Bel Breaker

By: Chris Cardenas

Narrated by: Talia Carver

Water didn't flow right on Hidrin, not as it used to. It’s been like this for millennia. Rather than rest in basins or canyons, waters rise high into the sky to pierce clouds and race over continents. Bels, they are called. Mimicking the image of a yarn ball, they weave over and under one another, disrupting the already fractured view of the stars. Strange sights, but sights that people have grown comfortable and accustomed to.

As the fish learned to ride them, so too did humanity. From one end of a continent to another, humans used bels for transport, trade, and of course, warfare. Now waged with machines of once impossible mobility, there are few bodies of water on Hidrin that haven't seen conflict. And those that haven’t need only wait for the next war and their turn.

Unfortunately for Mint and her home of Vostoria, that turn had finally come. She just didn’t think they would be separate turns. As Vostoria becomes awash with combat, she finds herself swept elsewhere and with few options to get back. Whether the result of dumb luck, mere coincidence, or genuine fate, Mint’s course was set for both discovery and disaster.

©2022 Chris Cardenas (P)2022 Chris Cardenas

The world

Overall its in-depth descriptions of a world, factions, war, character building was awesome! Needs to be made into its own animation.

Great story and i hope there's a follow up

The story revolves around underwater mech units and their pilots. There are a LOT of new terms and ideas that are hard to place early on in the story, but things start to click eventually...just in time to learn more terms once the fighting starts. You don't get enough time with most of the characters for them to be too nuanced, but the relationships (friendly and antagonistic) still feel real enough.

The narrating and the fight scenes were done very well and I would definitely be interested in a follow-up after the world changing climactic event.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Really enjoyable

I liked the different setting. it was unique. The story moved well and did not Bog down in my opinion. There are enough hints and tidbits to keep going with the series, expanding on this one.

very good

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall