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Armada Wars #3
The Ravening Deep
Panic grips the Many Worlds.
Across the Empire, dozens of colonies have already stopped responding. Mighty dreadships are sighted with alarming frequency, and chilling reports trickle back from the outer star systems every single day. The Falling has been visited upon many planets already, the rumours say. The Falling cannot be stopped.
Even while struggling to understand the enemy's tactics and objectives, operative Elm Caden will do anything he can to protect Earth's territories. But it may already be too late. For across the Many Worlds brews an unconscious, contagious fear: something horrific watches from the Deep Shadows, and it is about to make its presence felt.
Still reeling from a personal and professional loss, Caden is one of a mere handful of people who truly grasp the threat posed to humanity. Now, with his remaining allies pulling in different directions and his resources stretched to their limits, he must discover the true nature and intentions of the mysterious enemy known as Voice. If he should fail, there can be only one outcome:
Worlds Will Fall.
After the unexpected and heart-wrenching climax of List of the Dead, this third volume in R. Curtis Venture's breakout series has a lot to live up to. In this episode perspectives are shifted, secrets revealed, and characters challenged, in the same emotionally vivid fashion that has defined this uniquely engaging series since the beginning.
Across the Empire, dozens of colonies have already stopped responding. Mighty dreadships are sighted with alarming frequency, and chilling reports trickle back from the outer star systems every single day. The Falling has been visited upon many planets already, the rumours say. The Falling cannot be stopped.
Even while struggling to understand the enemy's tactics and objectives, operative Elm Caden will do anything he can to protect Earth's territories. But it may already be too late. For across the Many Worlds brews an unconscious, contagious fear: something horrific watches from the Deep Shadows, and it is about to make its presence felt.
Still reeling from a personal and professional loss, Caden is one of a mere handful of people who truly grasp the threat posed to humanity. Now, with his remaining allies pulling in different directions and his resources stretched to their limits, he must discover the true nature and intentions of the mysterious enemy known as Voice. If he should fail, there can be only one outcome:
Worlds Will Fall.
After the unexpected and heart-wrenching climax of List of the Dead, this third volume in R. Curtis Venture's breakout series has a lot to live up to. In this episode perspectives are shifted, secrets revealed, and characters challenged, in the same emotionally vivid fashion that has defined this uniquely engaging series since the beginning.
- GenresMilitary Science Fiction
453 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 27, 2015
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About the author
R. Curtis Venture
15 books13 followersR. Curtis Venture was born in the United Kingdom in the late Seventies. His first great passion was for science fiction, both in books and on the screen, and he spent his childhood years imagining other worlds. A graduate of Applied Biology, he is — through an unlikely but plausible series of circumstances — now employed full-time in the legal sector.
When not consumed in a creative binge, his free time is mostly spent hiking up mountains or through forests, camping in the wilderness, reading widely, or working towards the current goal of 2,000 films watched.
When not consumed in a creative binge, his free time is mostly spent hiking up mountains or through forests, camping in the wilderness, reading widely, or working towards the current goal of 2,000 films watched.
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January 13, 2016
The second instalment was so good, I just wanted to read The Ravening Deep there and then to get my questions answered. Now I have read it I have decided the author has a mischievous way to drip feed the answers whilst creating 10 other things I am now hankering to know about. It's a real plus about all of the books to date, they keep me interested, they keep me turning pages when I should have gone to bed hours ago...oh well it's only work this is far more interesting. If you want a fast paced military sci-fi with action, humour, and intrigue get these books on your list.
May 13, 2017
This is a great science fiction series. I love the new syfy writers that are making sure to show their readers just how truly huuuuuuuuge space is by bringing in all of the concepts of time and distance. Venture is another one. The way he drops mention of distant empires spanning hundreds or thousands of planets that are separated by the human controlled sphere of influence by yet other empires spanning hundreds or thousands of planets helps put things in scale.
Venture's space battles are done well and that's something that is also changing I think in the last ten or twenty years as writers and readers both have become more sophisticated and have a greater understanding of physics and science.
This is world building done right. One thing that I would like to have more of as the series unfolds is a little backstory on humanity. I have some questions like, "how far in the future is this" and "how exactly did humanity end up under an Empress and being an Empire as the unifying form of government." It would be nice to get some more of that info trickled out.
If you thought this was a trilogy, you weren't alone, but you are wrong just like I was. This is clearly designed to be a longer running series because this book didn't give us much of any closure. I look forward to finding the next in the series and reading more from Venture.
Venture's space battles are done well and that's something that is also changing I think in the last ten or twenty years as writers and readers both have become more sophisticated and have a greater understanding of physics and science.
This is world building done right. One thing that I would like to have more of as the series unfolds is a little backstory on humanity. I have some questions like, "how far in the future is this" and "how exactly did humanity end up under an Empress and being an Empire as the unifying form of government." It would be nice to get some more of that info trickled out.
If you thought this was a trilogy, you weren't alone, but you are wrong just like I was. This is clearly designed to be a longer running series because this book didn't give us much of any closure. I look forward to finding the next in the series and reading more from Venture.
November 27, 2015
An amazing follow up on an already brilliant series. Wow some very epic moments in this book. Get a deep look at some of our favourite characters. Cant recommend this book and series as a whole enough.
February 11, 2021
These books are getting better and better with each read, there's nothing more I could ask of this series.
It's engaging in it's characters, plot, and dialogue.
The space battles are some of the most brilliance I've seen put to paper, we've gotten to know some of the ships and their captains (and Admiral for the Dreadnought) and so as we see them engage in naval battles we are, well I was anyway, heavily emotionally invested in their struggles as well as captivated by the beauty of watching space combat. They also felt very realistic, I could tell that the author had done his research and I even asked him to double check, he has.
It was like a dance. A deadly, terrifying dance.
The mysteries are starting to come undone but only a little bit, the protagonist and us are left to piece it all together one tiny jigzaw piece at a time.
I must say it again: this series deserves more recognition than it's currently getting!
It's engaging in it's characters, plot, and dialogue.
The space battles are some of the most brilliance I've seen put to paper, we've gotten to know some of the ships and their captains (and Admiral for the Dreadnought) and so as we see them engage in naval battles we are, well I was anyway, heavily emotionally invested in their struggles as well as captivated by the beauty of watching space combat. They also felt very realistic, I could tell that the author had done his research and I even asked him to double check, he has.
It was like a dance. A deadly, terrifying dance.
The mysteries are starting to come undone but only a little bit, the protagonist and us are left to piece it all together one tiny jigzaw piece at a time.
I must say it again: this series deserves more recognition than it's currently getting!
January 12, 2018
I read books 2 and 3 back to back and the story flowed naturally between them. Once in a while the story is put on pause as we get a flashback chapter to one of the main characters' background. These are really well done (normally that kind of thing bugs me) and it I started looking forward to the next one.
We get a lot more insight into the antagonist in this book too. Not too much that it spoils the mystery, but enough that it's beginning to become a bit clearer. Being the third book, it's all looking pretty dire for our heroes. The enemy seems too powerful and humanity is on the back foot. The seeds of a counterattack are being sown in this book, however, and the author has organically planted them so that it feels natural.
We get a lot more insight into the antagonist in this book too. Not too much that it spoils the mystery, but enough that it's beginning to become a bit clearer. Being the third book, it's all looking pretty dire for our heroes. The enemy seems too powerful and humanity is on the back foot. The seeds of a counterattack are being sown in this book, however, and the author has organically planted them so that it feels natural.
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