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Helltroopers: A Paranormal Space Marine Adventure
Strap on your power armor and get ready to fight like hell.
Ash Wednesday and his crew of corporate space marines take work as bounty hunters tasked with taking down the deadly fugitive named Simon Haddo, a mad scientist with an occult obsession and the most infamous terrorist in the system. As they track him through the depths of a gruesome space station the mercs of Team Omega soon find themselves drawn into a galactic conspiracy bent on creating a literal hell on earth in this violent sci-fi remix of Dante's Divine Comedy.
*This omnibus edition collects the novels Inferno Station, Fortress Purgatory, and Starship Paradiso.
Ash Wednesday and his crew of corporate space marines take work as bounty hunters tasked with taking down the deadly fugitive named Simon Haddo, a mad scientist with an occult obsession and the most infamous terrorist in the system. As they track him through the depths of a gruesome space station the mercs of Team Omega soon find themselves drawn into a galactic conspiracy bent on creating a literal hell on earth in this violent sci-fi remix of Dante's Divine Comedy.
*This omnibus edition collects the novels Inferno Station, Fortress Purgatory, and Starship Paradiso.
360 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 3, 2017
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August 30, 2018
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"Enough with the symbols, people"
Helltroopers is, as the author explains in a preface, a modern science fiction reinventing of Dante's original hell book, Inferno and as such proceeds in a slightly different way from most action stories today. The reader follows Ash and his Omega Team from the independent gun ship Thelma in their pursuit of a long disappeared mass murderer named Haddo with the assistance of a mysterious woman, believed to be an android, who joined their ship at the completion of their last mission to destroy some space pirates. The Corporation job had seemed to be virtually impossible but the money was far too good to turn down. The Team would come to regret their acceptance of the mission. Landing on the asteroid which is Inferno Station, they make their way through various hellish layers, constantly fighting to stay alive.
The book is action packed as Team Omega try to apprehend their quarry. Each team member is nicely introduced with background information but thereafter there is little further character development. Fortunately, narrator Persephone Rose is able to breath life into the individuals with a distinctive voice for each as well as for the additional characters, such as Char, the ship's AI, the talking head from the Corporation and the enigmatic newcomer, Barbara Ann. The performance is excellent with the text read with feeling and enthusiasm, well paced and pleasant to hear. It is this narration which, for this reader, drove the story forward. Occasional sound effects also add to the atmosphere.
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My thanks to the rights holder of Helltroopers who, at my request, freely gifted me a complimentary copy, via Audiobook Boom. Exciting action but something doesn't feel quite right, possibly because it's a modern treatment of Dante's Divine Comedy.
"Enough with the symbols, people"
Helltroopers is, as the author explains in a preface, a modern science fiction reinventing of Dante's original hell book, Inferno and as such proceeds in a slightly different way from most action stories today. The reader follows Ash and his Omega Team from the independent gun ship Thelma in their pursuit of a long disappeared mass murderer named Haddo with the assistance of a mysterious woman, believed to be an android, who joined their ship at the completion of their last mission to destroy some space pirates. The Corporation job had seemed to be virtually impossible but the money was far too good to turn down. The Team would come to regret their acceptance of the mission. Landing on the asteroid which is Inferno Station, they make their way through various hellish layers, constantly fighting to stay alive.
The book is action packed as Team Omega try to apprehend their quarry. Each team member is nicely introduced with background information but thereafter there is little further character development. Fortunately, narrator Persephone Rose is able to breath life into the individuals with a distinctive voice for each as well as for the additional characters, such as Char, the ship's AI, the talking head from the Corporation and the enigmatic newcomer, Barbara Ann. The performance is excellent with the text read with feeling and enthusiasm, well paced and pleasant to hear. It is this narration which, for this reader, drove the story forward. Occasional sound effects also add to the atmosphere.
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My thanks to the rights holder of Helltroopers who, at my request, freely gifted me a complimentary copy, via Audiobook Boom. Exciting action but something doesn't feel quite right, possibly because it's a modern treatment of Dante's Divine Comedy.
October 2, 2018
Wow! This was unlike anything I've listened to before, and I enjoyed it a lot!
Fun action-packed story kept me interested from start to finish - well written by Isaac Stone and beautifully narrated by one of my favorites, Persephone Rose.
Helltroopers! I don't know much of Dante's work to comment on the comparison, but loved it just the same :)
It's one hell of a ride, enjoy it! :)
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Fun action-packed story kept me interested from start to finish - well written by Isaac Stone and beautifully narrated by one of my favorites, Persephone Rose.
Helltroopers! I don't know much of Dante's work to comment on the comparison, but loved it just the same :)
It's one hell of a ride, enjoy it! :)
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
October 19, 2018
Definitely a very different take on Dante’s inferno it has quite a bit of interesting twists and turns. A crew is tasked with finding a man that’s wanted by the corporation but they will have to go through literal hell to find him. Is this man what the corporation say he is or is he something different? There are parts I think could have been left out and some threads that could have been tied together better. I received this book by my request but all views are my own.
February 25, 2018
What a different ride through the levels Mr. Stone’s crew of characters go through to end an evil universe.
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