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Empire Reborn (Blood on the Stars, 18) Audio CD – Unabridged, October 25, 2022

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Book 18 of 18: Blood on the Stars

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The final book in the Blood on the Stars series...

The human powers have been pushed to the brink, battered, and almost destroyed. The virus they have invented and deployed, their sole possibility for victory, seems to be too little, too late. Its usage has only spurred the enemy to quicker action, to finish the war before they have to deal with its effects.

But the humans do not know that the Highborn are faced on another front, by a race they know little about but have battled for two centuries. The Highborn have decided to try to end that war, too, to lash out with all of their forces to eradicate the enemy, and to impose peace onto the galaxy...the peace of their own, undisputed rule.

As the Highborn begin to lash out on both fronts, to complete the victory they believe is theirs, both of their foes dig in, bringing forward everything they can, fighting with all both sides have to defeat the Highborn, to secure freedom in the galaxy. There is titanic warfare all around space, massive fleets fighting desperately...but only one side can prevail and rule space for the next 10,000 years.

This is the titanic conclusion to the 18-book Blood on the Stars series. If you haven't explored any of it, start with book one, Duel in the Dark.

For those who have listened to the entire series, I hope you enjoy this one, and I am working on my new series now, which will be released in a few months.

Blood on the Stars:

Duel in the Dark
Call to Arms
Ruins of Empire
Echoes of Glory
Cauldron of Fire
Dauntless
The White Fleet
Black Dawn
Invasion
Nightfall
The Grand Alliance
The Colossus
The Others
The Last Stand
Empire's Ashes
Attack Plan Alpha
Descent into Darkness
Empire Reborn

The Andromeda Chronicles (A Blood on the Stars Trilogy):

Andromeda Rising
Wings of Pegasus
Into the Badlands

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He currently lives in New York City and has been reading science fiction and fantasy for just about as long as he has been reading. My tastes are fairly varied and eclectic, but his favorites are military and dystopian science fiction and epic fantasy, usually a little bit gritty.

He write a lot of science fiction with military themes, but also other SF and some fantasy as well. He likes complex characters and lots of backstory and action. He thinks world-building is the heart of science fiction and fantasy, and since that is what he has always been drawn to as a reader, that is what he writes.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BCRTLX1R
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (October 25, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8400110979
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.4 x 6.7 inches

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I’m a lifetime Northeasterner, and I currently live in New York City, where I write from my apartment…and continue to fill small notebooks with ideas for future books. I've been reading science fiction and fantasy for just about as long as I've been reading, so, of course, when I started to write, that’s where I ended up. It’s been a great ride so far!

My tastes as a reader are fairly varied and eclectic, but I'd say my favorites are military and dystopian science fiction, space opera, alternate history, and epic fantasy, usually a little bit gritty. I also read a lot of non-fiction, mostly history. I write a lot of science fiction with military themes, but also other SF and some fantasy as well. I like complex characters and lots of backstory and action. Honestly, I think world-building is the heart of science fiction and fantasy, and since that is what I've always been drawn to as a reader, that is what I write.

Among other things, I write the bestselling Crimson Worlds series and the Far Stars series published by Harper Voyager.

I've been an investor and real estate developer for a long time (mostly retired from it now), a fiction author more recently. When I'm not writing, I enjoy traveling, running, hiking, reading. I love hearing from readers and always answer emails. I think you stop growing as a writer if you stop listening to those who read your books.

Join my mailing list at http://www.jayallanbooks.com, for updates on new releases (and some free and discounted books), and follow me on Twitter @jayallanwrites for an occasional look at work in progress and thoughts on the genre in general. Or you can email me at jay@jayallanbooks.com. I try to answer every email.

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Final destiny

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2022

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It has been a long road but we have reached the end. I can say I have enjoyed this series. However I do not agree with this ending. The author stated that the first empire fell due to immobility and no conflict. To just go right back to the same solution as before I think would not be a good idea. There is also the problem of having the deus ex machina people save the day. I just wished that they had been truly alien and not just human experiments. I also don't think its a good idea to leave a military in charge of government. We have seen this in real life history and it doesn't go well. Overall this series has been a great journey and I hope others might love it as I have.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2022

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This is a pretty good series. It's kind of a space opera, multiple story lines, some of which are scifi and better than others. Some story lines are just human interactions with little or no scifi involved. Characters are good. One caution though, although it is 18 books long, much of it, maybe half is just "filler". It's just repetition after repetition of entire portions previously covered in depth many, many times. But these are pretty easy to skip through until you get to something relevant again. Done in 9 books it would have been much better.

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end of the series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 1, 2022

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Listened to all seventeen books and enjoyed them. There was no narration on this last one which was disappointing. Jeffery kafer is my favorite male narrator. Seemed odd to have him all the way till the last.
There was a lot of repetition in the wording of this book. It seemed the. Author was trying to lengthen the book without content and replace that with paragraphs that were said several times already. It makes the reader feel like, I know that already just move on with story. That became annoying.

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love the series but this book is tough

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 26, 2023

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The Blood on the Stars series as a whole is great - let's start with that. "Empire Reborn" - the final book in the series - is, however, a tedious book to make it through. Not because it's poorly written (although there are a few editing mistakes) but because certain themes are repeated ad nauseum.

- enemy not sure whether to report something: 8 times
- enemy sure of their superiority then not: 6 times
- mysterious race rethinking their previous decision: 14 times
- protagonists not sure secret weapon will work: dozens of times

The same expositions repeated over and over, sometimes nearly word for word in sequential chapters was irritating to no end. It's like he had a deadline to meet and only 2/3 of the words he needed so he just kept re-inserting the same themes again and again (hey, ChatGPT - rewrite this paragraph for me a dozen times).

Don't get me wrong, the series is well worth the read but this finale would have been a better ending of it had excised about 25% of the text.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2022

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Once again Jay Allen delivers a great story. One that I couldn’t put down. It is pass midnight, but I read the story and could not rest until I finished it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2022

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It's so hard to believe we are at book 18! Not too many series have the plots to go thst far and keep your interest.

Tyler, Andy, Atara, Jake, Reg and their friends are still fighting the Highborn and while they are making them pay in blood for every battle they lose they are taking on 35-1 odds it's not an attrition rate they can keep up.

In the previous book they found the virus they hoped would take the Highborn down but they don't know if its working. Even if it does will it be fast enough? We also meet Achilles. I don't remember him from the other books but I could have forgotten him, he brings more interest into the mix.

The only thing I didn't like in the book was a lot of things were repeated sometimes several times as to previous events or thoughts. So much so that I actually wondered if I had hit back in the book by mistake. All in all it is a satisfactory end to a great series.

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A labored reading, with much skipping of pages

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2022

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While this volume brings the 18-book series to a final if somewhat deus de machina conclusion, wading through was a slog. Much of the book is inner-monolog expostulation, but very repetitively so. The characters just go thinking the same thoughts again and again. Clearly, they all have some sort of mental problem, as none -- not even the Ancients -- have the power of logical strategic thought.

We see manifest here logic like "Our ships are much faster than theirs and have a longer weapons range, so we shall advance quickly to point-blank range before engaging in an almost stationary brawl."

The author also fails to express a basic understanding of physics, with fighter pilots "shaking their hands back and forth on a joystick" in an attempt to evade much faster missiles approaching them from 500,000 kilometers (and several minutes of missile flight time) away. That kind of "dodging" would results in changes so small that the vector change probably wouldn't even be visible to a tracker, much less significant. But it might manage to waste a significant amount of fuel. And we're not talking about this playing out once or twice, but tens of sequential pages filled with throttle-twitching rambling thoughts pouring out of sweat-soaked pilots operating their vessels at 120%... Speaking of which, I can't think of a single instance where any order was given to operate any piece of equipment at least than 105%. That's just annoying.

The character development, much better in earlier books of the series, is here stilted, one-dimensional, and deeply unsatisfying.

Perhaps the author merely lacked a muse and just desperately ground out the word count required to satisfy a contract, and if so I feel sorry for him. However, the bulk of my sympathy is with the readers, as they're the ones still suffering from the result. Perhaps a rewrite is in order; are not loyal readers owed a satisfying and well-crafted finale?

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Too long

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2023

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I truly loved the series but the last 3 books Jay Allan just got a little bit wordy. This dragged the story line down a bit. Otherwise a very good series.

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Oveews

It's an ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 22, 2022

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Been very much looking forward to this coming out, Jay's had a lot of stuff on his plate which resulted in the delay of this book until now ... and think it's suffered for that and the various rewrites it's had.

The previous BotS books have managed a decent pace to them, usually building up to a finale with a touch of motivation, belief, crazy idea, fighter pilots doing the unbelievably crazy stuff. This book in particular needed to spend time in the characters heads trying to understand all that, but that balance was off in this one. Without spoilers, there's one character who says they regret not being assertive enough sooner in one chapter, only for near-enough the same words to be repeated by the same character two chapters later, and so on until the final chapter where he says the same thing out loud to another main character. That sadly applies across a few other characters too and spoils the flow of an otherwise excellent idea.

It's an ending, possibly not the finest, but it's an ending at least.

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r.g.lloyd

A rather unsatisfying end.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 26, 2022

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Sadly the last few books in the series have been declining in quality which is unfortunate as I have really enjoyed the majority of the series but this was one of the worst. I don't like to write bad reviews but sadly this book has very little going for it, almost all minor characters from earlier books are forgotten with the small group of main characters repeating there own inner monologue over and over and over again. And this is not an exaggeration only about 25% of the book is actual story with the rest constant repetition. The detailed battles have devolved to characters shouting charge weapons/engines to 110%! This book was a chore to read and the hero's by the end of this book don't feel remotely heroic or inspiring and are little better than the corrupt politicians they reiled against in the earlier books.
This is the last book I will be reading by this author if his future releases follow this trend.

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All Good Things

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 9, 2022

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An endless battle for survival has almost brought the Confederation to its knees, joined by former enemies the Alliance technology has leapt forwards but never decisively, the battle remains focused within the hearts of the men and women who refuse to give up in defence of the people and worlds who cherish freedom. There comes to a time though when the fleets have been battered and options removed, this is that time as the powerful Highborn armada readies to meet the remnants of the Alliance but even with little or no hope the Battleships, Fighters, Cruisers of the Alliance and all the souls aboard face down the invaders.
Well it's been a long road as they say with the 18th and final novel released and now read, I can't say the series didn't need wrapping up but Jay managed to pull a rabbit out the hat so to speak, in hindsight it makes perfect sense with a little perspective massaging but the conclusion to this series was mostly satisfying. There really is little point in recommending this novel in a standalone context but if you are looking for a long running series in the military scifi genre then here you go, a completed narrative with spin offs that is both entertaining and creative in showing us a humanity living far in the future but one we can still recognise and relate too.

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ceejaysteady

oh dear

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 11, 2022

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The single star is for this book alone - since it contained so much “structured” repetition that I was able to take my speed reading to a new height. As a whole BoS could have been half as long and stood a very good chance of retaining the freshness and pace of the first 3 books in the series. I don’t envy Jay Allan’s task of bringing this to a conclusion but it should have happened much sooner. I am extremely glad that I got over two thirds of the series with Kindle Unlimited.

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Graham

Far too much internal monologue

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 5, 2022

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Like the heading says. Pretty much 3/4 of the book is filled with the main characters thought processes and self reflection, going over and over info we already know. I'm left feeling it was a disappointing end to a great series but to be honest, after the end of the other series and the "surprise" cross over I wasn't expecting much. I understand that, after 18 books, getting to a satisfying conclusion for all readers is not going to happen.

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