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    Ninth City Burning
    Audiobook21 hours

    Ninth City Burning

    Written by J. Patrick Black

    Narrated by Suzanne Elise Freeman, Lincoln Hoppe, Ryan Gesell and Full Cast

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    We never saw them coming. 

    Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed nothing could stop it--until we discovered we could wield the power too.

    Five hundred years later, the Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The talented few capable of bending thelemity to their will are trained in elite military academies, destined for the front lines. Those who refused to support the war have been exiled to the wilds of a ruined Earth.

    But the enemy's tactics are changing, and Earth's defenders are about to discover this centuries-old war has only just begun. As a terrible new onslaught looms, heroes will rise from unlikely quarters, and fight back.

    Cast of Narrators:
    Lincoln Hoppe as "Jax"
    Ryan Gesell as "Imway"
    Susan Hanfield as "Kizabel"
    Mike Chamberlain as "Vinneas"
    Ariadne Meyers as "Naomi"
    Suzanne Elise Freeman as "Rae"
    Johnathan McClain as "Torro"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9780735209275
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    Reviews for Ninth City Burning

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    • 3/5
      Overly long and far too tedious in its exposition. There are some interesting ideas here but it's all just a bit too much stuff thrown together.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this complex world and all the characters we got to meet. I loved how there were so many different kinds of communities and cultures and how each story wove into the narrative. I liked that all the characters had flaws and that even though they stepped up, they still felt like real people who were just trying to make it through.

      The world that was created was so cool. I really liked how the history was delivered and how we got to see the perspectives of different people and that was how we learned about the world. The science part was also really cool, but I did find some of the battles to be a little boring to read - just because there was a lot of detail.

      Overall, I really enjoyed this and think more people should read it!
    • 2/5
      The concept for this book sounds good and I am sure it is really good but I didn't really like it as much as I had hoped for. Yes, I could see some glimmer of greatness in what I read. I got to the half way mark and was still waiting for the action. Additionally, I found all of the different characters voices to project as one. There were just so many characters in the beginning to keep them straight. Than, their voices were blended as one. The reason that I kept reading was due to the world that the author built for this book. Instantly, I got a good visual of the world that all of the characters were fighting to survive in. I appreciated the effort the author gave to the details but after a while with a book like this you have to also find that happy middle of detail and moving the story along.
    • 4/5
      This book mingles science fiction with magic disguised as serious science. It is the good guys (the earthlings) at war with the conquering aliens. There are a lot of hard science explanations of the tech, but you can skim those and still enjoy. A lot of attention has been given to world-building and there are humorous Easter eggs to be discovered within. Some of the characters mess up the pop culture references. Cool. My thanks to the author and the Penguin First to Read program for a complimentary copy.
    • 2/5
      I read about 100 pages of this book and could not get interested in it at all. The story, as far as I read, was told from the point of view of several teenagers. There was a draft, reminiscent of Hunger Games and there was the selection of gifted children, reminiscent of Ender's Game. It didn't feel terribly original. I finally gave up. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.
    • 2/5
      Good ideas and imagination, but:
      Overall poor worldbuilding, far too much definition of new terms which continues even until the last 20% of the book, character jumps are rough and initially jarring, and resolution is very poor for characters and relational to the amount of buildup involved.

      Conceptual questions such as: who are the aggressors? and why are they fighting?, which define the entire conflict of the book, are never resolved.

      Minor characters are frequently introduced just to add tension, which is noticed but consistently ignored.
    • 4/5
      A well-written story set in a well-designed world. I appreciated how the author threw readers into the deep end with multiple different perspectives, never revealing the big picture until about a third of the way into the book. I also admired the use of literary style and devices to convey character — distinctive tone shifts as the first-person narration moves from viewpoint to viewpoint, with one delightful perspective even including footnotes that are 100% justified by character.

      One or two significant plot points seemed a bit strained and some of the viewpoint characters were less interesting than others, but these are minor quibbles for a highly enjoyable book!
    • 4/5
      Space opera (although only last part is in space), that starts on a future Earth in which is barely recognizable by us. We follow how the path of several characters will intersect: the nomad sisters, Jax the boy who trains to be a special type of soldier, Kizabel the rebel scientist, Vinneas the critical cadet and others. Their quest is to fight an unknown but very aggressive alien race and this makes a good adventure that goes from the wilderness to elaborate cities, to the space. Characters are well described and enjoyable. The story suffers from not presenting things clearly from the start, which means you never know if something does not make sense or it was not yet explained.
    • 4/5
      The aliens came on Valentine’s Day. They didn’t come in peace, they didn’t offer to share their advanced knowledge, they didn’t even ask us to surrender. They simply, methodically, and ruthlessly began to destroy the planet. 500 years later, and humanity has fought the alien race, known only as “Valentines” or “Romeos,” to a standstill. Our success came by harnessing their own technology, a blend of mechanics and something very like magic called thelemity. But when the nature of the battle begins to change, humanity must adapt with it, or face extinction.So one of the cover blurbs for this book called it a mix between Harry Potter and Starship Troopers, so naturally I had to read it. (Confession time: I’ve never actually read Heinlein’s book, though I have seen the 1997 movie starring Casper Van Dien and (sorry) enjoyed it. I’ve been told that this makes me a bad person. I have no argument against that)So anyway, the book was pretty freaking neat. Yes, most of the central characters are teenagers, but we’re dealing with issues like sex, random violence, dismemberment, planetary eradication, and military discipline, so this really isn’t a book for the young kiddos. Black’s world building is generally interesting, though I will confess to a few eye-roll worthy moments early on. Fortunately, if you make it through the more goofy stuff in the beginning (I’m looking at you, N’workies), then the book really comes into its own. I especially liked the concept of thelemity, which seems like something you’d find in the Warhammer 40k universe. The futuristic-yet-strangely-arcane technology was consistently interesting and well used (and also well explained).The book is told from the point of view of several different characters, and Black does a great job of giving each their own voice (though some are more aggravating than others, especially early on). I also found it interesting that this brutal tale of war and loss was told exclusively through the eyes of children. Each of these kids has grown up in a state of perpetual war (ahem, sound familiar?), and so the sacrifices and the brutality that go along with such a state are taken, if not in stride, then as the way things have always been. I’m not sure if I enjoy this point of view or if I find it disturbing (probably a bit of both).So, if you like your sci-fi dark, and your battles with giant space monsters bloody, if you need more lasers, huge guns, and combat exoskeletons in your life, then this may be the book for you.A copy of this book was provided by the publisher via Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review.