Orbs III

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

At the end of the world, who do you save?

There's sabotage from within and a strange virus is infecting the last human survivors of an alien invasion in Nicholas Sansbury Smith's smart and exciting third book in the best-selling Orbs series.

With the alien armies growing stronger, Sophie's biosphere decides to join forces with the team from NTC's submarine. Using data from a surviving satellite, they discover strange alien poles at each of the world's seven highest summits: alien technology that the survivors believe may hold the key to shutting down the alien ships once and for all.

But before the two teams can launch an offensive, the biosphere must deal with sabotage from within and a strange nanotechnology that has infected several of the survivors. As tensions rise, Sophie and team must decide whether their new discovery is worth abandoning the biosphere. The more the team learns, the more they realize that Earth may be beyond saving and that salvation may require leaving the planet forever.

A splendid mix of horror, suspense, and science fiction, Orbs III upends the classic alien invasion story into an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride.

©2018 Nicholas Sansbury Smith (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Mankind's Last Stand!

In Orbs 3 mankind fights the alien monsters on the land, in the air and on and under the sea. Our military is dedicated and honorable with Captain Noble leading the struggle. Our scientists continue to come up with creative inventions to help in the fight and our children show humanity's heart and hope as they face the absolute terror of the spiders relentless pursuit of Earth's remaining survivors.

This is a grim struggle but I could not put the book down or stop listening. The author and narrator make me feel the emotions and travel this journey with the characters. When I finished this book I could not wait for Orbs 4 because I could see the promised hope for the future and I wanted to see where the creative Nicholas Sansbury Smith will take his readers.

Great addition to an amazing series!

I have to say right here and now that I was thrilled Nicholas Sansbury Smith decided to write a fourth book, the fact that Anthony J Melchiorri is co-writing it is just icing on that cake of awesomeness. Cause let me tell you... I needed a fourth book.

Back to this book... I love the fact that this book ended as it did, I just need it to not be the final ending. Too many questions that I need answered. This has been a dark twisted tale that led me places where I KNEW what was coming next and... wait a minute, that DIDN’T happen. How did that not happen? I absolutely loved that even as I wanted to yell at the author. I sat there going ‘no. That did NOT wasn’t how that was supposed to go!’ However that was exactly how it went. Every time. Love this book and the series just keep getting better.

Great sequel

This is one heck of an action packed book. I'm really glad Bronson Pinchot re-narrated the series as I've stated in other reviews. He really brought the story to life and it was good to have one narrator for all four books. If you enjoy post apoc fiction Nicholas Sansbury Smith and Bronson Pinchot are a great team!

Amazing story, amazing narration!

Wow. So far this series is amazing. I was gripped from the first paragraph of Orbs 1 and couldn't stop listening. Kept me gripped while at work. This story has tension, relief, happiness, sorrow, anger, disbelief (as in 'omg, how can they ever survive this?), hope, crushing blows, and so on. NSS hits all the emotional aspects which make a story great. Each character is real. They act and react exactly how we all would in a situation like that. Hopefully we never need to find out!

Bronson did such a stellar job voicing everyone. Many times male narrators can't pull off a believable female voice (and vice versa), but I gotta give Bronson props; he did real well for the women in the stories. Even the AI's were delivered in a way that truly sounded like it was actual ai speaking. He gave each ai their own voice which was perfect imo.

A few times I stepped back and put myself in the aliens' shoes (after all, WE are aliens to other beings on other planets and galaxies) and if my world was losing its water, I'd want to keep my species alive as desperately as possible. I wouldn't suck ANY planet dry, though. I'd draw the line there. Take 10% of the water (which isn't a lot based from earths supply) and leave, then do the same elsewhere. No more and no less than 10% of the entire worlds water supply). I'd DEFINITELY not suck it all out of the beings who live there either. I'd never ever want to fully eradicate any species because I'd put myself in their shoes as well. It's never right to take 100% of someone else's thing just because you run out or lose it all. Don't 100% destroy anything just to gain. Let everyone thrive. It's not hard to do.

Get this series. You absolutely won't regret it.

Let there be more

I really love this book series. I hope that Nick Smith will continue to write it. The characters are lovable and detestable. The aliens are terrifying and sinister. You have hope built and tore down. This book is a really hard one to put down. I highly recommend it! Pinchot brings an amazing depth to the book that I did not have before listening to it.