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Book one of Jay Allan's bestselling Crimson Worlds series (over 800,000 books sold)...
Erik Cain joined the Marines to get off death row. The deal wassimple; enlist to fight in space and he would be pardoned for all hiscrimes.
In the 23rd Century, assault troops go to war wearing AI-assisted,nuclear-powered armor, but it is still warriors and blood that winbattles. From one brutal campaign to the next, Erik and his comradesfight an increasingly desperate war over the resource rich colony worlds that have become vital to the economies of Earth's exhausted anddespotic Superpowers.
As Erik rises through the ranks he finally finds a home, first withthe Marines who fight at his side and later among the colonists - menand women who have dared to leave everything behind to build a newsociety on the frontier, one where the freedoms and rights lost long ago on Earth are preserved.
But causes can be fleeting, imperfect things. Amidst the blood anddeath and sacrifice, Erik begins to wonder. Is he fighting the rightwar? Who is the real enemy?
Now Included: A sneak peek at Crimson Worlds II: The Cost ofVictory. Read the first three chapters, immediately following the endof Marines in this Kindle edition.
The Crimson Worlds Series (Reading Order)
Book 1: Marines
Book 2: The Cost of Victory
Book 3: A Little Rebellion
Book 4: The First Imperium
Book 5: The Line Must Hold
Book 6: To Hell's Heart
Book 7: The Shadow Legions
Book 8: Even Legends Die
Book 9: The Fall
Standalone, Can be Read at Any Point:
Crimson Worlds War Stories (Crimson Worlds Prequels)
- Sales Rank: #529398 in Books
- Brand: Brand: System 7 Publishing
- Published on: 2012-11-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .59" w x 5.25" l, .61 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 236 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From the Author
Also by Jay Allan
The Crimson Worlds Series
Book 1: Marines
Book 2: The Cost of Victory
Book 3: A Little Rebellion
Book 4: The First Imperium
Book 5: The Line Must Hold
Book 6: To Hell's Heart
Book 7: The Shadow Legions
Book 8: Even Legends Die
Book 9: The Fall
Crimson Worlds War Stories (Crimson Worlds Prequels)
The Far Stars Series
Book 1: Shadow of Empire
Book 2: Enemy in the Dark
Book 3: Funeral Games
Far Stars Legends Series
Book 1: Blackhawk
Book 2: The Last Showdown (Coming 2017)
Crimson Worlds Successors Series
Book 1: MERCS
Book 2: The Prisoner of Eldaron
Book 3: The Black Flag (Coming 2017)
Crimson Worlds Refugees Series
Book 1: Into the Darkness
Book 2: Shadows of the Gods
Book 3: Revenge of the Ancients
Book 4: Winds of Vengeance
Book 5: Storm of Vengeance (Coming 2017)
Portal Wars Series
Book 1: Gehenna Dawn
Book 2: The Ten Thousand
Book 3: Homefront
Pendragon Chronicles
Book 1: The Dragon's Banner
About the Author
Jay Allan writes science fiction and fantasy from his home in New York City. His works include the bestselling Crimson Worlds series.
Most helpful customer reviews
71 of 83 people found the following review helpful.
Another good read to keep you up at night.
By Kippereast
I have read a lot of the low cost cost, relative to published paper books, over the past couple of years from Amazon. While there has been a reasonable amount of dreck I have not spent a large amount of money for it as I would have have purchasing a paperback. HOWEVER, this is one of the books I would have been willing to pay the paperback price for!
A derivative of Starship Troopers, as others have said, Yes, BUT different with good character back story and growth. I could go on and on, about the story, but I always hate finding out things I will read in the book, so I won't. All I will say is that if you like Military Science Fiction, hate Government control of your life, want to believe that the future of the human race is out in space, you will love this book. If you don't, I wouldn't recommend reading this.
Overall a great read, and I am really looking forward to the release of the next in the series, and also plan to read some of the author's other books.
71 of 86 people found the following review helpful.
No description, no detail, no plot, no emotion.It's almost as if the emotionless main character has none of the five senses.
By P. Hatton
This book is just flat.
If you're looking for a book that invokes no imagery or emotion, doesn't contain descriptions, but describes events in straight prose, look no further. The book is written in the first person and the main character doesn't ever mention how anything smells, tastes, what color it is, how it sounds, how it feels, or what he is feeling at the time. None of the other characters interact with the main character, with the exception of a general and a female doctor and those are just straight dialogue without any description of the scene.
There is one part of the book where the main character describes the pain of a medical treatment in a very clinical sense and it was almost like the author has never felt pain, and like renaissance artists who had never seen an elephant, the rendering is artificial and has no ring of truth.
Here is part of a description of his battalion after a large battle from about two thirds into the book: "My battalion had 540 men and women at full strength. The day we we went through the warp gate to HD 44594 we had 252 fit for duty. Sanchez was dead and Rijis was wounded and en route for Gliese, so two of the three companies were without their commanders..."
It continues the same way. No dirt, no dust, no bone weary, stressed humans who smell like they've been wearing full body armor for a week...
I cannot recommend this book.
94 of 116 people found the following review helpful.
Boring
By James Lacy
Did all of the other reviewers read the same book I did? I'm becoming convinced more and more every day that the reviews for indie books on Amazon are shill reviewers trying to pump up sales.
If I had to describe this book in only one word it would be 'boring'. The battles are boring, the characters are boring, and the whole story reads like the personal diary of a talented, but exceptionally boring Space Marine as he goes from mission to mission.
Marines (Crimson Worlds I) is the story of Erik Cain, who goes from a life of crime in the gutter of society to a soldier for a corrupt government as it wars against other super powers for control of off world colonies.
I'll give the author credit for one thing: he knows how to write a proper back story. For someone with a minor interest in Geopolitics the future history that the author created is both plausible and intriguing. A problem with a lot of military scifi is that the authors tend to either ignore the reasons why soldiers fight wars or they try to oversimplify it. The spectrum ranges from 'Down with the corporations!' to 'The socialists are invading to fund their welfare queens!' (I'm looking at you David Weber). Jay Allen writes of a complex, dystopian future where bureaucratic ineptitude, corruption, and economic stagnation has turned the Earth into a desolate world where various tyrannical superpowers are locked in a long and bitter cold war. The 'hot wars' are fought over space colonies, whose exports back to their colonial masters prop up their respective economies. America has become a fascist police state where the privileged few reign over a small middle class and vast underclass.
This complex history is the only reason this review has two stars. Somehow (and I don't know how) it manages to carry the rest of this pile of dreck forward. Unfortunately, while the back story is excellent, the *actual* story is tedious and skims over the story of a few paper thin and one dimensional characters.
First problem: Battles.
I don't read military scifi for the dialogue or complex character driven stories. I want to read riveting action scenes where the good guys defeat the bad guys. If you want complex, go read Asimov or Clarke. The author (note how I don't use the term 'writer') seems to have a good idea of what he wants his characters to do, but can't seem to write it down in a way that engages the reader or meets the (low) standards required for pulp Sci-Fi. Awkward paragraphs and dry matter-of-fact descriptions make the battle scenes read more like a series of after action reports written by a sleep deprived 2nd LT that barely passed English 101 in ROTC. I expect a little bit of this from indie authors (no editor), but I was constantly being dragged out of the story to try and figure out what he was trying to tell me.
Second problem: Characters.
Again, I don't expect complex characters from mil scifi (see Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series), however even the *main character* had absolutely no depth or motivation. All he did is go form battle to battle where everyone praised how great of a leader he was while everyone died around him. Nothing about Cain defined him from everyone else around him other than half baked philosophical notions of how the colonies were the future (or something). Later in the book, the author seems to realize this and tacks on "survivor's guilt" to try to give him some motivation. Apparently Cain feels guilty that so many of his men died, so he comes up with sound strategies so they won't get killed. That's a weak motivation. A good commander comes up with sound strategies because he is a good commander, and good commanders don't get their troops killed either because they care about them, or they consider them a valuable resource - depends on if they are good or bad guys.
If you want to get away with a flat main character and boring battles, then you at least need to have a colorful supporting cast for him to interact with, care about, and give some depth and humanity to the story (see Star Wars). Did the author do this? NOPE! Each side character is flat and uninteresting. Everyone acts pretty much the same as everyone else, except for a few personal traits that look like they were tacked on at the last moment (the Japanese space samurai likes burgers, the General/Mentor drinks a lot of expensive booze, everyone thinks that his girlfriend is hot, etc.).
Third Problem: Distance.
English majors probably have a proper word for this, but I call it `distance'. Good writers have different styles depending on how detailed they want to be about a scene and `zoom' in and out their detail level. Sometimes you want to jump long distances (either in time or space) in writing to get to the point of the story that's interesting. An example would be `After getting out of jail, Frankie caught the next train to Chicago to talk to Al Capone.' You don't really care about how Frankie went down to the train station, bought a ticket, dealt with a screaming kid on the train, used the bathroom, and was bored for the rest of the trip. You just care that he went to talk to Al Capone. A major problem that this author has is that he is zoomed out when he should be giving detail, and tends to giving excruciating detail when he really should be getting to the point.
Here's an example that also ties into the second problem mentioned earlier: Early in the book, after receiving a crippling injury, Cain is transferred to a hospital to have his injuries healed so he can return to duty. While at the hospital he gets a crush on his hot female doctor. At first I was excited that this dreary book was going to (finally) have some interesting character interaction. This has been done (successfully) in the past by other authors. It could have gone like this: Cain falls for the doc. She resists, either because she is not interested, wants to maintain professional distance, or feels that she is taking advantage of a vulnerable person. Over time after he is discharged they run into each other periodically over the course of their careers, discovering things that they have in common, growing close, and eventually having a realistic relationship. A complex interlude to the violence that occurs around Cain constantly.
Sounds good, right? Except that didn't happen. A few pages later they hook up after he gets out of the hospital, are apparently smitten with each other, and then separate due to their duties. This is all covered by half of a paragraph. Years later they are thrown back together again by the General/Mentor and apparently they have had a perfect long distance relationship in the interim. No new boyfriend for the super hottie, no growing distant, etc. Apparently this guy must be so great in the sack that girls stay smitten with him for years on end without personal contact.
I could go on and on about the problems with this book, but that's probably enough at this point. If the author learns to write good action scenes and characters he could easily be on the same level as David Drake. I'm not holding my breath though.
Verdict: Buy if you have nothing else to read. I might cough up the $4(!) to read the sequel and see if he worked out his writing issues.
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