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    Destroyermen: Crusade
    Destroyermen: Crusade
    Destroyermen: Crusade
    Audiobook16 hours

    Destroyermen: Crusade

    Written by Taylor Anderson

    Narrated by William Dufris

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    About this audiobook

    Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the U.S.S. Walker, have chosen sides in a war not of their making. They have allied with the Lemurians-a mammalian race whose peaceful existence is under attack from the warlike, reptilian Grik.

    The Lemurians are vastly outnumbered and ignorant of warfare, and even the guns and technology of Walker cannot turn the tide of battle. Luckily, they are not alone. Reddy finally finds Mahan, the other destroyer that passed through the rift. Together, the two American ships will teach the Lemurians to fight and stand against the bloodthirsty Grik-or so they think.

    For there is another vessel that does not belong on these strange seas-the massive Japanese battle cruiser Amagi, the very ship that Walker was fleeing from when the rift took them. Like Mahan, it followed them through. And now Amagi is in the hands of the Grik.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 24, 2008
    ISBN9781400178070
    Destroyermen: Crusade

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    • 5/5
      very cool, I have really enjoyed this book and the series so far, it is well written and thought out
    • 5/5
      2022, September, fantasy, alternate history,
    • 4/5
      The Plot thickens... and the war in an alternate world widens
    • 4/5
      A good second book in this alternate reality / World War II series.
    • 4/5
      The second in a series; at the end I felt like I should read/listen to #3 right away. However, I'll need a break from these characters, theme and plot. All the books are one large, long book. In this one, the pre-WWII DD meets a Japanese battle wagon, working for the lizards, that came through the same rip in reality. Although, the book is tactical reality for destroyermen, I can't help but wonder how he will treat the continuing peace that must eventually break out. Think HMS Bounty survivors?
    • 5/5
      Taylor Anderson's first novel in his Destroymen series was one of the best novels I've ever read, so the bar was set high for Crusade. Fortunately, Taylor Anderson delivered with an excellent sequel. The world he created is a fascinating one where two naval destroyers from World War II are badly damaged in a fight with a Japanese naval ship, landing in an alternate world, where they take the side with the peaceful Lemurians against the dreaded lizard creatures, the Grik. As Captain Reddy gets his crew ready for an offensive against the Grik, they discover that the Japanese vessel they had been fighting against has not only also made it into this world but is aligned with the Grik. The task before them becomes incredibly daunting, if not possible.What I liked about this novel is first, the terrific characters in the story. Anderson does an excellent job of sculpting well-defined characters, both human and Lemurians alike. There are great side-stories intermixed with the main conflict. One thing that I liked better about the sequel was that although there was some struggle, I thought things went a little too easy for the good guys in the first novel. This time the tasks they had to face were incredibly rough to the point where I had to wonder how they were going to survive in a realistic fashion. That part is still to be determined. Finally, the situation that Anderson has created is one where I found myself really pulling for the Destroyermen and the Lemurians. There were terrific fight scenes and good transitional scenes. All in all a well-done sequel definitely worth reading.Carl Alves - author of Two For Eternity
    • 5/5
      The Destroyermen of the USS Walker & Mahan are "settling-in" to their new alternate Earth. They are dealing with the evil Grik as well as getting to know the Lemurians. Taylor Anderson's Lemurian people have all the honor or flaws the same as any of the Walker crew. Actions make the "person" and in this book there is plenty of action!
    • 3/5
      In which our gallant heroes find themselves biting off more than they can chew as Matthew Reddy of the USS Walker tries to build an army and a confederation to take the fight to the saurian Grik, only to find that the Grik have made new friends too; friends who have a Rising Sun battle flag; if you've read the first book in the series you saw that one coming a mile away. If nothing else the implausible mutiny arc of the first book in the series has been cut short, for which we all give thanks. While not that great a novel, I do give the author credit for making life much more complicated for his protagonists.
    • 4/5
      At one point while reading this I was wondering when I could catch my breath, because there was no break for an end to the chapter. Then I scanned ahead, and found that these chapters were 100 pages... This is the second book, and ROC is a big publisher, but have they let their editorial staff go? The author has an idea, and a story. But he has problems.First is believability which I pointed out after the first book, these guys are going to be making and creating things way beyond their capabilities to do so. Time to go read Lest Darkness Fall, which only builds from one believable addition to the next. Or Stirling and his Island in the Sea of Time, or even the Lost Regiment series. But here, well they can really do anything and will do anything, and the original complement of US navy men will die about 3 times over, like bullets in a Stallone movie, no need to reload.Sure one can believe the men that the author does sacrifice, but when our hero is overwhelmed outside of the line of protection, he and two other very powerful figures in the story, miraculously survive. NOT! We suspend our disbelief so often, don't write stupid also. But Anderson does. Back to a criticism of the language, I previously said how impossible it would be to use Latin as the intermediary language and within days have it so that you can translate every complex thought direct to Lemurian, which humans can make the sounds. Now we have the reptilian Grik translating for the Japanese... The voracious fish, batter apart one guy in a few hours, but another guy can be down under water for a great deal longer fixing the prop and he gets of alright.An Editor should have sat down with the author and said some of this is working, but the rest, the genre has assumptions and this shows in amateur way how Anderson is breaking them. Again back to Lest Darkness Falls. It is a classic not because it is so old, but because you can't poke holes in the science the way this one is sinking under them.The last mistake that Anderson makes is speechifying. Most people don't give speeches. Those that do, it is hard to keep track of key points to say without reflecting on notes. Try it. Anderson's heroes can have long soliloquies of speechifying. Which then leads us to Tell and don't show, because there are two states in which he writes, long speechs, or long paragraphs of exposition. Good action, lousy writing. Middling book for a read only once.
    • 4/5
      This series is very interesting. The characters within the book continue to be expanded on and the reading is very entertaining.
    • 3/5
      It was not so long ago that authors were satisfied with sending just one (un)lucky person under mysterious circumstances to another time/planet /parallel universe where they had to make do on their own. Now whole hordes of people are transported to all these various places or times. I suppose this allows for more complicated plot lines—not to mention all the additional possibilities for expository dialog. Crusade (the second of a series) is an entertaining variation on the formula. Here the transported are a mix of World War II naval personnel along with some nurses and a few others on two beat up WWI era destroyers. The Americans and their allies, the Lemurians, are fighting a take-no-prisoners war with a dinosaurian race called the Grik. In this installment they must confront not just the Grik but treachery from their own side and the discovery that the Japanese battleship Amagi has also made the jump to this alternate reality and the Japanese are fighting with the Grip. Pretty much non-stop action.