Scion of Conquered Earth: A Science Fiction Space Opera Adventure

By: Michael J. Allen

Narrated by: A W Dickson

Alien fighters bombard Earth's ruins. Cannibalistic aerobics instructors hunt the wastes. The last free survivors struggle against starvation and enslavement. It's become a world where friendship costs too dearly and heroics verge on suicide.

One young man can't resist either until a fed-up AI steals him off the planet. Alone with only a sarcastic, broken-down starship, he braves a whole new verse full of strange new enemies and tech he barely understands.

Help and harm beset him from identical faces, forcing Earth's last free scion to decide who he is, what he holds dear and just how far he'll go to protect both. The right choices could save Earth. The wrong ones could cost galaxies...

©2016 Michael J. Allen (P)2018 Delirious Scribbles Ink

I NEED MORE.... GREAT START TO A SERIES.

I lover it. Great book. It has action romance well hell a bit of everything.

Great listen

I enjoyed this. the slight humor at the start completely took me by surprise when it got darker and such, I wish there was a second part

really liked this one a lot

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

This was a great sci fi story full of action and a good dose of snark. The story was written/narrated well and made for a very entertaining listen. Definitely hope this is a series!

Scifi

This is post apocalyptic mixed with scifi. This book is very violent and I would not recommend you listening/reading to it whilst eating. It will make you sick.
However, it is fast paced and a lot happens. I feel like there are two parts to this book. The first part happens on earth and then after a while the second part happens in space. This surprised me because I was not expecting it and what happens there.
The author really knows how to write because he keeps you listening until the end, even though you want to slap the main character at times but the AI does that for you (vervally). Which I really liked.
As I mentioned there is graphic violence but some moderate sexual content. The main character acts at times like a hormonal teenager and there are some innuendos and there is two senes in a brothel.

Takes long before story reaches space

I settled in for a space opera, but the first 8(!) hours take place on a dystopian earth. MC is a teenager who has lost his memory and needs to survive. There's a lot of explicit psychological torture and duress. I guess the author wanted to give the MC a fleshed-out background and a reason why he's so adamant about freeing slaves and why he wants to eventually return to earth, but 8 hours felt like a long time only to accomplish that.
Finally MC reaches space so I again settled in for the 'opera' part. But found it not. Teenager now suddenly and inexplicably has lost his helplessness and knows how to lead interplanetary trade missions, and how to strategize together with an alien AI.

I really missed a character development arc here, a quest, a struggle of growth. At least some awe and surprise that the universe is filled with many peoples and alien races. Plot however is not character-driven, which leaves the story itself. The time in space is filled with either (rather boring) trades, some flight lessons and some minor action scenes that to me could have been more suspenseful. To me, the MC was the male equivalent of a Mary Sue character.

The novel ends on a cliffhanger; however, at the end there are some bonus minutes of the second book in this series so you get a taste of where the story goes right after that cliffhanger, which I think is a good idea for people who tend to get frustrated by cliffhangers ;-) and will help listeners decide whether or not to buy the next book in the series.

Narration was good; here and there it was difficult to discriminate between different characters.

All in all I think this might be more suitable for teenagers of about 15 years - same age range as the MC. Hence the 3 stars overall.

~ I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. I was not required to write a positive review and this reflects my honest opinion of the work.