When you're a demon hunter, you probably shouldn't invite a succubus into your bed . . . Blaze is a highly trained astral marine, fighting demons and saving lives, so he should know better than to bed his latest client. And yet, when she puts a hex on him, suddenly women find him irresistible. Even his ex-wife is eyeing him, which is a problem, because she's an evil witch. Literally. Together, Blaze and Mara form an uneasy alliance with a misfit crew of aliens and monsters to track down demons, snare ghosts, and destroy hellish creatures bent on murder--all while trying to close the gates of hell forever. There's just one problem. A demon-possessed robot has infiltrated their starship, the Lizzie Borden, and a vicious coven of stellar vampires have stranded them in a graveyard of ships at the edge of known space. All the while, the women on his crew won't leave Blaze alone! Contains mature themes.
“Robot Bangarang - (Full Frontal Galaxy #1)” is a very entertaining sci-fi book with terrific narration!
This is a fast-paced book with comic book action, great detailed descriptions (a market street on a space station, for example), lots and LOTS of laugh-out-loud humor, demons, ghosts, vampires, magic and high-tech in space. Oh, and women who enjoy women! It’s not all hetero harem!
This book is part send-up, and partly an homage to Alien, Starship Troopers, and some Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi movie I can’t remember the name of at the moment. Oh - and MC Blaze reminds me of Hans Solo, and there are many hilariously obvious ripoffs of star wars “The Force” and Yoda!
The book opens in the middle of a hetero booty call with MC Blaze; too bad he can’t remember her name. Ooops, but your normal booty call didn’t turn into perfumed purple smoke! Now he doesn’t feel so bad that he didn’t remember her name!
Some of the sci-fi details are pretty funny, such as while moving at 10x the speed of light, they look at a debris field, and notice a cracked Mr. Coffee coffee pot.
If you like science fiction with lots of action and humor - get this audiobook!!! 4.7*
Blaze never imagined how much his life would change when he decided to fight demons and save lives in the process. In his mind, he was doing his best to save the world. To give people and the various species found throughout the universe the best opportunities for survival. In the blink of an eye, his life and that of his crew are soon turned topsy-turvy. Presented with the most unexpected of situations, they must work together in vanquishing untold evils in the hopes of finally being able to live peaceful lives.
Aaron Crash has penned quite an interesting book. One where nothing is as it seems. A space opera, Robot Bangarang is not your usual story. It's full of erotic elements interspersed within scenes of battles and the characters' everyday lives. I admit this is a genre style I've never read before. Mind you, I've read space operas before, but none with erotic elements such as this one. Ironically, it works. In more ways than one, too.
Blaze and Mara are two characters who are always at each other's throats. Their animosity is palpable, yet understandable. They've been in each other's lives for so long, they know everything they need or want to know about one another. I like the fact that the author uses the characters' animosities to further branch out the story. It's a needed element, I think, in order show us their vulnerabilities and insecurities. There's never a dull moment between the two, further adding to the world that always surrounds them. Whether they'll continue to coexist remains to be seen, something we'll certainly get to see once book two rolls around, I'm sure.
Blaze is a demon hunter highly trained to save lives yet he falls prey to a succubus whom he beds and who hexes him. She makes him irresistible to woman, and one might think this is not such a bad hex however, when the women in his crew all get the hots for him things get tricky at a time when they really cannot afford to lose their concentration. Xia the archduchess of necrotechnology is hounding them down, she wants to take them out of the game but the team fight her with all their might and much more, they are relentless. This action packed paranormal soap opera comes with a harem of beautiful women, cyborg vampires and lots of demons, it is a novel full of violence and sex and therefore suitable only for a mature adult reader who does not find these things offensive. I found the battles repetitive and over the top, and the ex-wife comment became boring after a while plus that the mexican name calling was not helpful at all for readers like myself who have no clue what the words, pinche, cabron and puta mean! There is a lot of sci-fi detail some of which went over my head but for sci-fi geeks these details I am sure will go down as smooth as honey! I love the fact that when faced with nearly losing all of his crew, Blaze finally realised they really were his family.
I struggled with this book, I like Sci-fi books, I like supernatural books a bit, I also like harem setups, but this book is the craziest thing I have ever read. Necrotechnical demons, cyborg vampires, witches and a space werewolf.. oh my. The action scenes are near impossible to keep track of while trying hard to understand what the hell is going on. I like the characters which is why I stuck with the story, and it is a lot of fun, but my brains ability to visualise the characters in action broke several times while trying to figure out what was going on, and what weapons/vehicles they were using and how. Really unsure if I would read another book in this series, might depend on what else is available at the time. Really wanted to like this book as his American Dragons books are so good but I couldn’t give this mess 5 stars, maybe 3.5 if it allowed half stars.
When I saw the book at first, I was going to ignore it, but when I saw that the author was the same as American Dragons, I decided to give it a try. After reading this, I can say that while it's not fully enjoyable as Dragons, it was still enough to catch my attention, even if it had some things I did not like.
Really liked the main plot and the MC and his male crew characters, especially Fernando and Bill. As for the girls, liked Trina and Cali; and how they work well together.
What I did not like was that sometimes while reading, it felt slow or not interesting to read; Mara's character I did not like her most of the time and the worldbuilding sometimes felt confusing.
85% DNF. Blaze was such a tool. The story is fairly incoherent but I kept reading for the payoff when Blaze stops being a dick. Didn’t happen. On the plus side there’s a LOT of action. On the minus side the never ending battle gets quite tiresome. The novelty of vampires with robot legs for heads wears off long before they stop coming. I think this could have been a really good book if Blaze was nice to people sometimes, and there was a bit more of a plot. Like the ghosts and stuff could have been cool if it wasn’t so relentless. In conclusion, I really liked the Barbarian books but not much else. Please write more like that! All hail Krull and his glorious regime. Sincerely, little girl.
I'm not sure what happened, but I'm certain that I've read this book already under another title. Certainly I could do some research, but it's not that important to me so caveat emptor. [edit: the author did address this in the writeup on GoodReads if you expand the blurb]
Anyway, it was a good romp, certainly not serious literature (I've read a lot of the latter and, well that's why I read this stuff now). Space battles, demons possessing equipment, crazy weaponry, magic, and sex, it's a bit of a lot of things. It's not entirely coherent and not remotely plausible, but the characters chew the scenery effectively and it's fun overall.
Another toe dipped into the world of direct-to-Kindle schlock. Reminiscent of John Cleve's Spaceways series from the early 80s, its a hodgepodge of genre elements from a variety of science fiction and fantasy sources. When it occasionally goes for a serious moment, it's hard to know how to react, as if half of it wants to be Barbarella and half wants to be Dune. For the right reader, I could see this being spot on, but I just didn't feel it brought enough to the table.
A nice piece of writing from Crash although not in the same league as American Dragons. Harem elements are ok and the overall story takes a while to get into so this might be similar to his War God series and book 1 is more of a setting the scene. Shall checkout book 2 when it comes out as it's rare that Crash fails to deliver.
So, so, so very bad. Generally a fan of the harem/fantasy/sci-fi mashup genre, but this fell well below my (minimal) standards. I gave up at 25%. The writing was broken, the action disjointed and the mc was so painfully trite and hackneyed... but I’ll grant there was above average editing and proofreading. The author may be worth a second sniff, but this series fell short on me.
No matter how useful someone is with the dynamic of the relationship between Blaze and Mara is just not realistic. Regardless of the story the relationships and character development needs to be somewhat real. Iwill.not be reading book 2