If you a lover of good or better SCIFI you need to get this series in the beginning a bit slow but when the action starts and it never stops. I am happy this series all together due to never had to wonder if the books would match from end to the beginning of another book and the transition was very smooth and as an listener you never felt lost. What would happen if an alien species you thought arrived and bomb cities with asteroids and send messages like unite and train and a count down clock to what you do not know. Then this same alien ships start protect the planet when other ships appear and start bombing cities. Now that sound confusing and it does as the story goes forward you start learning about the first alien species and then second alien species and why they are enemies. The how stupid mankind is and as they try to take over the first alien ship and start trying to demand, take over from an AI who is over 2500 years and impose their demands on the AI who tries to worn them and is ignored or used in ways that will caused a major war which mankind can not win. The author does an awesome job in telling the story with descriptions of the characters and with the ability to bring battles alive and make the listener feel the pain of death, abandonment, betrayal and love. I can say the author got the narrator he has to bring the above thoughts alive and has the ability to paint a perfect picture of the story, characters, ship and off world planets.