SADEs

The Silver Ships

By: S. H. Jucha

Narrated by: Susanna Burney

Dangerous forces are at work across galactic space that the Omnians are attempting to stabilize, but their resources are severely strained.

The SADEs, self-aware digital entities, express to Alex Racine and Renée de Guirnon their desire to know the method of their creation. Alex and Renée, the Omnian co-leaders, want to obtain the knowledge for the SADEs, who are humans’ closest allies.

Alex, Renée, and Julien, a friend and a SADE, board the giant city-ship, Freedom, which sails for Méridien, the home world of the far-reaching human colonies of the Confederation. They have a long overdue appointment with House Brixton, the Méridien group responsible for creating the SADEs. However, Shannon Brixton, the House Leader, is expected to zealously guard the secrets of the SADEs’ origination.

While at Méridien, Alex receives an urgent message requesting help in alliance space, where a small group of Omnians and Earthers battle the Colony, a race of insectoids, which is subsuming planets.

To complicate matters, a rogue battleship fleet left the federacy, bypassed the human colonies, and is searching among the alliance worlds for a habitable planet. If an unoccupied world isn’t found, they’re prepared to evict the inhabitants by force.

In the wake of Alex’s exit from Omnia for alliance space, Hector is left in charge of the Omnians’ second fleet. The SADE temporarily carries the mantle of protector of human colonies and allied worlds.

For the Omnians, life and its challenges couldn’t be more precarious, or could they?

©2020 S. H. Jucha (P)2020 S. H. Jucha

The narrator makes ALL the difference...

Ok, to start - not the best book of the series. The narration leaves a lot to be desired. The current narrator may have experience with other books (children's, romance...who knows), but seems ill equipped to handle this book series. Grover Gardner, the previous 14 books narrator, gave these stories such richness and depth. Something sorely lacking in the current book. PLEASE BRING HIM BACK! As to the book itself,it seems to be a filler or bridge book to the next major release. It did not even live up to the title "SADEs", as it did not involve or elaborate on them any more than previous books. I hope the next release will be an improvement on both areas.

Excellent well written Story

Many reviewers have not liked the Narrator of this book. I agree, the change did bother me in the beginning. Luckily for me I read the reviews of this novel and chose to Listen to the 4 books in the prequel. I guess you would call it a prequel. So the changes in voices, style and cadence didn't bother me as much. What did bother me is the change in pronunciation of very key, words and names. To me that is unacceptable. It doesn't take very much time for the producers find out the correct pronunciation. Unless they did check with the author, and Mr. Gardner has pronounced the words and names wrong. If that is the case I say to late. Its been said wrong (our correct way) for more then 10 Novels. Don't change what we have already loved.

To bad...

A good book but they have changed the person reading the book. Why... it has been the same for the others and he was very good. That makes it hardly worth the money to buy it.

Political / social / alien mix up story

The story line conveys the political difficulties of living in an overpopulated universe with multiple life forms

Narrator was not for this story

The story was good yet, lacked it's usual punch. I believe because of the lack of proper energy from the narrator. Her voice and intonation was lackluster at best. I was disappointed in her.
Go back to Grover Gardner if possible.