very different opinions as to how they retake the Davion family’s seat of power, Julian and his Prince’s Champion, Field Marshal Erik Sandoval, must work together to free the planet, the first step to rebuilding their proud nation.

Yet liberating New Avalon is only the first step. While the First Prince attempts to hold the marches together and the Prince’s Champion battles Draconis Combine forces on nearby worlds, new threats lurk around every corner. Facing dangers both at home and abroad, both men must fight to preserve the Davion throne while ensuring their own rivalry doesn’t spark a brand-new conflict—one that could tear the Federated Suns apart all over again…

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Great addition and continues the saga of battletech.

Good narrative. Okay reading. The different recordings chopped together must be intentional but i cant figure out the reason. To the women narrator… youve been in a few battletech novels now… and still manage to horribly mispronounce common words of multiple languages. Please do your research ahead of time. It really throws me out of the narrative when the mispronunciation happens, which Im sure is not your intention.

Great Story

A very well written Inner Sphere centric story. It was an excellent way to move the universe forward.
My only complaint is the mispronounced names by the female narrator.

Good story, lackluster narration

The story was great. Exactly what I want and expect from a BattleTech novel. Lots of stompy robots, political intrigue, and character drama.

I would have preferred to read the book though. The narrators were a bit flat in the delivery and there were a lot of pronunciation errors that really broke immersion. This has been a consistent trend with recent audiobooks and it feels like there’s no proofing or care put into the performance.

Compelling characters and political intrigue

enjoy the story and universe of Battletech. this is one of my favorit books with my favorite Character Erik Sandoval.

the biggest detracor is the audio quality. obvious cuts to re-recorded sentences with vastly different audio really detracts from the story and pulls you out of the moments.

Audio issues

This audio book had tons of audio issues. Within the same paragraph the audio would degrade; sounding like a re-recording from a radio. It was incredibly jarring. There were some mispronunciations for some of the Combine names and terms from one narrator to the other. Overall though, the story and performances were solid.