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The Betrayed
Who Knew the Truth?
As Chhun and his fellow Legion Adjudicators work to uncover the buried secrets of the time called the Troubles, the rest of the galaxy isn’t just standing still. Organizations both inside and out of the Republic make moves to prepare for their own futures. Planets build their own independent defense forces. Power brokers and criminal cartels arise with personal armadas. The Repub Navy seeks to prove itself just as capable even without the Legion. Piracy blooms.
For the Adjudicator and his team, the job only gets harder. Each snatch, grab, and interrogation grows more dangerous.
As stress and casualties mount, Hunter Team Ranger begins to splinter from within. Their pace is relentless, their mission seemingly unending…
… and now Chhun and his legionnaires are inserted on a hidden planet that is home to one of the Republic’s darkest secrets.
Join Chhun and Hunter Team Ranger in their mission to run the blasters, clear the corners, and keep the Republic from descending into chaos.
The galaxy is a dumpster fire, and the flames are out of control!
As Chhun and his fellow Legion Adjudicators work to uncover the buried secrets of the time called the Troubles, the rest of the galaxy isn’t just standing still. Organizations both inside and out of the Republic make moves to prepare for their own futures. Planets build their own independent defense forces. Power brokers and criminal cartels arise with personal armadas. The Repub Navy seeks to prove itself just as capable even without the Legion. Piracy blooms.
For the Adjudicator and his team, the job only gets harder. Each snatch, grab, and interrogation grows more dangerous.
As stress and casualties mount, Hunter Team Ranger begins to splinter from within. Their pace is relentless, their mission seemingly unending…
… and now Chhun and his legionnaires are inserted on a hidden planet that is home to one of the Republic’s darkest secrets.
Join Chhun and Hunter Team Ranger in their mission to run the blasters, clear the corners, and keep the Republic from descending into chaos.
The galaxy is a dumpster fire, and the flames are out of control!
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329 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 25, 2024
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Jason Anspach
187 books840 followersJASON ANSPACH is the author of Galaxy's Edge, Wayward Galaxy, Forgotten Ruin. and more.
He lives in Puyallup, WA with his wife and their seven (not a typo) children.
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November 9, 2024
Disjointed, Frenetic and Spastic
“The Betrayed (Galaxy’s Edge Book 24)” is a disjointed, frenetic, and spastic mishmash of backstories wrapped in ‘Flashbacks’ that contain other ‘Flashbacks’ that do little except add to page count to attain the authors’ business model goals. Suboptimal.
“The Betrayed (Galaxy’s Edge Book 24)” is a disjointed, frenetic, and spastic mishmash of backstories wrapped in ‘Flashbacks’ that contain other ‘Flashbacks’ that do little except add to page count to attain the authors’ business model goals. Suboptimal.
March 21, 2025
This is my favorite SciFi series along with several other spinoffs or different series from authors.
However, I really think that the volume of produced material is taking over for quality. I couldn't wait for the next book to come after I caught up to the current pace (had to wait for new books) after the OG story was done. (Death of Goth Sollace and article 19 etc. I am pretty sure this was the planned ending and just threw a few continuation opportunities at the end. I do think that the second part also was planned pretty good, even if I did miss some solution/explanation/more info regarding Kill team ICE. I hoped for a trilogy ala Savage wars or similar regarding them.
But WTF is this stuff. I did like the first book in the series, about how Ford became Wraith. I really hoped that this was going to continue but boy was I wrong.
This book is short. That is a fact. However plot wise it is ridiculous. I think you could make the plot continuum in a few short chapters. Instead half of the book (more) is random people in battle. Noone we know or probably will get to know. Anyway a big part of this was about 2 people that had a disagreement and how this was solved. But we did get both their backgrounds which was not bad (but heard it before... Especially one of them seems like a regular legionnaire .)
But the plot? Maybe Chun talking to another adjudicator, was suspicious, but didn't do anything (that we know), and an old "friend" pop up again in new "colors" (maybe fake version as suddenly the cybars has become a problem again, which I am pretty sure was used to be solved (not remembering the explanation for Praxus and Andrine (she was one aswell if remember right, and I am pretty sure the other cybar was supposed to be gone). I am not sure if Chun starting to get Alzheimer's but I have no idea why he didn't think of the cybars as soon he saw the city. Everyone else that reading will.
Anyway. 8 hr with senseless filler and 30min plot. And most of the filler is first some random operation where there is alot of fighting and the problem between the 2 leg, which was not solved in anyway. Wtf.. Then shooting robots for 2? 4? Hrs with some backlash I can't be bothered to care about as it is so un interesting...
I think I will stop buying this series and use Tokybook for coming stuff (if it is there. First season is, but maybe not more.) If so I give it next book and will return it if stuff not improving.
(Like the last 2 books in Tyrus Rechs contract series, seems to be 1 story in 3 short books which I almost would call short stories. As said, it seems the number of books being published is the goal of everything. .)
Maybe if mindless fighting with no plot is your choice, you might like it. Or are big fanboys..
However, I really think that the volume of produced material is taking over for quality. I couldn't wait for the next book to come after I caught up to the current pace (had to wait for new books) after the OG story was done. (Death of Goth Sollace and article 19 etc. I am pretty sure this was the planned ending and just threw a few continuation opportunities at the end. I do think that the second part also was planned pretty good, even if I did miss some solution/explanation/more info regarding Kill team ICE. I hoped for a trilogy ala Savage wars or similar regarding them.
But WTF is this stuff. I did like the first book in the series, about how Ford became Wraith. I really hoped that this was going to continue but boy was I wrong.
This book is short. That is a fact. However plot wise it is ridiculous. I think you could make the plot continuum in a few short chapters. Instead half of the book (more) is random people in battle. Noone we know or probably will get to know. Anyway a big part of this was about 2 people that had a disagreement and how this was solved. But we did get both their backgrounds which was not bad (but heard it before... Especially one of them seems like a regular legionnaire .)
But the plot? Maybe Chun talking to another adjudicator, was suspicious, but didn't do anything (that we know), and an old "friend" pop up again in new "colors" (maybe fake version as suddenly the cybars has become a problem again, which I am pretty sure was used to be solved (not remembering the explanation for Praxus and Andrine (she was one aswell if remember right, and I am pretty sure the other cybar was supposed to be gone). I am not sure if Chun starting to get Alzheimer's but I have no idea why he didn't think of the cybars as soon he saw the city. Everyone else that reading will.
Anyway. 8 hr with senseless filler and 30min plot. And most of the filler is first some random operation where there is alot of fighting and the problem between the 2 leg, which was not solved in anyway. Wtf.. Then shooting robots for 2? 4? Hrs with some backlash I can't be bothered to care about as it is so un interesting...
I think I will stop buying this series and use Tokybook for coming stuff (if it is there. First season is, but maybe not more.) If so I give it next book and will return it if stuff not improving.
(Like the last 2 books in Tyrus Rechs contract series, seems to be 1 story in 3 short books which I almost would call short stories. As said, it seems the number of books being published is the goal of everything. .)
Maybe if mindless fighting with no plot is your choice, you might like it. Or are big fanboys..
December 29, 2024
What's left to be said? The action is still good but the writing/structure can be frustrating. Flashbacks within flashbacks, repetition of pointless details in back to back paragraphs.
August 8, 2025
What even was this book? It was 10 chapters in before we even met current characters. At least I think they were current, the Inception-level flashbacks within flashbacks made it incredibly confusing to follow what was happening. Who was the lead protagonist? Was it McCoy? Death Machine? Dent? Slade?!?
Who knows.
There are only so many military acronyms you can string together before you need a plot. This didn’t feel like a book so much as a raid on the author’s hard drive, a smash and grab for any documents labeled “Betrayed”, slamming them together, and calling the resulting gestalt a book.
Like “Expeditionary Force”, this feels like a once great series that’s overstayed its welcome.
Who knows.
There are only so many military acronyms you can string together before you need a plot. This didn’t feel like a book so much as a raid on the author’s hard drive, a smash and grab for any documents labeled “Betrayed”, slamming them together, and calling the resulting gestalt a book.
Like “Expeditionary Force”, this feels like a once great series that’s overstayed its welcome.
October 31, 2024
A little too much to handle in a read, and also not enough
There’s the story - then there’s the setup, backstory, context, character development - then the story continues in short spurts before doing it all again. It really messed with my linear understanding of the story itself.
There are some ultra cool action scenes and battles, but not a lot of explanation until the reveal at the end. It was good! But not amazing.
As a huge fan and reader of every single book by these authors, I definitely recommend this next chapter. You’ll realize though that it’s a setup and filler book that is moving us to a bigger picture.
There’s the story - then there’s the setup, backstory, context, character development - then the story continues in short spurts before doing it all again. It really messed with my linear understanding of the story itself.
There are some ultra cool action scenes and battles, but not a lot of explanation until the reveal at the end. It was good! But not amazing.
As a huge fan and reader of every single book by these authors, I definitely recommend this next chapter. You’ll realize though that it’s a setup and filler book that is moving us to a bigger picture.
December 2, 2025
Now this is what you call a rollicking action book, from the get-go.
I was hesitant to continue the GE series - I wasn't too happy about the previous main series ended, nor about the time-jump, or about the whole nabbing targets for info about the Troubles. Just didn't get my attention too much.
This one, however, goes back to what made the series incredible. It's an action-fest, with enough intrigue and questions of both past and present. Great to see Chunn around again and in the mix. Something else is clearly brewing, perhaps something even he didn't foresee. There's plenty of brutal fights and heroic acts of valor.
Looking forward to book 25.
I was hesitant to continue the GE series - I wasn't too happy about the previous main series ended, nor about the time-jump, or about the whole nabbing targets for info about the Troubles. Just didn't get my attention too much.
This one, however, goes back to what made the series incredible. It's an action-fest, with enough intrigue and questions of both past and present. Great to see Chunn around again and in the mix. Something else is clearly brewing, perhaps something even he didn't foresee. There's plenty of brutal fights and heroic acts of valor.
Looking forward to book 25.
November 1, 2024
All action, little choppy writing.
Overall and excellent addition to the series. Writing is a little choppy here and there. Like it was meant to be a dime store pulp novel or extended article in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine with chopped sentences and a myriad of military jargon thrown in here and there. Still a good book, but short.
Overall and excellent addition to the series. Writing is a little choppy here and there. Like it was meant to be a dime store pulp novel or extended article in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine with chopped sentences and a myriad of military jargon thrown in here and there. Still a good book, but short.
April 4, 2025
Betrayed (Galaxy Edge, Book 24)
Another great action off-world book with a solid group of characters by two of my favorite writers, Jason Anspach and Nick Cole. Couple their writing with the masterful performance by Mark Boyett, and you have a reading and listening adventure second to none. -Mr.Bill
Another great action off-world book with a solid group of characters by two of my favorite writers, Jason Anspach and Nick Cole. Couple their writing with the masterful performance by Mark Boyett, and you have a reading and listening adventure second to none. -Mr.Bill
December 21, 2024
Back at it! This season brings us a fresh collection of new tales and characters while the anchoring presence of Chhun provides readers with a link to the past. Lots of action and lots of questions remain after reading this gem. Can’t wait for the next book.
Keep ‘em comin’!
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Keep ‘em comin’!
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November 6, 2024
Excellent read. I enjoyed it immensely
November 20, 2024
A New Twist in the Story
Looking forward to the next book in the series to see how things develop. I like that some of the old key characters will continue on.
Looking forward to the next book in the series to see how things develop. I like that some of the old key characters will continue on.
December 14, 2024
Generally well written, having a character call another character “gay” to make fun of him was unnecessary dog whistle after dozens of books.
April 12, 2025
WOW!!
I have no idea what is going to happen next. That was an insane ride start to finish with a ton of ass kicking! I loved it.
I have no idea what is going to happen next. That was an insane ride start to finish with a ton of ass kicking! I loved it.
May 31, 2025
Pretty good deep dive into the new characters for this season. Good action scenes too.
September 25, 2025
Ok, I read two too many books in this series. I am done. This one was confusing and poorly executed.
April 13, 2025
I’m retroactively removing a star because this book saw the 3rd reference that I’ve noticed to “Heil Hitler” (HK-88, H-8, etc.)
As with John Ringo titles I’ve read, I enjoy the science-fiction but am disgusted by the shoehorned white supremacy bullshit.
As with John Ringo titles I’ve read, I enjoy the science-fiction but am disgusted by the shoehorned white supremacy bullshit.
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