The Vixen War Bride

The Vixen War Bride Series, Book 1

By: Thomas Doscher

Narrated by: Daniel Wisniewski

With the destruction of their home colony, Captain Ben Gibson and his Army Rangers have nowhere else to go. Six months after humanity’s victory in Earth’s first ever interstellar war, a group of soldiers are tasked with running a convoy refueling base in a rural part of the occupied enemy world. When they arrive, they find the local village has been abandoned in anticipation of their arrival by the panicked residents. Fearing a possible humanitarian crisis, the troops have to go into the alien wilderness to find them, reassure them that the humans are not the savages they’ve been taught they are and bring them back. And it won’t be easy. They will have to overcome language barriers, a fearful and hostile population, cross-cultural miscommunications, almost no support from the Army, and their own demons to succeed. With no idea where to start, it looks nearly impossible until the sudden arrival of a dirty, disheveled priestess who confesses to a host of war crimes and demands she be executed for them.

©2021 Thomas J Doscher (P)2024 Thomas J Doscher

good start

Can't wait for the next one. feels like we were just really getting started when it ended.

Well written War/Romance

This is a story that hooks you early. The universe is well built and the characters are full of life.

really good

really good book. this was a fun story that focuses on the cultural misunderstandings. really enjoyed this story

Great read

I have read the full series before and loved it. this audio book brings it to life all over again and I can't wait for the next one.

Finally on Audible!

This review is for the entire series not just book 1 and book 2 currently out. I have read the full series and can say confidently the writing, story and characters are solid and enjoyable. The lore of this future earth and fox alien war, along side the back ground world building is great and gives the story the extra depth that makes it just that much better. Why only 4 stars overall? You may ask yourself reading this. That is for some small flaws I'm not a big fan of. The biggest issue was inconsistent audio volume from the narrator. His voice acting and emotions are on point and amazing, yet the valley and peak between regular talking and parts that are said loud and with passion had me constantly adjusting my volume just to get my ear drums blown out when he got loud. The second ding is a personal sci-fi complaint. The Va'shen just aren't alien enough, they draw one to many parallels to humans and human culture and it kills my suspension of disbelief. The look like humans with fox ears and tails, okay fine. I could live with that if their culture was a straight rip off and mixing of East Asian culture. If they looked like bipedal fox people I could accept the culture rip off. Or if they looked like people with fox ears and tails but had such an extremely different culture they were very very alien and there was little parallels you could draw to one sub content or group of people, I could accept that. But both of those together kill it for me, okay rant over. Go buy the books and enjoy them. This is an awesome and interesting series, book 5 gets dark and a bit too real on how the military covers up misconduct if you are a high enough rank.