The Makalang

The Complete Series, Books 5-8

By: Michael Dalton

Narrated by: Sierra Kline

Former Marine and lonely single dad Will Hawthorne just wants to clear his head with a weekend in the woods with his live-action roleplaying group.

But a careless misstep sends him tumbling through a cave into an alien world. There he finds a dying civilization of bizarre human-animal hybrids, filled with effete males and frustrated females who are soon pursuing him for their own ends.

For Will has stumbled into this world’s most powerful legend – a legend of the one who will come to reverse its decline – the legend of the Makalang.

©2023 Michael Dalton (P)2025 Michael Dalton

Worth the Wait!!

Sierra Kline knows her business, while she did not Voice the first 4 books i soon forgot about that as she took over the story telling and did a great job on books 5 -8

The story did not feel rushed or in a hurry to finish, if i could have asked for one thing it would have been a 10 year time jump for and afterward or final chapter, but it really is not needed, the 8 books end and while happily ever after is not really a thing we get pretty close.

overall i enjoyed the books and listen to many others from Michael Dalton. 2 thumbs up

Amazing!!!

A great work by a great writer! Enjoyed every minute of this book. Narrator does an amazing job and truly brings out each character.

Great story between all the books.

I really did like the struggle and the work that was put in to the storyline. I really enjoyed listening

A major oversight

This series was something I clicked on because I wanted something spicy to change my normal lit RPG pace. This story was thought out, detailed and had more depth than I expected. I did notice one major oversight in the story line though. The fact is that every single little thing on earth has human DNA, bananas, dogs, capybara, crows, elephants etc. literally everything has atleast some human DNA so by extension, no matter who or what the “proto makalaang” was, every single species on Taitala would still have human DNA even the boosangs and small animals.

Outstanding!!

This series was epic. It was great from book one til book eight. While listening to ( audiobook) I felt like I was there. I became a fly on the wall in Will Hawthorne’s home. The adventures were joyful. And the villains were despised. I look forward to re-reading this. I only wish for more content. But the ending concluded perfectly.